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Fight Poverty
UN Millennium Development Goals
More are hungry despite world leaders' pledge
Feeding the World
Video: The Future of Food
Reimagining Socialism
The brutal truth about America's healthcare
What's Wrong With American Medicine?
Dumped in Africa: Britain’s toxic waste
The Outcry Is Muted, But The Food Crisis Is Getting Worse
For India's real slumdogs, dream of a better life is not just something in the movies
With all these trillions, how can we keep hold of the meaning of money?
•Multinationals make billions in profit out of growing global food crisis
•What a waste: Britain throws away £10bn of food every year
•In Egypt, Upper Crust Gets the Bread
•Wars in Africa wipe out aid gains
•The looming food crisis
•Global food crisis looms as climate change and population growth strip fertile land
•Oil Price Rise Causes Global Shift in Wealth
•Can India close the wealth gap?
•Katrina Aid Goes Toward Football Condos
• Millions 'live in modern slavery'
• Dispute Tears at Mumbai: House the Rich, or the Poor?
• Mandela calls for action on 'unnatural' poverty
• Millions to link up for world's poor
• World Death Toll Of a Flu Pandemic Would Be 62 Million
• World Social Forum opens in Kenya
• Climate resets 'Doomsday Clock'
• Poverty: Will this be the year we make a difference?
• The Persistently Poor
• Nobel laureate: Poverty fight essential
• Poverty, inequities major global challenges
• The richest 2 per cent of adults own more than half the world’s wealth
• Africa sinks deeper into despair as famine worsens
• Children 'failed' over nutrition
• Bush's Fake Aid
• Darfur terror chief slips into Britain
• Africa pledges 'not materialised'
• Benn challenges west to fund African NHS
• World AIDS Day
• Somalis die of thirst in drought
• India launches anti-poverty plan
• Africa's hunger - a systemic crisis
• Darfur Descending. No Time for Apathy
• What Is Charity?
• Women's health fuelling poverty
• Inequality 'key to poverty fight'
• U.N. Adopts Modest Goals on Reforms and Poverty
• World 'ignores' Niger food crisis
• Can G8 be considered a success?
• World poverty must be cut
• Fight poverty not wars
• The changing face of poverty
• Hungry Kids, Greedy Farmers
• The Rich Get Richer
• Niger's children continue dying
• Warning over 'worsening' UK ghettos
• Ways to change the world
• Can aid do more harm than good?
• The world has turned away - but Darfur's misery goes on
• Search aims to aid world poverty
• How Britain fails the dying
• One in six countries facing food shortage
• Mandela calls for action on 'unnatural' poverty
• Richest Are Leaving Even the Rich Far Behind
• Why Bush is Wrong on Poverty
• CHARITIES ARE FOR SUCKERS
• The Real Costs of a Culture of Greed
• The Rich Get Richer
• Broth without bread
• Remember the Poor
• The Silent Disaster of World Poverty
• Can world poverty be eradicated?
• Human activities 'threaten Earth'
• Blair urges 'quantum leap' on aid to Africa
• Raise taxes to aid poor, UN tells Brown
• Poverty, inequities major global challenges
• Venezuela's president warns Third World against free market policies
• Fat cats' pay is the result of greed, not competition
• For poor, hard times get harder
• Dispute Tears at Mumbai: House the Rich, or the Poor?
• Millions to link up for world's poor
• Brazil's 'slave' ranch workers
• My Big Fat C.E.O. Paycheck
• Global aid 'failing poor nations'
• Challenge to improve Aborigines' lot
• Can the world deliver for Africa?
• Failing to meet UN millennium goals
• Supermarket Giants Crush Central American Farmers
• If America Is Richer, Why Are Its Families So Much Less Secure?
• Bombay Moves to Push Out the Poor
• Children 'starving' in new Iraq
• An Embarrassing Display of Riches
•Feed the world? We are fighting a losing battle, UN admits
•Assessing the global food crisis

Medicine & Health
The brutal truth about America's healthcare
What's Wrong With American Medicine?
When Doctors and Nurses Can’t Do the Right Thing
Hysteria over cannabis is getting in the way of truth
•Drug giants warned: Tell the truth on medicines
•America's Chemically Modified 21st Century Soldiers
•Cigarette Company Paid for Lung Cancer Study
•Call for an end to malaria death
•Canada Takes Steps to Ban Most Plastic Baby Bottles
•Poison Pill
•Euthanasia: a continent divided
•Cannabis 'should remain class C'
•Scientists probe meditation secrets
•Cigarette Company Paid for Lung Cancer Study
•Arthritis drug gets approval
•A clump of cells? Or a living being with a soul?
