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Eyes on Guatemala

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The Economist has published an article on malnutrition in Guatemala. Hunger is not new in the country, with half of the children population not eating enough...

Human Rights in Guatemala

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has published the Annual Report 2008 on Guatemala. And hardly could have been worse. Last year murder r...

Wars in the Backyard

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The National Security Archive has just declassified eleven documents on the extra judicial arrests conducted 25 years ago by the government of Guatemala. It ...

Crisis from the South /3

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The Inter-American Development Bank publishes today on its web-site previsions for remittance flows in 2009 to Latin America: they will go down for the first...

Truth, finally. Maybe

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Guatemalan newspaper La Hora affirms that, for the first time, the  government will hand to the ministerio público (attorney general) the military archives r...

Crisis from the South

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According to Banco de Guatemala, for the first time since 1999, in January 2009 remittances from abroad decreased by 7.75% compared to the same month in 2008...

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Abbott: Strange as it may seem, they give ball players nowadays very peculiar names.

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All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing...

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Brain matters

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Saying that education strengths economic growth sounds good old common sense. But proving and measuring this relation is not immediate and therefore interest...

Crisis from the South

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According to Banco de Guatemala, for the first time since 1999, in January 2009 remittances from abroad decreased by 7.75% compared to the same month in 2008...

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Back into Poverty

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Increase in food prices has pushed back into poverty at least 100 million people in 2008 and, according to the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition...

WikiPrices

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Let’s try to imagine how a platform to collect and share market price information could work in a country where 46% of the children are malnourished and 80% ...

Information Flows on Mobiles

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The idea to use mobile phones (here and here) to help economic development in the most remote corners of the world is fascinating and definitely smart. For o...

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remittance

Crisis from the South /3

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The Inter-American Development Bank publishes today on its web-site previsions for remittance flows in 2009 to Latin America: they will go down for the first...

Crisis from the South

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According to Banco de Guatemala, for the first time since 1999, in January 2009 remittances from abroad decreased by 7.75% compared to the same month in 2008...

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Back into Poverty

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Increase in food prices has pushed back into poverty at least 100 million people in 2008 and, according to the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition...

Crisis from the South

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According to Banco de Guatemala, for the first time since 1999, in January 2009 remittances from abroad decreased by 7.75% compared to the same month in 2008...

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Wars in the Backyard

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The National Security Archive has just declassified eleven documents on the extra judicial arrests conducted 25 years ago by the government of Guatemala. It ...

Truth, finally. Maybe

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Guatemalan newspaper La Hora affirms that, for the first time, the  government will hand to the ministerio público (attorney general) the military archives r...

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Crisis from the South /3

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The Inter-American Development Bank publishes today on its web-site previsions for remittance flows in 2009 to Latin America: they will go down for the first...

Crisis from the South /2

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And it appears that the  problem is not just limited to remittances. According to The Institute of International Finance, private financial flows from rich c...

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Information Flows on Mobiles

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The idea to use mobile phones (here and here) to help economic development in the most remote corners of the world is fascinating and definitely smart. For o...

Brain matters

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Saying that education strengths economic growth sounds good old common sense. But proving and measuring this relation is not immediate and therefore interest...

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Detained and Dismissed

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Human Rights Watch has just published a detailed report on Women’s Struggles to Obtain Health Care in United States Immigration Detention. Immigration detent...

Wars in the Backyard

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The National Security Archive has just declassified eleven documents on the extra judicial arrests conducted 25 years ago by the government of Guatemala. It ...

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Eyes on Guatemala

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The Economist has published an article on malnutrition in Guatemala. Hunger is not new in the country, with half of the children population not eating enough...

Understanding Capitalism

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Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen argues, in an article published on The New York Review of Books, that the way out from the crisis passes through a better...

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Information Flows on Mobiles

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The idea to use mobile phones (here and here) to help economic development in the most remote corners of the world is fascinating and definitely smart. For o...

Understanding Capitalism

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Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen argues, in an article published on The New York Review of Books, that the way out from the crisis passes through a better...

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WikiPrices

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Let’s try to imagine how a platform to collect and share market price information could work in a country where 46% of the children are malnourished and 80% ...

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All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing...

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All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing...

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Crisis from the South

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According to Banco de Guatemala, for the first time since 1999, in January 2009 remittances from abroad decreased by 7.75% compared to the same month in 2008...

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Truth, finally. Maybe

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Guatemalan newspaper La Hora affirms that, for the first time, the  government will hand to the ministerio público (attorney general) the military archives r...

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Truth, finally. Maybe

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Guatemalan newspaper La Hora affirms that, for the first time, the  government will hand to the ministerio público (attorney general) the military archives r...

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Truth, finally. Maybe

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Guatemalan newspaper La Hora affirms that, for the first time, the  government will hand to the ministerio público (attorney general) the military archives r...

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Truth, finally. Maybe

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Guatemalan newspaper La Hora affirms that, for the first time, the  government will hand to the ministerio público (attorney general) the military archives r...

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Truth, finally. Maybe

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Guatemalan newspaper La Hora affirms that, for the first time, the  government will hand to the ministerio público (attorney general) the military archives r...

