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Marketing Crazy
An update of the manual doctors use to diagnose mental illness has critics fearing a bonanza of over-medication.
Bolt In The Blue: UPDATED
So Andrew Bolt has again been furiously Googling to have a second attempt at knocking down The Global Mail’s feature on the dire situation facing the tiny Pacific nation of Kiribati because of climate change.
Bolt In The Blue
News Ltd columnist and climate-change denier Andrew Bolt today posted on his blog a link to the Google Earth Engine time-lapse photographic series, which shows how the earth has changed over the past 28 years.Beneath the headline “Are the satellites lying about poor, drowning Kiribati?”, Bolt posted a link to what he called “the island” and asked his readers: what vanishing island?
Sacred Or Sacrificial: Cambodia’s Cardamom Forest Under Attack
Buddhist monks pit prayer against Cambodia’s desperate power needs and China’s profit motive.
Can A Few Monks Save the Cardamom Forest?
Cambodia has turned to clearing its prehistoric forests for hydro-electricity dams. And China is only too eager to help.
Australia’s Billion-Dollar Blind Spot
What if the government could save hundreds of millions of dollars by listing a cheaper drug, shown to be just as effective as the one which costs the PBS more than any other medicine?
The Defined Line Between Coca and Cocaine
Really, it’s nothing to sniff at.
Dirty Tricks Dotcom
When US Attorney General, Eric Holder, jets into New Zealand next week, he can expect to find hundreds of people attempting to film him — and set his actions to music.