•When the Disease Eludes a Diagnosis
•The Case for Another Drug War, Against Pharmaceutical Marketers’ Dirty Tactics
•Many Doctors, Many Tests, No Rhyme or Reason
•Tap Water Has Traces of Medicines
•5 Medical Tests That May Keep You Well
•When People Drink Themselves Silly, and Why
•Drug giants warned: Tell the truth on medicines
•Ernst Jaffé, 83, Expert on Red Blood Cells, Dies
•Consequences of GM crop contamination 'are set to worsen'
•i-Snake 'will transform surgery'
•Virus Starts Like a Cold But Can Turn Into a Killer
•Scientists Cure Mice Of Sickle Cell Using Stem Cell Technique
•From Smoking Boom, a Major Killer of Women
•Is Yoga Overstretched?
•Five Easy Ways to Go Organic
•Arthritis
•The battle for ayurveda: India is racing to record the details of its traditional medicine
•Tips for safer drinking
•Are Antimicrobial Soaps Breeding Tougher Bugs?
•Merck Agrees to Pay $4.85 Billion in Vioxx Claims
•What is transcendental meditation, and is it the cure for society's ills?
•Clues to Why We Dream at All
•No pain, no gain
•Expensive and divisive: how America is losing patience with a failing system
•Have You Eaten Your Genetically Modified Food Today?
•First world results on a third world budget
•Some Food Additives Raise Hyperactivity
• The greatest catastrophe
• Aids drug plan faces collapse
• Why We Know Painfully Little About Dying
• Playing With Viruses
•So, What Made Me an Addict?
•Do We Really Know What Makes Us Healthy?
•Eat, drink and be merry – you can ignore this unhealthy obsession with obesity

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	Fight Poverty UN Millennium Development Goals More are hungry despite world leaders' pledge Feeding the World Video: The Future of Food Reimagining Socialism The brutal truth about America's healthcare What's Wrong With American Medicine? Dumped in Africa: Britain’s toxic waste The Outcry Is Muted, But The Food Crisis Is Getting Worse For India's real slumdogs, dream of a better life is not just something in the movies With all these trillions, how can we keep hold of the meaning of money? •Multinationals make billions in profit out of growing global food crisis •What a waste: Britain throws away £10bn of food every year •In Egypt, Upper Crust Gets the Bread •Wars in Africa wipe out aid gains •The looming food crisis •Global food crisis looms as climate change and population growth strip fertile land •Oil Price Rise Causes Global Shift in Wealth •Can India close the wealth gap? •Katrina Aid Goes Toward Football Condos • Millions 'live in modern slavery' • Dispute Tears at Mumbai: House the Rich, or the Poor? • Mandela calls for action on 'unnatural' poverty • Millions to link up for world's poor • World Death Toll Of a Flu Pandemic Would Be 62 Million • World Social Forum opens in Kenya • Climate resets 'Doomsday Clock' • Poverty: Will this be the year we make a difference? • The Persistently Poor • Nobel laureate: Poverty fight essential • Poverty, inequities major global challenges • The richest 2 per cent of adults own more than half the world’s wealth • Africa sinks deeper into despair as famine worsens • Children 'failed' over nutrition • Bush's Fake Aid • Darfur terror chief slips into Britain • Africa pledges 'not materialised' • Benn challenges west to fund African NHS • World AIDS Day • Somalis die of thirst in drought • India launches anti-poverty plan • Africa's hunger - a systemic crisis • Darfur Descending. No Time for Apathy • What Is Charity? • Women's health fuelling poverty • Inequality 'key to poverty fight' • U.N. Adopts Modest Goals on Reforms and Poverty • World 'ignores' Niger food crisis • Can G8 be considered a success? • World poverty must be cut • Fight poverty not wars • The changing face of poverty • Hungry Kids, Greedy Farmers • The Rich Get Richer • Niger's children continue dying • Warning over 'worsening' UK ghettos • Ways to change the world • Can aid do more harm than good? • The world has turned away - but Darfur's misery goes on • Search aims to aid world poverty • How Britain fails the dying • One in six countries facing food shortage • Mandela calls for action on 'unnatural' poverty • Richest Are Leaving Even the Rich Far Behind • Why Bush is Wrong on Poverty • CHARITIES ARE FOR SUCKERS • The Real Costs of a Culture of Greed • The Rich Get Richer • Broth without bread • Remember the Poor • The Silent Disaster of World Poverty • Can world poverty be eradicated? • Human activities 'threaten Earth' • Blair urges 'quantum leap' on aid to Africa • Raise taxes to aid poor, UN tells Brown • Poverty, inequities