Billy Wright plunked down dime after dime for comic books while growing up in the late 1930s and early 1940s, caring for the collection he started around the age of 9 until his death more than half a century later. On Wednesday, most of that collection sold for a whopping $3.5 million.
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Jesus Ignacio Flores started working when he was 16, laboring long hours on construction sites and in the fields of his country's biggest sugar plantation.
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Air pollution isn't just harmful — it's expensive, resulting in health care and environmental costs of more than euro100 billion ($130 billion) in 2009, the European Union's environment agency said Thursday.
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Read some of the previews of what the summary from the updating for policy makers from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) would say and you might think much of this climate change business was being overstated.
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On Thursday the 15th of September 2011 the Danish right wing government of the past decade lost its slim majority.
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Thought the public debate over climate change was over after the onslaught of COP15 related climate change buzz in 2009? Wrong! The hard core deniers are still unfazed by reality. The honest skeptic has been convinced by the steady flow of scientific reports supporting anthrop …
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From the distant and near past The Washington Post reports Oil leaks from 233 World War II shipwrecks could threaten US coast as vessels corrode.
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Last Saturday it rained here in Copenhagen. Now my basement is dry, traffic is normal again, (my) video(s) and photos are online and I found the time to look up the statistics. The average precipitation for the month of July is 68 mm in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Most is settled. Where is the last excitement to find in European football? English Bronze: Manchester City or Arsenal? Manchester City are one point ahead and miss playing no.
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The film director Lars von Trier was kicked out of the Cannes film festival the other day. But every day many people freely publish outright dangerous statements. Come on guys, Trier is not a talker, he's a director.
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Get updated on the top five European football leagues in a flash. Statistics based, curated by experience.
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It isn't safe leaving the cocoon of Treehugger.com and Change.org RSS-feed summaries of the world around us to actually experience it. Not only do you risk getting caught up in a revolution. You risk seeing nasty stuff. Touched by Africa
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After a somewhat poetic introduction and a dusty chronology of the histories of man and water here is an instant update on both current and future water wars.
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As promised in my first article I'll blog a bit about "water wars". First, a very brief look at historical conflicts over water or just battles with water involved.
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We live on Earth – The Blue Planet. A rock floating through empty space along with many other rocks. Yet this particular rock is veiled in a thin layer of cosmologically rare organic materials and unstable gasses which is only present thanks to an abundance of water.
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A bomb exploded at a downtown bus station in Kenya's capital late Monday as passengers boarded a bus, killing at least one person and wounding up to 39 others, police said. Suspicions centered on a Somali militant group.
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FC Copenhagen became the first Danish team to reach the Champions League knockout stage, while holder Inter Milan missed out on top spot in its group by losing 3-0 at Werder Bremen on Tuesday.
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former prime minister of Denmark and head responsible for his nation joining the 'Coalition of the Willing' now Secretary General of NATO is mentioned in the latest leaks on Wikileaks.org.
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Why would anyone slap cut beer cans around the necks of seagulls? A wildlife group made aware of the incidents in the San Francisco Bay Area isn't certain but it calls it torture and is fighting back with a $2,000 bounty.
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People read to have their prejudices confirmed. And they don't trust some unknown blogger. If you are smart and want to explain yourself in the blogosphere what do you do?
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September 20th to 22nd 2010 the United Nations gather in New York to evaluate progress on the Millennium Development Goals. To help create a buzz and to experiment with new media European Journalism Center is hosting the TH!NK ABOUT IT #3: Developing World blogging project.
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MDG GOAL 8: DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT.Target 4: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries.Monitor: Proportion of population with access to affordable essential drugs on a sustainable bas …
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If you want to know how to blog then reading a bit of the wisdom below might be a good start!
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September 20th to 22nd 2010 the United Nations gather in New York to evaluate progress on the Millennium Development Goals. To help create a buzz and to experiment with new media European Journalism Center is hosting the TH!NK ABOUT IT #3: Developing World blogging project.
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Tremendous traction was gained in the calls for a fair, ambitious and binding deal at the 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen. A hundred thousand people demonstrated on the streets of the Danish capital while millions voiced their hope online.
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I am very impressed and will continue to read your articles and follow them along.You have interesting writing ideas.
Benno Hansen is the Mugabe of Newsvine, if your interests are socialism, marxism and the restriction of freedom then this is the guy to add to your watchlist.
Thanks Benno, for showing your true stripes.
— ajs
Benno is one of the most original contributors on Newsvine - and on the web. This guy actually goes places to report about them. He got himself caught in the clash between Danish squatters and police forces during a riot, and he actually went and got a haircut as a Sicilian hitman just to make a point - and write about it in his column. He does what bloggers and citizen journalists should all be doing, and by doing so he makes the web a far more interesting place to be.
Benno knows what he's talking about. He has a true bravery of spirit and body, which informs his skillful and honest writing. If he's not on your watchlist, you're not getting smarter. Period.
— firsty
This is the first time I've been able to use the net to get first hand, unfiltered news from abroad. Usually there is some embedded reporter or somebody with what I would consider a simple commercial deal doing the coverage;i.e. AP, Rueters et.al. Thanks for your work Benno and be safe.
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Billy Wright plunked down dime after dime for comic books while growing up in the late 1930s and early 1940s, caring for the collection he started around the age of 9 until his death more than half a century later. On Wednesday, most of that collection sold for a whopping $3.5 million.
An Arkansas mother is being charged with a misdemeanor count of endangering the welfare of a minor after she made her son walk 4.6 miles to school in order to "teach him a lesson." Valerie Borders, 34, told police her 10-year-old son had been suspended from the bus for a week an …
A new wave of protests in defence of internet freedom is on its way. On Saturday, demonstrators will target the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement or ACTA for short.
Jesus Ignacio Flores started working when he was 16, laboring long hours on construction sites and in the fields of his country's biggest sugar plantation.
A father who was upset after a Tennessee couple deleted his adult daughter as a friend on Facebook has been charged in the shooting deaths of the couple, authorities said Wednesday.