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CONTINUUM AN ASIAN FOR UN SECRETARY-GENERAL?
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IT is again time for choosing the next secretary-general of the United Nations. This is really like choosing the leader, the overall manager of a very large organization-the UN system. However, since the selection concerns a very influential organization composed of the nations of the world, it is not just a matter of professional competence, outstanding experience and personal integrity although all these things are important qualifications, but also of wide international acceptability and e...
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Where has all the water gone? The world's water crisis poses grave threats to our survival. Can we change course?
The American Prospect
; THREE SCENARIOS COLLUDE TOWARD disaster. Scenario one: The world is running out of freshwater. It is not just a question of finding the money to hook up the 2 billion people living in water-stressed regions of our world. Humanity is polluting, diverting, and depleting the Earth's finite water
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Oly: Olympic village how the world should be, Abdi says
AAP General News (Australia)
; Oly: Olympic village how the world should be, Abdi says By Charisse Ede BEIJING, Aug 19 AAP - After escaping death in war-torn Kenya, Australian athlete Youcef Abdi wishes the whole world was like the Olympic athletes' village. Abdi was training in Kenya when violence erupted and he had to bunker
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Protecting the Pristine Waters Of the World's Oldest Lake; Activists Battle to Prevent Increase in Pollution, Crowding
The Washington Post
; The world's oldest, deepest and biggest freshwater lake is growing warmer, dirtier and more crowded. Lyubov Izmestieva is charting these insidious changes. Marina Rikhvanova is fighting them. And the fate of one of the world's rarest ecosystems, a turquoise jewel set in the vast Siberian taiga,
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Lightning Bolt seizes the world in ultimate one-man fast show
The Independent - London
; Michael Phelps was being enshrined as the greatest Olympian of all time around about the time Usain Bolt surfaced yesterday to face a world he had not so much thrilled as mesmerised. There was the difference. It was the one between a man who had become a pillar of sport over a number of years of
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THE WORLD AWAITS A NEW LEGEND
Belfast Telegraph
; WHEN the three fastest men in the world came into the Birds Nest stadium yesterday the morning sunshine was brighter than at any other time in these 29th Olympics. The shadows were in the mind. They will stay there, Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay knew as well as anyone on earth as they
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