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World poverty rate is shrinking rapidly: Study

March 19, 2013

The brighter global picture is the result of international and national aid and development projects.

According to a new groundbreaking academic study, some of the poorest people in the world are becoming significantly less poor. The study has taken a new approach to measuring deprivation. Oxford University’s poverty and human development initiative report predicts that countries among the most impoverished in the world could see acute poverty eradicated within 20 years if they continue at present rates.

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Internet inventor, Vint Cerf, worried about its survival

December 6, 2012

Vint Cerf, inventor of the Internet Protocol [IP] and Transmission Control Protocol [TCP].

One of the two or three people who can rightly claim to have invented the internet is Vint Cerf. He is now worried about its survival.

Cerf is specifically concerned about the World Conference on International Telecommunications, happening now through December 14 in Dubai. At this meeting, for the first time since 1988, the countries of the world will gather to try and update international agreements on how to handle data, voice, and other communications technologies. (Video)

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Designer Drug Abuse Out of Control in Many Regions of the World

March 2, 2011

Ecstasy tablets seized at the Belem International Airport in Belem.

The problem of so-called “designer drugs” is running out of control in many regions of the world, the U.N. global drugs watchdog said Wednesday. The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) said detailed instructions for how to make designer drugs, which are slightly altered to bypass existing control systems, are often shared via the Internet.

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