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United States: LA declares ‘Meatless Mondays’ in vegetarian campaign
Posted by NBC: Melissa Pamer on November 10th, 2012
NBC: Los Angeles is hoping to persuade people to become vegetarian -- at least one day per week. Under a resolution unanimously approved by the city council this week, all future Mondays in the City of Angels have been declared "Meatless Mondays."
It's part of an international campaign to cut down on meat consumption for health and environmental reasons.
Both the spiritual home of the hamburger and a haven for the health-obsessed, Los Angeles became the largest city in the nation to support the...
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War’s End Threatens Water Supply in Northern Sri Lanka
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 10th, 2012
Inter Press Service: War is seldom good for anything, especially protracted conflicts like the one in Sri Lanka, which dragged on for over three decades and claimed between 80,000 to 100,000 lives.
But in a strange twist, this island nation's civil war seems to have been a blessing in disguise for the precarious water resources in the northern Jaffna Peninsula, the region that bore the brunt of the fighting.
The political and cultural nerve centre of the island's minority Tamil population, Jaffna became the de...