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Archives for septembre 2013

Citing Fraud, Disney Disbands Program Allowing Disabled Guests To Skip Long Lines

Reports had circulated that wealthier patrons of Disney amusement parks were paying for “disabled tour guides” to skip long lines.

Katie Rucke
Par Katie Rucke

Citing abuse of the system, Disney officials said that starting Oct. 9, the California-based Disneyland Park and Florida-based Disney World Resort theme parks will no longer allow disabled visitors to skip the hours-long wait in lines for rides and attractions, with the announcement Disney is discontinuing its Guest Assistance Card program. Though

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On Coal, The EPA Takes A (Mild) First Stand

While commendable, it’s doubtful that the EPA’s latest move on CO2 emissions from coal plants will have a big enough impact.

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
Par Jeffrey Cavanaugh

Last week the ongoing story of climate change offered us poor humans a slight glimmer of hope in the form of a bureaucratic action by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It also highlighted the ongoing battle between climate activists allied to the Obama administration and the various industrial interests aligned against them to chart the

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2 Popes Reach Out To Atheists In Apparent Campaign

Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI has emerged inside the Vatican walls to publish a lengthy letter to one of Italy’s most well-known atheists.

VATICAN CITY  — Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI has emerged from his self-imposed silence inside the Vatican walls to publish a lengthy letter to one of Italy's most well-known atheists. In it, he defends his record on handling sexually abusive priests and discusses everything from evolution to theology to the figure of Jesus Christ. Excerpts of the

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Humanity’s Heating of Planet is Planting Seeds of Hunger: Report

Ahead of IPCC report on global warming, Oxfam warns of dangerous spiral of poverty and food scarcity.

John Queally
Par John Queally

It is nearly a cliché to declare that the failure of the world's governments to respond to the repeated warnings by scientists and environmentalists about the perils of climate change is a crime against future generations. However, as a new study released Monday by Oxfam International proves, clichés are born of facts and when it comes to the

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Overdose of Acetaminophen: Brianna’s Story: ‘She Didn’t Have a Second Christmas’

Tylenol’s pediatric products had the potential for lethal confusion — and this was no secret to federal regulators.

ProPublica
Par ProPublica

  This documentary is an investigative report by ProPublica.  OPELOUSAS, La. — On a chilly Friday night in January 2003, Christina Hutto took her 5-month-old daughter to Opelousas General Hospital, a brown building squatting near the center of this small Louisiana town. A chubby girl with bright blue eyes and blond hair, Brianna had

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Ecological ‘Wake-Up’ Call Counters Corporate-Friendly ‘Free’ Trade

Report from UN body on sustainable agriculture stands ‘in stark contrast to the accelerated push for new free trade agreements. »

Andrea Germanos
Par Andrea Germanos
Children sun drying cocoa beans on a cocoa processing facility in Africa (Photo by The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture)

The world needs to "wake up before it is too late" and usher in a paradigm shift in agriculture that moves away from industrial agriculture in favor of “mosaics of sustainable regenerative production system" that favor small-scale farmers and local food production, a new reportfrom a UN body states. However, the call from the UN Conference on

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