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Crisis from the South /2

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And it appears that the  problem is not just limited to remittances. According to The Institute of International Finance, private financial flows from rich c...

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Crisis from the South /2

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And it appears that the  problem is not just limited to remittances. According to The Institute of International Finance, private financial flows from rich c...

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Brain matters

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Saying that education strengths economic growth sounds good old common sense. But proving and measuring this relation is not immediate and therefore interest...

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Brain matters

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Saying that education strengths economic growth sounds good old common sense. But proving and measuring this relation is not immediate and therefore interest...

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Brain matters

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Saying that education strengths economic growth sounds good old common sense. But proving and measuring this relation is not immediate and therefore interest...

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Crisis from the South /3

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The Inter-American Development Bank publishes today on its web-site previsions for remittance flows in 2009 to Latin America: they will go down for the first...

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Wars in the Backyard

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The National Security Archive has just declassified eleven documents on the extra judicial arrests conducted 25 years ago by the government of Guatemala. It ...

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Wars in the Backyard

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The National Security Archive has just declassified eleven documents on the extra judicial arrests conducted 25 years ago by the government of Guatemala. It ...

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Detained and Dismissed

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Human Rights Watch has just published a detailed report on Women’s Struggles to Obtain Health Care in United States Immigration Detention. Immigration detent...

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Detained and Dismissed

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Human Rights Watch has just published a detailed report on Women’s Struggles to Obtain Health Care in United States Immigration Detention. Immigration detent...

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Detained and Dismissed

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Human Rights Watch has just published a detailed report on Women’s Struggles to Obtain Health Care in United States Immigration Detention. Immigration detent...

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Detained and Dismissed

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Human Rights Watch has just published a detailed report on Women’s Struggles to Obtain Health Care in United States Immigration Detention. Immigration detent...

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Detained and Dismissed

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Human Rights Watch has just published a detailed report on Women’s Struggles to Obtain Health Care in United States Immigration Detention. Immigration detent...

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Understanding Capitalism

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Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen argues, in an article published on The New York Review of Books, that the way out from the crisis passes through a better...

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crisis

Understanding Capitalism

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Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen argues, in an article published on The New York Review of Books, that the way out from the crisis passes through a better...

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Understanding Capitalism

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Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen argues, in an article published on The New York Review of Books, that the way out from the crisis passes through a better...

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Understanding Capitalism

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Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen argues, in an article published on The New York Review of Books, that the way out from the crisis passes through a better...

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Human Rights in Guatemala

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has published the Annual Report 2008 on Guatemala. And hardly could have been worse. Last year murder r...

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Human Rights in Guatemala

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has published the Annual Report 2008 on Guatemala. And hardly could have been worse. Last year murder r...

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Human Rights in Guatemala

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has published the Annual Report 2008 on Guatemala. And hardly could have been worse. Last year murder r...

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Information Flows on Mobiles

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The idea to use mobile phones (here and here) to help economic development in the most remote corners of the world is fascinating and definitely smart. For o...

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Information Flows on Mobiles

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The idea to use mobile phones (here and here) to help economic development in the most remote corners of the world is fascinating and definitely smart. For o...

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Information Flows on Mobiles

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The idea to use mobile phones (here and here) to help economic development in the most remote corners of the world is fascinating and definitely smart. For o...

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Information Flows on Mobiles

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The idea to use mobile phones (here and here) to help economic development in the most remote corners of the world is fascinating and definitely smart. For o...

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Information Flows on Mobiles

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The idea to use mobile phones (here and here) to help economic development in the most remote corners of the world is fascinating and definitely smart. For o...

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Information Flows on Mobiles

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The idea to use mobile phones (here and here) to help economic development in the most remote corners of the world is fascinating and definitely smart. For o...

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Information Flows on Mobiles

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The idea to use mobile phones (here and here) to help economic development in the most remote corners of the world is fascinating and definitely smart. For o...

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Information Flows on Mobiles

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The idea to use mobile phones (here and here) to help economic development in the most remote corners of the world is fascinating and definitely smart. For o...

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Hard Numbers, Hard Times

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In a report published today, Oxfam predicts that by 2015 the average number of people affected by climate-related disasters every year will increase by 54%. ...

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Hard Numbers, Hard Times

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In a report published today, Oxfam predicts that by 2015 the average number of people affected by climate-related disasters every year will increase by 54%. ...

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Hard Numbers, Hard Times

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In a report published today, Oxfam predicts that by 2015 the average number of people affected by climate-related disasters every year will increase by 54%. ...

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Hard Numbers, Hard Times

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In a report published today, Oxfam predicts that by 2015 the average number of people affected by climate-related disasters every year will increase by 54%. ...

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WikiPrices

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Let’s try to imagine how a platform to collect and share market price information could work in a country where 46% of the children are malnourished and 80% ...

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WikiPrices

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Let’s try to imagine how a platform to collect and share market price information could work in a country where 46% of the children are malnourished and 80% ...

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WikiPrices

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Let’s try to imagine how a platform to collect and share market price information could work in a country where 46% of the children are malnourished and 80% ...

