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Behind Closed Doors

On the eve of International Migrants Day, Nisha Varia from Human Rights Watch joins Roger Numbers in the GOOD News studio to talk about abuses...

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Job Outlook Not Good

A new report from the Fiscal Policy Institute suggests that New York could lose as many as 10,000 jobs per month throughout 2009. As layoffs...

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Climate Change Changes Climate Change

Turns out minerals in the ice that's melting off of Antarctica stimulate photosynthesis in plankton in the water, which in turn sucks CO2 out of...

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Make Money, Not Bombs

At a time when it needs cash to spend on various bailouts, the United States spends tens of billions of dollars to maintain a 5,000+ weapon...

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Crisis in Canada! Seriously.

Canada's government has been in crisis since last week, when a coalition of the three major left parties vowed to call a confidence vote to...

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Make Money to Make Money

Now that we're officially in a recession, greenbacks are scarce. Why not print your own? That's what many communities are doing, though it's not...

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Prohibit This!

Today is the 75th anniversary of the end of Prohibition. To celebrate the repeal of what could arguably be called the silliest Constitutional...

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Worst Case Scenario

In the wake of last week's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, tensions are rising between India and neighboring Pakistan. Enmity between two nuclear...

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My So Cold Life

A study published in the December issue of the Journal of Biogeography reports that the polar South Orkney Island archipelago is teeming with...

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Like America, But Louder

It's official: the United States is in a recession, and has been for the whole of 2008, according to a report released yesterday by the National...

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Secret Life of Rocks

A rock that absorbs CO2? This is more science fiction, right? Not so, says Juerg Matter, a scientist from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty...

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Thanksgiving Leftovers

Thanksgiving may be over, but your refrigerator hasn't heard. What to do with the mountains of turkey and stuffing lurking beneath all that...

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Happy Thanksgiving

Today is Thanksgiving in the United States. What are you thankful for?

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Lizard Pushups

Lizards: they're just like us! So suggests a study released on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Terry Ord, a...

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Mugabe, Friend of Cholera

An outbreak of cholera is the latest effect of Robert Mugabe's systematic destruction of Zimbabwe's infrastructure. Reports that as many as 300...

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Hippo Rollers

Turning on the tap and watching clean water flow out is something that most of us take for granted. In many parts of the world, however, getting...

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The Asteroids Galaxy Tour

You may recognize the pop stylings of GOOD News's musical guests, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, from their recent iPod Touch commercial. The Danish...

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Somali Pirates 101

News of the seizure of at least four ships this week by Somali pirates has some scratching their heads. Pirates? Those still exist? They may not...

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Grapes of Economic Wrath

Declarations of recession are pouring out of Europe and Asia, and speculations are flying that the United States isn't far behind. With the...

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Deconstructing Bond

It's Casual Friday at GOOD News, and Roger Numbers is joined again by film critic Daniel Holloway. This week, they watch the new James Bond...

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