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Not the America of Thomas Jefferson
Let’s hope this is temporary, but many of characteristics that made America great seem to be…
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The coup in Mauritania and Islam in sub-Saharan Africa
The coup in Mauritania has had very little attention in the world’s media, but it raises…
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Sudan after Garang
From Sleepless in Sudan – a moving and very readable blog recording life in a Sudanese…
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Could you negotiate with al Qaeda?
The latest statement from Ayman al-Zawahri, broadcast by al-Jazeera on 4 August, does not support the…
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Looking for a lover?
I was strangely fascinated by this posting by a woman who is looking for a “travel…
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Famine is not usually caused by the absence of food
In 1987, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen showed that many famines are not caused by…
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San Francisco Marathon
Grethe and I ran the San Francisco Marathon yesterday. This was a training run for both…
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Fructose and obesity
I am increasingly confident that processing of foods, especially the addition of sweeteners such as HFCS,…
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Customers don’t know what they will want
Quentin Stafford-Fraser debunks the idea that businesses (or the IT shops of a business) should be…
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Recycle your bike
So it sounds as if everyone in London has taken to their bikes since the terrorist…
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