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Thinking about Trump’s entrance into the Presidential Race in America in late 2015, coming down the escalator in Trump Tower with Melania at his side, sparked a flashback to a symbolic staircase scene. I have…
October 23, 2015 | No Comments
México.- protection is important to emphasize that we can not skip hydrometerological concerns. The magnitude of this phenomenon we have never seen in this country, there is a history of hurricanes we’ve had in the…
June 08, 2015 | No Comments
Disasters occur when natural extremes encounter communities who are ill-prepared to cope with these forces. Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) strategies outline preventative measures to reduce the impacts of foreseeable hazardous events. Time and time…
August 30, 2014 | No Comments
“Politicians need to get their act together on climate change.“ This quote from Chancellor Angela Merkel´s climate advisor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber is almost two years old now and was originally pinpointed at the global warming…
October 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
“Are politicians really a commodity that can be bought and sold?” Mickey Glantz. October 12, 2010 It seems that there is a lot of hard evidence as well as circumstantial evidence to support this contention.…
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September 13, 2010 | No Comments
Mickey Glantz 14 September 2010 “The Middle East Peace Process is alive, if not well” In the introduction of his book Peace Process, William B. Quandt wrote, “Sometime in the mid-1970s the term peace process…
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September 09, 2010 | 1 Comment
“Bureaucracies Run on Fear” Mickey Glantz September 9, 2010 Degrees of freedom for an individual to make decisions in an organization seem to increase as s/he moves upwards in a bureaucratic structure. s/he is boxed…
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September 07, 2010 | No Comments
Mary Jones, Guest Editorial Wind is a result of the uneven heating of the Earth by the sun and the fact that temperatures will always seek to reach an equilibrium (heat moves to a cooler…
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August 27, 2010 | 1 Comment
Perhaps this is just a 70 year-old’s lament: alas, he’s not 24 anymore. For those of us at this end of the age spectrum, even for those who are still pretty energetic, there is an…
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