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What’s Better: Saving the World or Building Another Facebook app?

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Running on just sugar and caffeine, 32 teams of students worked non-stop for 18 hours to develop applications that they hoped would blow the judges’ socks off. This was at the UC-Berkeley Hackathon, last weekend. Indeed, many teams succeeded in their mission. They built some amazing software: [...]

The Underlying Tragedy

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On Oct. 17, 1989, a major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck the Bay Area in Northern California. Sixty-three people were killed. This week, a major earthquake, also measuring a magnitude of 7.0, struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The Red Cross estimates that between 45,000 and 50,000 people have died.
This is not a [...]

How Women Can Save the Planet

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Empowering young women through education will help reduce overpopulation in areas that cannot support it and avoid extremism in the children they raise
At six billion plus today, the earth’s human population will reach more than nine billion by 2050, according to estimates. If this many people consume energy at the current rate [...]

Gates Foundation Pledges $35 Million for Banking Innovation

However, access to a safe place to store money is a top priority of poor people around the world, he said.

Movable Feast Carries a Pollution Price Tag

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Cod caught off Norway is shipped to China to be turned into filets, then shipped back to Norway for sale. Argentine lemons fill supermarket shelves on the Citrus Coast of Spain, as local lemons rot on the ground. Half of Europe’s peas are grown and packaged in Kenya.
In the United States, [...]