major global challenges • Venezuela's president warns Third World against free market policies • Fat cats' pay is the result of greed, not competition • For poor, hard times get harder • Dispute Tears at Mumbai: House the Rich, or the Poor? • Millions to link up for world's poor • Brazil's 'slave' ranch workers • My Big Fat C.E.O. Paycheck • Global aid 'failing poor nations' • Challenge to improve Aborigines' lot • Can the world deliver for Africa? • Failing to meet UN millennium goals • Supermarket Giants Crush Central American Farmers • If America Is Richer, Why Are Its Families So Much Less Secure? • Bombay Moves to Push Out the Poor • Children 'starving' in new Iraq • An Embarrassing Display of Riches •Feed the world? We are fighting a losing battle, UN admits •Assessing the global food crisis Medicine & Health The brutal truth about America's healthcare What's Wrong With American Medicine? When Doctors and Nurses Can’t Do the Right Thing Hysteria over cannabis is getting in the way of truth •Drug giants warned: Tell the truth on medicines •America's Chemically Modified 21st Century Soldiers •Cigarette Company Paid for Lung Cancer Study •Call for an end to malaria death •Canada Takes Steps to Ban Most Plastic Baby Bottles •Poison Pill •Euthanasia: a continent divided •Cannabis 'should remain class C' •Scientists probe meditation secrets •Cigarette Company Paid for Lung Cancer Study •Arthritis drug gets approval •A clump of cells? Or a living being with a soul? •When the Disease Eludes a Diagnosis •The Case for Another Drug War, Against Pharmaceutical Marketers’ Dirty Tactics •Many Doctors, Many Tests, No Rhyme or Reason •Tap Water Has Traces of Medicines •5 Medical Tests That May Keep You Well •When People Drink Themselves Silly, and Why •Drug giants warned: Tell the truth on medicines •Ernst Jaffé, 83, Expert on Red Blood Cells, Dies •Consequences of GM crop contamination 'are set to worsen' •i-Snake 'will transform surgery' •Virus Starts Like a Cold But Can Turn Into a Killer •Scientists Cure Mice Of Sickle Cell Using Stem Cell Technique •From Smoking Boom, a Major Killer of Women •Is Yoga Overstretched? •Five Easy Ways to Go Organic •Arthritis •The battle for ayurveda: India is racing to record the details of its traditional medicine •Tips for safer drinking •Are Antimicrobial Soaps Breeding Tougher Bugs? •Merck Agrees to Pay $4.85 Billion in Vioxx Claims •What is transcendental meditation, and is it the cure for society's ills? •Clues to Why We Dream at All •No pain, no gain •Expensive and divisive: how America is losing patience with a failing system •Have You Eaten Your Genetically Modified Food Today? •First world results on a third world budget •Some Food Additives Raise Hyperactivity • The greatest catastrophe • Aids drug plan faces collapse • Why We Know Painfully Little About Dying • Playing With Viruses •So, What Made Me an Addict? •Do We Really Know What Makes Us Healthy? •Eat, drink and be merry – you can ignore this unhealthy obsession with obesity		Arms Race Arms Race in Space U.S. OKs record $2.1 billion arms sale to India •Invisible arms race: The internet balance of power •BAE faces criminal inquiry in US over £1bn payments • Saudi prince 'was paid UK arms cash' • BAE profits soar to more than £1bn • BAE's secret $12m payout in African deal • Lebanese billionaire in BAE arms deal inquiry • The parallel universe of BAE: covert, dangerous and beyond the rule of law • Global military spending soars • Car firms facing pollution curbs • BAE's secret £1m to Pinochet • MI5 unmasks covert arms programmes • The global group that 'runs the world' • Weapons Sales Worldwide Rise to Highest Level Since 2000 • G8 'still sells arms to regimes' • Third of MoD arms sale unit works for Saudis • UK firm accused of £16m arms bribe Special report The arms trade Useful links Campaign Against Arms Trade Control Arms campaign site Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Federation of American Scientists Carnegie Endowment for International Peace saferworld.org.uk Wisconsin Project Foreign Policy magazine • The spoils of another war • Are We in World War IV? More Coverage • Poverty • Poverty is a threat to peace • The Most Wonderful Time Of the Year, for Germs, Too • World braced for huge surge in bird flu cases War Blair gave secret pledge to Bush on Iraq war Christians Excusing War Progressive Think Tank Tells Obama to Escalate in Afghanistan – Why? The Economic Cost of War Bush Turned Military Into Propaganda Machine The childhoods blighted by war A decisive loss for Israel