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'Summer Before the War' is insightful, witty heartbreaker

Edit The Roanoke Times 01 May 2016
As “Downton Abbey” fans know, the charm of Edwardian England did not come to an end with the death of King Edward VII in May 1910. It ended with the beginning of World War I in the late summer of 1914 ... ....

Tomorrow When The War Began Series 1 Ep 2

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 30 Apr 2016
War has begun. In the aftermath of Ellie's petrol bomb, the invading army swarms through the streets of Wirrawee. Lee is shot in the leg & Robyn is forced to carry him to the momentary safety of his house. CAST. Molly Daniels ... ....

Sanders’ supporters are content to lose both the battle and the war

Edit The Miami Herald 30 Apr 2016
And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.”. Those are, of course, the opening lyrics to Frank Sinatra’s immortal recording of My Way. They are also a succinct description of the state of Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. Last week, the candidate announced he was laying off hundreds of staff members after a series of bruising primary losses to Hillary Clinton ... Such candidates catch the Zeitgeist in a bottle....

'One day the war came' — Liberian Nobel Prize winner to talk peace in Ottawa

Edit Canada Dot Com 30 Apr 2016
Then one day the war came," said Gbowee, a 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner who was just 17 when Liberian president Charles Taylor led the country into a bloody civil war fuelled partly by conflict diamonds and tensions in the region ... After walking through military checkpoints every day during the war, being touched and harassed by soldiers and ......

Why Christians are losing the war over gay-wedding cakes

Edit New York Post 30 Apr 2016
In today’s Wedding Cake War, conservatives are floundering on the battlefield of religious liberty. While this remains a central and legitimate combat zone, the Right should fight on at least three other constitutional grounds ... But the private sector is another matter ... Americans enjoy the freedom to associate with and without whomever we wish ... Ironically, Christians are losing the Wedding Cake War because they are too Christian....

Syrian doctor Mohammad Wassim Maaz saved the lives of countless children in the war-ravaged neighborhoods ...

Edit Daily Star Lebanon 29 Apr 2016
Syrian doctor Mohammad Wassim Maaz saved the lives of countless children in the war-ravaged neighborhoods of Aleppo city before an airstrike this week on a hospital took his own ... ....

Coalition In-Fighting Threatens the War Against ISIS in Iraq

Edit US News 29 Apr 2016
Recent skirmishes hint at a problem in the war-torn country that far exceeds the extremist threat ... ....

Television: Tomorrow When The War Began

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 29 Apr 2016
TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN ... This second episode has dispensed with the voiceover from Ellie, and is all the better for it. Instead, we're straight in to the action in a beautifully choreographed and edited opening sequence that really gets the heart started. The identity of the invading force (never specific in the books) has clearly caused some headaches both for the producers and, consequently, us....

The War on Ukrainian Scientists

Edit CounterPunch 29 Apr 2016
On April 19, 2016, thousands of scientists and researchers marched from Maidan Square in central Kyiv – the cradle of the Ukrainian ‘revolutions’ of 2004 and 2014 – to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine’s Parliament) ... The protest was organized by the Trade Union of Employees of NASU. It was the largest such protest of scientists since 1994 ... 91 million USD) or the indexation of salaries against Ukraine’s very high rate of inflation....

The war on elephants

Edit BBC News 28 Apr 2016
How the very existence of Africa’s elephants is threatened by poachers, traffickers and Asia’s appetite for ivory ... ....

In the war against dust, a new tool inspired by geckos

Edit Science Daily 28 Apr 2016
Micrometric and sub-micrometric contaminant particles — what most of us call “dust” — can cause big problems for art conservators, the electronics industry, aerospace engineers, and others. These nanoparticles can prevent a cellphone from working or rob the vitality of a painting’s colors. Drawing from the forces of static cling and the science behind gecko feet, a research team has developed a promising tool in the war on dust ... ....

ANDERSON COOPER 360° SPECIAL WE GOT HIM: PRESIDENT OBAMA, BIN LADEN AND THE FUTURE OF THE WAR ON TERROR (CNN - Cable News Network Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Apr 2016
On Monday, May 2nd, on the fifth anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden, CNN's Peter Bergen sits down with President Barack Obama to talk about the bin Laden raid and the state of the war on terror five years later ... President Obama, Bin Laden and the Future of the War on Terror ... They will also weigh in on ISIS and the war on terror....

Sheep join the war on weeds (Australian Government)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Apr 2016
High tech collars fitted to sheep could be the next frontier when it comes to controlling the spread of weeds, with the CSIRO receiving almost $300,000 from the Australian Government to research and develop a 'virtual fence' system for farms ... 'The CSIRO will receive $299,314 to accelerate development of a 'virtual fence' system for weed control using sheep,' Minister Joyce said....
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