Newswire: World
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- Mark Porubcansky of Los Angeles Times linked first on March 18, 2010 at 4:08PM EDT
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- Projection of populations by level of educational attainment, age, and sex for 120 countries for 2005-2050
- Demographic Research
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- Pete Basofin of The Sacramento Bee linked first on March 17, 2010 at 5:15PM EDT
- Pete said: "Using demographic multi-state, cohort-component methods, we produce projections for 120 countries (covering 93% of the world population in 2005) by five-year age groups, sex, and four levels of educational attainment for the years 2005-2050."
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- Tony Hake of Examiner.com linked first on March 17, 2010 at 12:53PM EDT
- Tony said: International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief Rajendra Pachauri faced renewed questions about the agencies work and calls for his resignation. At a conference in India, Pachauri was swarmed by reporters and termed the recent errors found in the group’s reports as ‘one mistake.’
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- Pete Basofin of The Sacramento Bee linked first on March 16, 2010 at 8:41PM EDT
- Pete said: "PARIS is the most expensive city to live in according to the latest survey from Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister company to The Economist."
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- Antoine Craigwell of AntoineB-Media linked first on March 16, 2010 at 1:25PM EDT
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- Report: Petraeus wants West Bank, Gaza responsibility: General’s CENTCOM vision may become hot-button issue during testimony on Hill
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- John Dunlevy of Chicago Reader linked first on March 15, 2010 at 5:38PM EDT
- John said: "Currently, the West Bank and Gaza fall under the watch of the Stuttgart, Germany-based U.S. European Command."
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- John Dunlevy of Chicago Reader linked first on March 15, 2010 at 4:20PM EDT
- John said: "Facing mounting criticism over a hoax television broadcast claiming a Russian invasion, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has climbed down from his initial defense of the report."
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- John Dunlevy of Chicago Reader linked first on March 15, 2010 at 2:05PM EDT
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- British government’s global warming ads banned for false warning of extreme weather
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- Tony Hake of Examiner.com linked first on March 15, 2010 at 8:53AM EDT
- Tony said: Scare tactic newspaper advertisements from Britain’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have been banned by a government advertising watchdog agency. Two ads in a series which used child nursery rhymes to warn about the purported dangers of manmade climate change were found to have unsubstantiated claims in them.
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- John Dunlevy of Chicago Reader linked first on March 14, 2010 at 11:46AM EDT
- John said: "'It was an insult, but that's not the most important thing,' [David] Axelrod added, saying that the move was disruptive to upcoming proximity talks with the Palestinians and that the approval during Biden's visit 'seemed calculated to undermine that, and that was - that was distressing to everyone who is promoting the idea of peace and security in the region.'"
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