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Gordon Brown has found his loophole in Afghanistan.

Green jobs are starting to move to China.

Al Gore says that environmentalists must protest.

Forget oil, the world is facing ‘peak water‘.

Being green is about self-interest.

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You can only buy gossip at the hyper-market.

The spectre of David Hasselhoff is haunting Germany.

Facebook costs people days of their lives.

The future of forestry may be building with whole trees.

Globalisation is so 2006.

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De Tocqueville’s letters home make good field notes for Democracy in America.

Marketers think that the beer we drink says a lot about our personalities. 

Hopes for a treaty at the coming Copenhagen conference are receding.

In the UK, a judge has ruled that political beliefs are akin to religion.

Why shouldn’t humour be offensive?

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In Colorado, a programme wants to save farms by playing matchmaker.

In the UK, plans are in place to bring consumerism to academe.

In Peru, the Nazca were brought-down by deforestation.

Fiji isn’t getting-along with Australia and New Zealand.

Boris Johnson is a bicycle vigilante.

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Claude Lévi-Strauss is dead.

With the Czechs signed-on, the EUs Lisbon Treaty is now law.

America is closing-in on another ‘Vietnam moment‘.

In America, Climate change legislation is being held up for a ‘cost analysis‘.

With time, communism will be seen as a morality tale.

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The future of media may be immersion.

Literature gives good travel advice.

Guerrilla marketers are starting to take hostages.

In New Mexico, Los Alamos is toxic for the Rio Grande.

In Madagascar, a recently identified species of spider has a unique diet.

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In California, the environment and commerce don’t mix well at Point Reyes.

In Yemen, a lot of the country’s water is diverted to grow a drug.

Mickey Mouse is now an action hero.

Is it a surprise that Tony Blair is arrogant?

In Upstate New York, Republican politics is getting weird.

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It’s el Día de los Muertos.

Vélib′, Paris’ cycle-sharing programme, is a model of incivility.

Buskers are the vanguard of the advertising world.

In the UK, a Yorkshire nunnery is going green.

Germany wants to protect online journalism.

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Obama may end America’s ban on HIV+ foreign nationals.

In the UK, a state pension fund wants to invest in the environment.

People need to stop exaggerating about climate change.

Israel is warming to the ideal of nuclear deal with Iran.

Libraries may just be for the history books.

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In America, the recession may be over.

America’s power grid will be getting more green.

And American politicians are getting more serious about green legislation.

Greenwashing follows the travels of wealth.

The internet has been around for forty years.

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In the UK, members of parliament won’t change how they do business.

Also in the UK, Coronation Street is becoming a brand.

The future of business is conversation?

The American Census is getting good at reading people’s minds.

East German brands are alright.

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In Wyoming, the governor says that energy policy is not a state matter.

Bollywood has found a place in American cinema.

The media made it easy for celebrities to be burglarised.

Promoting conformity is an effective way to reduce energy use.

Obama wants little to do with business lobbies.

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What some people call community, others call fascism.

In the Philippines, birth control is a hot political issue.

Jarvis Cocker is getting the band back together.

In this economy: McDonald’s has gone-off Iceland.

Archeaology is the search for identity.

 

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Lithium may change Bolivia’s fortunes.

In Colorado, ‘agriburbia’ is growing.

In the UK, surveillance has no purpose.

Environmental activists have settled on a number.

The Black Panthers always make for a good story.

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Nuclear disarmament might be a cliche.

To stop crime, the EU wants to monitor people’s behaviour.

Marketing endorsements are about to get automated.

No one knows what happened to the Russian ship Arctic Sea.

In Japan, the economy is threatened by debt.

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In Texas, one journalist’s beat is executions.

In America, a new marketing campaign wants to change the essentials.

Media companies want to be subsidised.

Folks are already pessimistic about the Copenhagen climate talks.

Twitter may be changing how protest happens.

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A Goldman Sachs executive says the public must ‘tolerate inequality‘.

Everything’s alright with Oprah and Sarah Palin.

In the UK, Labour’s new platform will still be heavy on the Fear.

In America, the Obama administration will allow Arctic oil exploration.

In this economy: Brand loyalty only goes so far.

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In America, the legacy of the Cold War is toxic.

In Vietnam, golf courses are draining natural resources.

Even large corporations like using slack-space.

Who is Jack Kerouac?

The universe is tied-up with a ribbon.

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Social media can make ‘planned serendipity’ happen.

What is the purpose of political science?

Obama’s written word says the most about how he sees the world.

Quebecois players face a diminishing future in the National Hockey League.

‘Girls toys’ aren’t as popular as they used to be.

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Cities around the world want to ‘Copenhagenise‘.

Open-pit mines take-on another dimension.

An ‘ethical’ stem cell crop has been farmed.

Some researchers think that age five is too young to start school.

In Stockholm, rabbits are the centre of an odd debate about energy.

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Unlike the jet pack, the e-reader’s time may have come.

In the American West, aspen trees aren’t doing so well.

Renewable energy projects often fragment fragile land.

In Alberta, conservative political parties are blooming.

Texas is a police state.

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The CIA makes it too easy to believe in conspiracies.

In Palestine, Hamas is learning to be pragmatic.

Databases and libraries are the future of secrets.

American-style political fear is getting hysteric.

In televised politics, the media controls the message.

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In Rio de Janeiro, a gang shot down a police helicopter.

In the UK, Royal Mail has surrogate employees.

Also in the UK, the Met Police maintain an image database of protestors.

Vladimir Putin is envious of the Chinese Communist Party.

Nobody really likes the idea of Tony Blair being the President of the EU.

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In Canada, a truth and reconciliation commission has a second life.

Japan’s new government wants to break the grip of central planners.

In this economy: Stimulus kept the wealthy in their place.

The environmental effect of biofuels is not fully understood.

For listening enjoyment, music can be decoded and reverse-engineered.

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Radioactive rabbits wander the American West.

Environmental regulation isn’t cheap.

American military contractors have to change how they do business.

In the UK, Channel 4 is set to broadcast on YouTube.

People aren’t as good at washing their hands as they should be.