Did you know that there was such thing as Make a Difference Day (the fourth Saturday of October), National Volunteer Week (the third week of April) or Be the Change Day (this year, Oct. 3)? These are not observed holidays, but are there to remind us of events happening around the world.
According to the New […]
Entries Categorized as 'world news'
Taking Volunteering to another Level
June 3, 2009
Lose Weight, Save a Tree?
April 28, 2009
Last week, a study done by the International Journal of Epidemiology by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical medicine concluded that overweight people are harmful to the environment. When I first heard about this I thought it was kind of an interesting topic and correlation, but didn’t give it much more thought than that. As […]
North Korea’s Propaganda Machine
April 13, 2009
North Korea’s failed attempt to launch a satellite into orbit last week barely made the news in the U.S. Perhaps because Americans have not been troubled by it since the end of the war in 1953, we tend to view North Korea differently than unstable states such as Sudan and Somalia. Instead, we joke about […]
Journalists Held in North Korea
April 3, 2009
In case you haven’t heard…
March 19, 2009 it was reported that, “North Korean guards detained an American journalist near the country’s western border with China, a newspaper report said Thursday. However, another report said two U.S. reporters were taken into custody in the far northeast while trying to shoot footage of the communist country.”
As the […]