European countries need to set up a "massive" refugee resettlement programme, the head of the UN refugee agency says.
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Month: December 2015
Why Mormons identify with Syrian refugees
They were religious exiles once too.
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The food desert of the north
Despite living in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, the majority of homes Canada's Nunavut territory suffer from chronic food insecurity. Without relief in sight, survival sometimes comes down to killing a narwhal.
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Raw: Sydney Rings in 2016
Thousands of people gathered in Sydney to celebrate the start of 2016 with a spectacular fireworks display at the city's harbor. (Dec. 31)
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Why did China hold a cremation competition?
Earlier this week the Chinese government hosted an unusual competition. More than 50 of the country's best battled it out to be crowned the country's top cremator.
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A 900-pound elephant seal shut down Highway 37 because she could
As soon as I heard about her, I was in love: the 900-pound elephant seal who shut down Highway 37 in Sonoma County, northeast of San Francisco. Elephant seals have no natural predators; they pretty…
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The Opium Wars, Neoliberalism, and the Anthropocene
David Palumbo-Lui interviews prolific Bengali author Amitav Ghosh
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The Importance of Being Orwell
In his introduction to a volume of George Orwell’s diaries, the late Christopher Hitchens dissected one of the 20th century’s finest political minds. (July ’12)
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Sun, surf and skin: Australian depictions of the beach
On the Beach brings together 76 works reflecting the diversity of Australian stories on sandy, sea-washed shores
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A History of Violence, The International Terrain of Murder
Going back to my post yesterday about the US murder rate, I wanted to go back and consider the regional and international terrain. As we've discussed before, there really is no such thing as a US murder rate. The US has always had a few geographically distinct murder rates. Murder in New England for instance is not that much more common than it is in Western Europe, whether today or 25 years ago. But the South has always had dramatically higher murder rates than the rest of the country.
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