How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas Education •The controversy of intelligence theories How the web is undermining reading ?Higher Learning Adapts To a Greening Attitude •Louisiana’s Latest Assault on Darwin •A revolution in teaching promises the solution to dyslexia Philosopht & Religion 3 Silly Religious Beliefs Held By Non-Silly People Reimagining Socialism Christians Excusing War The False Idol of Unfettered Capitalism Science is just one gene away from defeating religion Behold! The Jewish Jesus Why Belief Isn't That Different for Atheists or Religious People Why Atheism May Be the Best Way to Understand God We're Witnessing the Return of Religion as a Principle Cause of Warfare Interview: Rowan Williams •Is religion a threat to rationality and science? •Master of his universe: an interview with Stephen Hawking •On the Origin of Species •It is possible to be moral without God •God and the multiverse •What does a free society require of believers and non-believers alike? •The atheists' revolt •Logical Path from Religious Beliefs to Evil Deeds •The Subtle, Lethal Poison of Religion • The God Racket, From DeMille to DeLay • Christian Right Educating America • Church ends taboo on mercy killings • Christian ideals and Republican policies •Is sex outside of marriage a sin? Is it a public matter? Is it forgivable? •Euthanasia: a continent divided Miscellaneous Is there any point in fighting to stave off industrial apocalypse?	Climate Changes World's top firms cause $2.2tn of environmental damage Industrialised nations' carbon cut plans 'are pathetic' Human Behavior, Global Warming, and the Ubiquitous Plastic Bag Global Warming: If we behave as if it's too late, then our prophecy is bound to come true Water - another global 'crisis'? Living on thin ice In a single year, the Arctic lost an area the size of Alaska 'We have only four years left to act on climate change 20 big green ideas Jatropha-fuelled plane touches down after successful test flight •Bali Conference: Diplomats warned that climate change is security issue, not a green dilemma •50 years on: The Keeling Curve legacy •How to save the planet •Scientists warn Arctic sea ice is melting at its fastest rate since records began •Chill out. Stop fighting over global warming -- here's the smart way to attack it. •How Africa's desert sun can bring Europe power •Rich nations fail to honour climate pledge •Experts warn of 'abrupt' warming •Human Behavior, Global Warming, and the Ubiquitous Plastic Bag •Forest Loss in Sumatra Becomes a Global Issue •Kyoto is a hard, but not impossible, act to follow • Kyoto protocol comes into force •What single breakthrough would best advance the fight against climate change? •Where death by water is part of daily life •Climate - You're Getting Warmer •The future of the world, in 23 pages •Which is the most vital ecosystem? •Car industry balks at emission targets •Tackling the fossil fuel juggernaut •Global food crisis looms as climate change and fuel shortages bite •Forests losing the ability to absorb man-made carbon •Study Details How U.S. Could Cut 28% of Greenhouse Gases •How the World Bank is damaging the planet and punishing the poor •A Climate Meeting With Nobel Laureates •Shipping pollution 'far more damaging than flying' •The Amazon burns once again •Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts •At Climate Meeting, Bush Does Not Specify Goals •World Bank's record $3.5bn pledge •Mali’s Farmers Discover a Weed’s Potential Power •The Earth today stands in imminent peril • Rebuffing Bush, 132 Mayors Embrace Kyoto Rules •How to save the planet •If we all Tread lightly we can make a difference • High Court Rebukes Bush on Car Pollution • Portugal opens major solar plant • How Europe can save the world • Al Gore makes global warming plea • "'Don't discuss polar bears": memo to scientists • EU agrees renewable energy target • All Creatures Great, Small ...and Endangered • U.S. Policies Are Undermining Global Stability • Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study • Top Scientists Warn of Water Shortages and Disease Linked to Global Warming • EU agrees renewable energy target • China Says Rich Countries Should Take Lead on Global Warming • World Scientists Near Consensus on Warming • World faces hottest year ever, as El Niño combines with global warming • Forests Hold Fateful Role in Climate Change • 'Now or never' for climate action • It may be too late to save the ice caps • Annan Faults ‘Frightening Lack of Leadership’ for Global Warming • Climate change is expensive. Does that