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"The globe's reservoir of glaciers is retreating rapidly," Purves told me last week at our hotel in Lake Louise.
Robert Lenzner: 500 Million People Will Be Displaced By the Melting Glaciers in Greenland and the Himalyas Robert Lenzner 2011
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An international turf battle over the top job at the globe's emergency lender broke out after Dominique Strauss-Kahn announced his resignation late Wednesday amid allegations that he sexually assaulted a New York hotel housekeeper.
Europe and Asia Battle Over IMF Post Sudeep Reddy 2011
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The British are infected by the same culture, but we don't have the excuse of being the globe's dominant power and of occupying a continent.
Why do we continue to isolate ourselves by only speaking English? | Will Hutton 2012
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"The globe's reservoir of glaciers is retreating rapidly," Purves told me last week at our hotel in Lake Louise.
Robert Lenzner: 500 Million People Will Be Displaced By the Melting Glaciers in Greenland and the Himalyas Robert Lenzner 2011
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The globe's new nouveau riche are going to Mexico to vacation, taking vodka to Veracruz and kung pao to Cancun.
Amid Murders, Mexico Quietly Thrives John Bussey 2012
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Independent investigations of possible extrajudicial killings and refuge from repression for fleeing individuals serve to illustrate to the globe's serial human rights abusers that the international human rights system guarantees the rights of everyone, even those people who exist in the shadows of others.
Henryk Szadziewski: 2011: The Uyghur Human Rights Year in Review Henryk Szadziewski 2012
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China, which surpassed the US earlier this year as the globe's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, has taken some steps in recent years to curb industrial pollution, but its growing dependence on coal may doom these efforts to fail, barring a massive and costly conversion to alternative energy sources in the years ahead.
Richard Schiffman: The World's Deadliest Profession: Coal Miners Pay for China's Economic Miracle Richard Schiffman 2012
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China, which surpassed the US earlier this year as the globe's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, has taken some steps in recent years to curb industrial pollution, but its growing dependence on coal may doom these efforts to fail, barring a massive and costly conversion to alternative energy sources in the years ahead.
Richard Schiffman: The World's Deadliest Profession: Coal Miners Pay for China's Economic Miracle Richard Schiffman 2012
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China, which surpassed the US earlier this year as the globe's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, has taken some steps in recent years to curb industrial pollution, but its growing dependence on coal may doom these efforts to fail, barring a massive and costly conversion to alternative energy sources in the years ahead.
Richard Schiffman: The World's Deadliest Profession: Coal Miners Pay for China's Economic Miracle Richard Schiffman 2012
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"The globe's reservoir of glaciers is retreating rapidly," Purves told me last week at our hotel in Lake Louise.
Robert Lenzner: 500 Million People Will Be Displaced By the Melting Glaciers in Greenland and the Himalyas Robert Lenzner 2011
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