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current affairs

A collection of 105 issues

This is good news.

Soda Distributors to End Most School Sales By MARIA NEWMAN Published: May 3, 2006 Some of the country’s biggest beverage companies have agreed to stop selling sugary soft drinks and other high calorie beverages in the nation’s schools, in an initiative announced today by former President Bill Clinton

Red shoes.

originally uploaded by Girlabroad. I want shoes like this! Oh. Wait. I had shoes like this, but Mies ate them…. Anyway, I’m feeling kind of flat right now. I have so much to do by next Wednesday, but I’m not motivated at all. And now I have to

Israel in Lebanon.

I like to read Amanda’s blog. It’s very informative and thought-provoking, even though I may not always see eye-to-eye on everything she posts. In terms of the Iranian/Syrian problem of backing Hamas and Hezbollah, I read an interesting commentary in the New York Times by Ted Koppel.

Stop.

originally uploaded by Bright Tal. This was posted with this picture on Flickr: Israel is trying to bring Lebanon to its knees. Israel is trying to destroy Lebanon and the Lebanese spirit. Israel is trying to turn Lebanese against each other. Israel is trying to turn us into animals scrounging

10x10.

On a lighter, design-related note, this is cool.

Never again?

This is a really good article about the history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. An excerpt which pretty much sums up my thoughts after reading a lot about things over the past few days. I feel for the Israelis, but as the US squandered the good will of the world

I want to design t-shirts.

originally uploaded by kevin meredith. I came across this in this week’s NY Times Magazine. I’ve been wanting to create some well-designed political t-shirts and sell them at Left Bank Books and small boutiques around town. Now seems as good a time as any…. I’m listening to

Cessez-le-feu.

Cessez-le-feu, originally uploaded by Hugo*. A demonstration in Paris yesterday, via Flickr.

"Smoke 'em out" with PowerPoint.

photo by Ralf Stockmann. This is a really interesting excerpt, taken from Thomas E. Rick’s Fiasco, especially given Tufte’s assertions about PowerPoint: That reliance on slides rather than formal written orders seemed to some military professionals to capture the essence of Rumsfeld’s amateurish approach to war planning.

City of Design.

What comes to mind when you think of Montréal? Canada, our friendly neighbor to the north. Quebec. Mt. Royal. The St. Lawrence River. The French Quarter. Design. Wait a minute. Design? If it didn’t come to mind, it should. Montréal was recently named the first North American “City of