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WikiPrices

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Let’s try to imagine how a platform to collect and share market price information could work in a country where 46% of the children are malnourished and 80% ...

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WikiPrices

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Let’s try to imagine how a platform to collect and share market price information could work in a country where 46% of the children are malnourished and 80% ...

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WikiPrices

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Let’s try to imagine how a platform to collect and share market price information could work in a country where 46% of the children are malnourished and 80% ...

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albania

The Dirt Floats

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The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...

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The Dirt Floats

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The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...

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The Dirt Floats

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The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...

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The Dirt Floats

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The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...

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The Dirt Floats

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The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...

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The Dirt Floats

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The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...

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The Dirt Floats

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The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...

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The Dirt Floats

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The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...

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The Dirt Floats

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The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...

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The Dirt Floats

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The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...

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The Dirt Floats

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The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...

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The Dirt Floats

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The Kosovo Liberation Army (Albanian acronym UÇK) supposedly run, during the conflict of 1999, torture camps in northern Albania. According to an investigati...

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Economic Gains Do Not Mean Political Gains

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In this post Dani Rodrik explains why trade theories suggest that the U.S. should liberalize trade for agricultural products (especially cotton and sugar) an...

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Economic Gains Do Not Mean Political Gains

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In this post Dani Rodrik explains why trade theories suggest that the U.S. should liberalize trade for agricultural products (especially cotton and sugar) an...

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Economic Gains Do Not Mean Political Gains

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In this post Dani Rodrik explains why trade theories suggest that the U.S. should liberalize trade for agricultural products (especially cotton and sugar) an...

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Economic Gains Do Not Mean Political Gains

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In this post Dani Rodrik explains why trade theories suggest that the U.S. should liberalize trade for agricultural products (especially cotton and sugar) an...

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Economic Gains Do Not Mean Political Gains

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In this post Dani Rodrik explains why trade theories suggest that the U.S. should liberalize trade for agricultural products (especially cotton and sugar) an...

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Economic Gains Do Not Mean Political Gains

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In this post Dani Rodrik explains why trade theories suggest that the U.S. should liberalize trade for agricultural products (especially cotton and sugar) an...

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artificial-intelligence

On the Evolution of Thinking

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What if we are becoming the very same Artificial Intelligence that we are trying to design? The doubt has has been raised by Nicholas Carr in an article publ...

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On the Evolution of Thinking

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What if we are becoming the very same Artificial Intelligence that we are trying to design? The doubt has has been raised by Nicholas Carr in an article publ...

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On the Evolution of Thinking

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What if we are becoming the very same Artificial Intelligence that we are trying to design? The doubt has has been raised by Nicholas Carr in an article publ...

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On the Evolution of Thinking

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What if we are becoming the very same Artificial Intelligence that we are trying to design? The doubt has has been raised by Nicholas Carr in an article publ...

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On the Evolution of Thinking

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What if we are becoming the very same Artificial Intelligence that we are trying to design? The doubt has has been raised by Nicholas Carr in an article publ...

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Back into Poverty

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Increase in food prices has pushed back into poverty at least 100 million people in 2008 and, according to the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition...

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Back into Poverty

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Increase in food prices has pushed back into poverty at least 100 million people in 2008 and, according to the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition...

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Back into Poverty

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Increase in food prices has pushed back into poverty at least 100 million people in 2008 and, according to the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition...

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Eyes on Guatemala

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The Economist has published an article on malnutrition in Guatemala. Hunger is not new in the country, with half of the children population not eating enough...

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Eyes on Guatemala

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The Economist has published an article on malnutrition in Guatemala. Hunger is not new in the country, with half of the children population not eating enough...

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Eyes on Guatemala

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The Economist has published an article on malnutrition in Guatemala. Hunger is not new in the country, with half of the children population not eating enough...

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Eyes on Guatemala

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The Economist has published an article on malnutrition in Guatemala. Hunger is not new in the country, with half of the children population not eating enough...

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Eyes on Guatemala

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The Economist has published an article on malnutrition in Guatemala. Hunger is not new in the country, with half of the children population not eating enough...

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Post: Chat

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Abbott: Strange as it may seem, they give ball players nowadays very peculiar names.

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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. Mark Twain

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Explicit semantic analysis with R

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Explicit semantic analysis (ESA) was proposed by Gabrilovich and Markovitch (2007) to compute a document position in a high-dimensional concept space. At the...

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Explicit semantic analysis with R

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Explicit semantic analysis (ESA) was proposed by Gabrilovich and Markovitch (2007) to compute a document position in a high-dimensional concept space. At the...

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Explicit semantic analysis with R

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Explicit semantic analysis (ESA) was proposed by Gabrilovich and Markovitch (2007) to compute a document position in a high-dimensional concept space. At the...

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Explicit semantic analysis with R

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Explicit semantic analysis (ESA) was proposed by Gabrilovich and Markovitch (2007) to compute a document position in a high-dimensional concept space. At the...

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m5s

Cosa possiamo imparare dal M5S

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Leggo e rispondo al post di Massimo Mantellini (Il M5S, il wifi e il principio di precauzione) in cui si evidenzia con preoccupazione come il Movimento abbia...

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