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The cradle of agriculture in ruins?
By Barbara Miller An article in The New York Times titled “Idle Iraqi Date Farms Show Decline of Economy “ (Aug. 14, 2009) describes the severe deterioration of agriculture in Iraq and highlights date...
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Finally smoked 'em out
Guest post by Graham Hough-Cornwell It has been surprising to find so little fuss in the blogosphere over the newly-passed smoking ban in Iraq. Articles on the subject have tended to express some sense...
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Nuclear news, nuclear fears and the role of science
Guest post by Barbara Rose Johnston I received last week copies of two very different publications reporting on outcomes from the scientific assessment of life in a nuclear warzone. These studies...
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Anthro in the news 2/25/13
• Human Terrain System update According to an article in USA Today, a $250 million U.S. Army program designed to aid troops in Iraq and Afghanistan has been riddled by serious problems that include...
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Anthro in the news 6/24/14
Sunni-Shi’a war not likely Cultural anthropologist William Beeman of the University of Minnesota wrote an article in Highbrow Magazine stating that the many factions among Sunnis and Shi’as in the...
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