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Bushmeat is one of the central crises, which is occurring in our population right now, in humanity, on this planet.— Nathan Wolfe's jungle search for viruses
Russell Miller provides a sympathetic account of his subject's spiritualist crises, and asks: had Conan Doyle dabbled in mediums and moonshine before The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901, would the fire-breathing beast really have come from the Beyond, as we are at first led to believe?— The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Fallout from housing, credit and financial crises -- the worst since the 1930s -- is forcing companies to lay off workers and resort to other cost-saving measures to survive the recession.
Rather than discussing and producing real political measures to tackle the world's many crises, the Security Council is proliferating forms of expression, unnecessarily complicating its already-opaque communication with the world.— open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
"As in all economic crises, there is a need for international coordination," he pointed out, emphasising the special role of the EU in this direction.— Greek News

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