help? • Asia's greenhouse gas 'to treble • Climate change catching voter attention around world • On the Climate Change Beat, Doubt Gives Way to Certainty • Humans 'causing stronger storms' • Heat makes Pat Robertson a global warming "convert" • The Climate-Change Precipice • Big Conference on Warming Ends, Achieving Modest Results • Annan Faults ‘Frightening Lack of Leadership’ for Global Warming • Climate change is as serious as WMD • Africa focus for climate summit • If Environmentalists Cared About Global Warming ... • Climate: At Humanity’s Doorstep • Climate campaigners urge action • Climate costs: The next generation • Carbon emissions show sharp rise • Greenhouse gases hit record high • 'Only 50 years left' for sea fish • Climate change fight 'can't wait' • Global warming 'threat to growth' • Climate change 'hitting Africa' • Tackle climate change or face deep recession, world's leaders warned • War Climates • Climate change: US economist's grim warning • Global Warming Study Predicts Wild Ride • How Government flights pumped out 1,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide • Earth's temperature is dangerously high, Nasa scientists warn • World moves into ecological overdraft today •Challenges to Both Left and Right on Global Warming •Which is the most vital ecosystem? Science & Environment World's top firms cause $2.2tn of environmental damage Human Behavior, Global Warming, and the Ubiquitous Plastic Bag Is there any point in fighting to stave off industrial apocalypse? Global Warming: If we behave as if it's too late, then our prophecy is bound to come true Dumped in Africa: Britain’s toxic waste Water - another global 'crisis'? Living on thin ice In a single year, the Arctic lost an area the size of Alaska 'We have only four years left to act on climate change It's 200 years since the birth of Charles Darwin – the story of Darwin's private agony 20 big green ideas Recycling – From east to west, a chain collapses Jatropha-fuelled plane touches down after successful test flight •An epidemic of extinctions: Decimation of life on earth •Fears for Brazil rainforest after environment minister quits •Apocalypse in the Oceans •Caring or cruel? Inside the primate laboratory •The world must end its addiction to oil •An epidemic of extinctions: Decimation of life on earth •World carbon dioxide levels •The Defining Moment for Climate Change •Neither fish nor fowl: Platypus genome decoded •Breeding toxins from dead PCs •A Woman, a Village and a War on Plastic Bags •Climate change could force 1 billion from their homes by 2050 •Humans •The universe •Is religion a threat to rationality and science? •Biologists join the race to create synthetic life •Who's Best for Earth? That Would Be Me. •Solar so good for our house •Darwin's private papers online •'Now we have the technology that can make a cloned child' •The miracle in Madagascar – a blueprint for saving species •'Breakthrough' at Stonehenge dig •A very cold war indeed •American songbirds are being wiped out by banned pesticides •A Science Event for the Masses in New York •The great carbon con: Can offsetting really help to save the planet? •Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens in White Plains •Food crisis will take hold before climate change •Buried Seed Vault Opens in Arctic •Motorists urged to adopt greener driving practices •Scientists Measure What It Takes to Push a Single Atom •Consequences of GM crop contamination 'are set to worsen' •Why Darwin matters •Solar energy 'revolution' brings green power closer •SCIENTIST AT WORK \| SHINYA YAMANAKA •Risk Taking Is in His Genes •Climate Talks Take on Added Urgency After Report •After Stem-Cell Breakthrough, the Work Begins •Skin transformed into stem cells •Tapping a Tree’s Potential as a Source of Energy •In DNA Era, New Worries About Prejudice •Why a kilogram no longer weighs the same as it used to • Planet under pressure • Unique Costa Rica rainforest at risk •Q&A: Carbon offsetting •The great global coal rush puts us on the fast track to irreversible disaster •The rubbish that blights the land •Carbon Output Must Near Zero To Avert Danger •Why the white wilderness needs our care •Cities switch off for environment •UN chief calls for review of biofuels policy •The Green Issue •Brazil president defends biofuels •Texas veteran sets up $10bn clean energy project •Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Dioxide And Methane, Rise Sharply In 2007 •Climate change could force 1 billion from their homes by 2050

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