Cars, trucks, and buses spew more than 12 billion pounds of cancer-causing and ozone-depleting air pollution each year.... posted on Oct 15 2001, 586 reads

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The world's population is growing - at the waist. For the first time in history, there may be as many people overweight, 1.1 billion, as underfed.... posted on Oct 13 2001, 517 reads

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What I Would Say to Osama bin Laden: Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh talks about how listening is the first step towards peace. Interview by Anne A. Simpkinson:... posted on Oct 11 2001, 2,379 reads

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In 2000, U.S. household contributed almost $144 billion, nearly 75% of the total amount donated to public charities. Most of this individual giving came from those who could least afford it: people with household income of less than $30,000/year.... posted on Oct 09 2001, 433 reads

Roughly 100 million girls and women have undergone some form of female genital mutilation, and every year an additional 2 million are estimated.... posted on Oct 08 2001, 396 reads

Multitasking is a managerial buzz-concept these days, a post-layoff corporate assumption that the few can be made to do the work of many. But newly released results of scientific studies in multitasking indicate that carrying on several duties at once may, in fact, reduce productivity, not increase it.... posted on Oct 07 2001, 532 reads

110 million landmines remain in the ground of 68 countries.... posted on Oct 06 2001, 1,168 reads