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Pakistan Philanthropist Cares For Karachi's Forgotten
(Audio - streaming) Abdul Sattar Edhi has personally washed tens of thousands of corpses that he has rescued from gutters, beneath ...via NPR -
Anne Frank guardian reaches 100
The last surviving member of the group who helped hide the Jewish girl Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis in ...Posted by Leo Romero -
New African-American history course stretches student minds
Pittsburgh Oliver High School teacher Ken Smith doesn't want students to take history; he wants them "doing ...Posted by Dale Penn
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In good we trust
The Bay Area is inventing things again—not television or silicon chips or massive online auctions or the locavore ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Globally-Engaged Education
If you visit northern Uganda during the summer, you're likely to notice the surplus of young Americans running ...Posted by Fabrice Florin
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Imagining Newspapers of the Future
Re “News You Can Endow,” by David Swensen and Michael Schmidt (see link), which says endangered newspapers can ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
News You Can Endow
Today, we are dangerously close to having a government without newspapers. American newspapers shoulder the burden ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Bill Gates on the future of aid
The financial crisis may have an impact on aid, but individuals can be better risk takers than their governmentsPosted by Derek Hawkins
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Outside Activism, Reconsidered
The American Prospect asked six individuals working on post-Katrina recovery to discuss how their organizations are ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Tolerance and the Internet
That the evolution of social networking, mobiles and the web in general leads to more self-referential, insular and ...Posted by Fabrice Florin
