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Afghanistan: Snakes

Jude Emantsal — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:13:12 +0000

This post originally appeared on the World Development Report 2011 blog on January 5, 2010.

Forward Operating Base Delhi, Garmsir District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan–December 7

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Chelsea Clinton: Hudson Valley Girl? And A Vegan, Too!

Jude Emantsal — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:10:44 +0000

Chelsea Clinton is so definitely getting married in Rhinebeck this weekend. All the signs point to it–like the one two miles down the road from Astor Courts (the presumed wedding locale), which reads “Chelsea and Marc–congratulations from Rhinecliff’s Morton Memorial Library! Stop in for your wedding gift–your own free-for-life library card!!!”

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Haiti: Double tragedy

Jude Emantsal — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:54:29 +0000

This post originally appeared on the World Development Report 2011 blog on January 22, 2010.

I visited Haiti just before Christmas with Nik Win Myint from the WDR team. I talked to community groups in some of the slums that have been most ravaged by drugs and gang-related violence–Cite de Soleil, Martissant, Bel-air.

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The Yemen Challenge

Jude Emantsal — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:40:04 +0000

This guest post was written by David Craig and originally appeared on the World Development Report 2011 blog on February 9, 2010.

January’s High Level Donor Meeting on Yemen in London reminded the international community once more that we have to support this country in need.

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Mormons See Potential In Online Proselytizing

Jude Emantsal — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:20:56 +0000

By Peggy Fletcher Stack

Religion News Service

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Shirley Sherrod: ‘I Will Not Give Fox An Interview, Period’

Jude Emantsal — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:06:49 +0000

Shirley Sherrod has a simple answer for the Fox News producers begging her for an interview: Too late.

“I will not give Fox an interview, period. They had their chance to get the truth, and they were not interested,” Sherrod told the National Association of Black Journalists’ convention in San Diego, according to Richard Prince of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education.

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The F Word: Lost Billions in Iraq

Jude Emantsal — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:52:47 +0000

If public schools or Medicare providers were held to the same standards as military contractors, they’d never have to beg for cash. Need money? Sure! — Congress would say — what’s a few missing billions of tax dollars?

Congress agreed to pump an extra $33 billion into Afghanistan this week, even as a new report revealed that almost nine billion earmarked for the nation’s other occupation — Iraq — simply, it seems, went missing.

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Unemployed, Uninsured: Newly Jobless Struggle To Get Health Care

Jude Emantsal — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:51:06 +0000

Americans across the country are cutting back on health care services, including doctor’s visits and elective surgeries, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The new trend comes amid a broader drop in health-care use as more Americans lose their jobs and their health insurance. Such cutbacks have happened before in recessions, but the drop seems to be more pronounced this time, industry analysts say.

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HUFFPOST HILL – JULY 29TH, 2010

Jude Emantsal — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:32:11 +0000

With the August recess quickly approaching it looks like Congress won’t be able to pass the ~~comprehensive energy reform~~ oil spill bill before September. There was, however, enough time for a House panel to drop 13 ethics charges on veteran Rep. Charlie Rangel and, less significantly, for a group of senators to voice their concerns about Red Bull vodkas. Those of you upset by legislative inaction could learn a thing or two from the eternally upbeat Rand Paul, who is turning lemons (decimated mountains) into lemonade (strip malls?). This is HUFFPOST HILL for Thursday, July 29th, 2010:

EXCLUSIVE: OIL, DISPERSANTS FOUND DEEP IN GULF FOOD CHAIN – So much for the emerging narrative that the BP spill wasn’t a big deal. Scientists tell HuffPost’s Dan Froomkin that they’ve found signs of an oil-and-dispersant mix under the shells of “almost all” of the tiny blue crab larvae collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the first clear indication that the unprecedented use of dispersants in the BP oil spill has broken up the oil into toxic droplets so tiny that they can easily enter the food chain. The orange blobs have been spotted all the way from Grand Isle, Louisiana, to Pensacola, Fla. — more than 300 miles of coastline — said Harriet Perry, a biologist with the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Coast Research Laboratory.

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Tim Tebow Signs With Broncos After Brief Holdout

Jude Emantsal — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:22:53 +0000

Tim Tebow is a training camp holdout no more. The first round draft pick of the Denver Broncos agreed to a 5-year, up-to 33 million-dollar deal with the team on Thursday.

The deal means Tebow will be ready to join his teammates on the first official day of training camp on August 1, where he will start as the third string quarterback.

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