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A Jane Goodall Thanksgiving

Michael Winship | Posted 11.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Religion, Gombe National Park, Jane Goodall, Creationism, Louis Leakey, Thanksgiving, Environment, Conservation, Evolution, Habitat, Tanzania, Chimpanzees, Sarah Palin, "Roots for Shoots, Bill Moyers, Tarzan, "Jane Goodall Institute, Thanksgiving Commentary, Entertainment News
Michael Winship

My Thanksgiving list this year includes Jane Goodall, who was interviewed by my colleague Bill Moyers for this week's edition of Bill Moyers Journal on PBS.

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Abortion Activists Reach Rural Tanzania

Diana Whitten and Anita Schillhorn van Veen | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

Read More: Abortion, Womens Rights, Abortion Laws, Activism, Abortion Rights, Health, Africa, Women on Waves, Tanzania, Womens Health, Healthcare, Vessel, World News
Diana Whitten and Anita Schillhorn van Veen

Women on Waves employs often radical methods to increase global awareness and access to safe abortion, with a focus on medical abortion using the drug misoprostol.

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Mount Kilimanjaro Snow Cap Is Disappearing

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Kilimanjaro Glaciers, U.S. National Science Foundation, Rwenzori Mountains, Snow Cap, Africa, Snows of Kilimanjaro, Lonnie Thompson, Tanzania, African Mountains, Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya, National-Oceanic-and-Atmospheric-Administration, Mt Kilimanjaro, Kilimanjaro Snow Cap, Green News

WASHINGTON — The snows of Kilimanjaro may soon be gone. The African mountain's white peak – made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway –...

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Tanzanian Schoolkids Tweet Their Thanks For Global Donations

Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.23.2009 | Impact

Read More: Social Media, Thank You, Tanzania, Twitter, Epic Change, School, Tweetsgiving, Impact News

This week, in the Moivaro village of Arusha, Tanzania, in the shadow of Mt. Meru, a group of schoolkids discovered Twitter. A year ago, Shepherds Juni...

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Albinos In Tanzania Being Hunted For Their Body Parts For Witchcraft (VIDEO)

Posted 10.20.2009 | World

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The United Nations has a horrifying video report about how albinos in Tanzania are being hunted in order to harvest their body parts. Albinos there h...

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Today in History - Oct. 14

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 10.15.2009 | Home

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— Today is Wednesday, Oct. 14, the 287th day of 2009. There are 78 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Oct. 14, 1939, during World War II, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the HMS Royal Oak, a British battleship anchored at Scapa Flow in Scotland's Orkney Islands; 833 of the more than 1,200 men aboard were killed.

On this date:

In 1066, Normans under William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings.

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Getting Away to Zany Zanzibar

Lisa Haisha | Posted 09.30.2009 | Style

Read More: Zanzibar, Tanzania, Travel, Destinations, Travel Get Aways, Exotic Travel, Africa, Style News
Lisa Haisha

My travel companion and I were stoked and primed for an exuberant weekend getaway. But our wild weekend turned out to be nothing more than hopeful mental window dressing.

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Eco Skyscrapers: Green Architecture Reaches For The Sky

WebEcoist | Steph | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Toronto, Mexico City, Moma, Vancouver, Green Building, Architecture, International Sustainable City, La Tour Vivante, New York City, Dubai, Eco Skyscrapers, Green Architecture, Green Technology, Green News, Sustainability, Tanzania, Amsterdam, Pyramid Farm, Green News

With a burgeoning global population that has ever-growing needs for both food and housing, many architects are looking up for sustainable solutions th...

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Tanzania School Fire Kills 12 Girls

AP | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

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ARUSHA, Tanzania — A fire that ripped through a dormitory in rural Tanzania, killing 12 schoolgirls and wounding 23 others, likely began after a...

