Archive for the ‘world’ Category

More Choice for Women Means More Sustainability

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Robert Engelman, Vice President at the Worldwatch Institute, in his new book More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want Suggests that expanding the capacity of all women to choose when to bear children is thus the surest route to achieving an environmentally sustainable population.Read the full story

Snipers in Iraq

Friday, May 9th, 2008

In 2007 elite U.S. snipers executed an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in cold blood. Have the insidious tactics that led to atrocities in Vietnam reemerged in Iraq? Pressure to raise enemy death counts in an attempt to show that the U.S. is 'winning' the war, maybe causing murder of innocent ...