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Missing the Point on the Guantánamo Taliban Prisoner Swap and the Release

I wrote the following article for the “ Close Guantánamo ” website, which I established in January 2012

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A sustainability assessment tool for rural water services

Ryan Schweitzer and James Mihelcic from the University of South Florida have developed a Sustainability

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Renewed research call for faecal sludge secondary treatment options in

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UNESCO-IHE and partners offering twenty PhD positions on pro-poor

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Wordless Wednesday: Dutch Rooftops

Tagged: brick buildings , domkerk , dutch rooftops , gothic architecture , photography , wordless wednesday

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Spiders understand "music" of their own web

A spider web, plucked like a guitar string, provides its inhabitants with information, scientists have

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Climate engineering can't stop global warming, scientists warn

Tinkering with the climate directly won't help us avoid what's needed, says a report.

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Lasers help recreate supernova explosions in lab

Researchers are using lasers to recreate at a small scale what happens when stars explode.

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Texas, North Dakota tell happier shale tales than California

Two weeks after government officials all but demolished California's shale-oil reserve estimate

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History of gasoline and oil exports murky

As oil companies clamor to export crude, they may look to the government's 1981 decision to green-light

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Oil futures little changed after U.S. jobs report

A strengthening job market would be in important sign of recovery in the world's biggest economy, which

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