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Broadband In Tanzania Opens East Africa To Outsourcing Possibilities

Global Post | Posted 09.19.2009 | World

Read More: Africa, Africa Online, Internet Tanzania, Broadband Africa, Internet Africa, Tanzania Broadband, Outsourcing Africa, Tanzania, Outsourcing, Tanzania Economy, Africa Economy, World News

Eamon Kircher-Allen | GlobalPost DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania -- Ramadhan Mubarak shook his head as he gestured to his six forlorn PCs. "I believe that...

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Ten Days In Tanzania: What Africa Taught Me (Photos) (Video)

Martha McCully | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Maasai, Lion, Zebra, Serengeti, African, Impala, Africa, &Beyond Foundation, East Africa, Tanzania, Africa Foundation, East African, Slidehuge, Living News
Martha McCully

Picture this: Twelve women from New York, Aspen and Palm Beach sleeping "under canvas" on the Serengeti, sharing two vehicles, one Ranger and roughly 30 meals...There were no Bergdorf Blondes on this trip. More like Tanzanian Trekkers.

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Africa's Albinos Killed Without Remorse

GlobalPost | Posted 09.07.2009 | World

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BOSTON -- Up two flights of stairs in a musty apartment in central Madrid is where an African man with a face as white as chalk has placed his hope fo...

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10 of Nature's Tiniest Animals (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 08.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Endangered Animals, Kangaroo Rat, Hedgehog, National Geographic, Weird Animals, Legless Lizard, Slidepoll, Green, Endangered Species List, Animals, Mouse Lemur, Red Eyed Tree Frog, Tiny Animals, Small-Eared Shrew, Tiny Mandarin Fish, Madagascar, Slideshow, Tanzania, Endangered Species, Togian White-Eye Bird, Kihansi Spray Toad, Pika, Cute Animal Pictures, Cute Animals, Green News

We here at HuffPost Green love to celebrate nature's diversity but this collection of creatures are united by their miniature dimensions. Flip through...

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Exchange student neglect leads to calls for reform

AP | MICHAEL RUBINKAM | Posted 08.16.2009 | Home

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During his year as a foreign exchange student in the United States, 18-year-old Carlos Villarreal lived not with a welcoming family, but with two ex-convicts in a seedy house that smelled of dog feces where the food was labeled "DO NOT TOUCH." He left 14 pounds lighter.

Villarreal, a Colombian, had signed up for a pricey study-abroad program that promised an "unforgettable year" in America. What he and many other exchange students in northeastern Pennsylvania got instead was a year filled with shabby treatment bordering on abuse. "I just wanted it to end," he says.

The situation in the Scranton region has rocked the U.S. foreign exchange establishment, raising questions about checks and balances that are supposed to keep students safe and their stays positive.

While the U.S. government says most of the students go home happy, critics say weak regulatory oversight, combined with shoddy industry practices and a shortage of qualified host families, have led to neglect and mental, physical and sexual abuse.

The problems have been documented around the country:

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Embassy Bombing Widow "Relieved" By Guantanamo Detainee Trial

ABC News | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo-Detainee-Trial, Guatanamo, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, Abdurrahman Abdullah, u.s. Embassy Bombing, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Tanzania, Dar Es Salaam, Politics News

Susan Hirsch, a college professor from Donora, Penn., and her husband, a Kenyan citizen named Abdurrahman Abdullah, were running an errand at the U.S....

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Albino Trials Begin in Tanzania

BBC NEWS | Posted 07.09.2009 | World

Read More: Tanzania Albino Murders, Albino, Albinos Witchcraft, Africa, Albino Trials, Tanzania, Albino Trials Tanzania, Albino Murders, World News

Trials have started in Tanzania of 12 people accused of murdering albino people and selling their body parts for use in witchcraft....

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Amateur Abortion In Africa Takes Deadly Toll On Women

New York Times | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

Read More: African Women, Abortion, Africa Women, Africa Abortion, Foreign Affairs, Africa, Tanzania, Amateur Abortion, Advocacy, World News

A handwritten ledger at the hospital tells a grim story. For the month of January, 17 of the 31 minor surgical procedures here were done to repair the...

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Seth Green Shares His Secrets of Financial Success as Unbroke Premieres

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 06.28.2009 | Entertainment

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Andrea Chalupa

Green compares Unbroke to the Schoolhouse Rock shorts: funny and informative. "I'm concerned for all of America's youth who grew up watching My Super Sweet 16 and Cribs."

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Making Life a Little Easier for HIV Orphans

Catholic Relief Services | Posted 06.25.2009 | World

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Hunger, World Hunger, Orphans, HIV in Africa, Aids, Tanzania, HIV/AIDS Africa, AIDS Orphans, World News
Catholic Relief Services

Across Tanzania, 1.1 million children have been affected by HIV, with many losing one or both parents to the virus.

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Ethiopian-American Lawyer on Conflicts Along the Nile

Jim Luce | Posted 06.25.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Uganda, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, Lawyer, Thought Leaders, Global Citizens, Ethiopia, Fasil Amdetsion, Lake Victoria, Harvard University, Jim Luce, Yale University, Water Rights, Sudan, Tanzania, Mediterranean, River Nile, Ethiopian-American, World News
Jim Luce

Fasil Amdetsion, an attorney from Ethiopia, thinks the Nile basin will be the most likely site of a future "water war" because the Nile embodies "all the challenges that transnational management of fresh water could possibly present."

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Black Rhino Hope: Conservationists Want To Move And Breed Rare Rhinos

AP | TOM ODULA | Posted 06.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Rhino, Africa, Environment, Tanzania, Animals, Black Rhino, Kenya, Green News

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya and Tanzania could relocate black rhinos to neighboring countries under a plan to increase the endangered species and boo...

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2,870 Mayors for Peace: Does Yours Belong?

Jim Luce | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weaponry, Atomic Bomb Dome, Delhi, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, United Nations, Takeshi Araki, Sri Lanka, Boston, World Peace, Thought Leaders, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Denver, Global Citizens, Seattle, Nagasaki, 2020 Vision Campaign, Prague, Mayors for Peace, Tanzania, Tadatoshi Akiba, Aaron Tovish, Philadelphia, Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, Santo Domingo, Mathew Luce, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, Haiti, Japan, New York, Hiroshima Peace Park., Federation of the American Scientists, Tipping Point, Thousand Origami Cranes, San Francisco, Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol, Orphans International Worldwide, Senbazru, Lome, Galle, Moshi, Manado, Jacmel, World News
Jim Luce

It is possible to disarm all nuclear weaponry by 2020. It is do-able. For the sake of our orphans, for the sake of your own families' children, let us commit ourselves to believing this.

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Girls: Society's Primary Educators

Payam Zamani | Posted 05.29.2009 | World

Read More: Tanzania, Social Economic Development Project, Development, Girls Education, Africa, Economic Development, World News
Payam Zamani

A social economic development project is much different than a charity. These projects represent grassroots undertakings that have local support and are self-sustained.

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Build for Mothers and You Build for Everyone

Sarah Brown | Posted 05.22.2009 | World

Read More: Women, Women's Healthcare, Africa, First Ladies Summit, Women's Health, Women Mortality Rate, Disease, Maternal Mortality Rate, Childbirth Death, Sarah Brown, Maternal Mortality, Childbirth, Usdfa, New York-New York, Los Angeles-California, Tanzania, Italy, United Kingdom, World News
Sarah Brown

We will make progress on HIV/AIDS, education, nutrition, health care, on immunization, even, I believe, on the environment, if we reduce the number of mothers dying needlessly in childbirth.

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Tanzanian Hotel Inspired by Rock Formations

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.18.2009 | Home

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Its architecture is inspired by rock formations and is meant to evoke all aspects of geology, from mounding to erosion, stratification and fossilizati...

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