South Africa has achieved much since the end of government-sanctioned racial segregation that lasted almost ]]> http://www.maps101.com/Application/GITN/View.aspx?articleid=1037 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 In some parts of the world people still make survive by hunting and gathering. National Geographic magazine recently published an article detailing the lives of the Hadza people of northern Tanzania. The Hadza live as their ancestors did 10,000 years ago—as ]]> http://www.maps101.com/Application/GITN/View.aspx?articleid=1035 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Haiti is in desperate straits. Even prior to the recent earthquake, the country was in shambles in nearly every way. It has taken a major disaster to focus the world's attention on this Western Hemisphere country.

Haiti's problems since the earthquake are overwhelming ]]> http://www.maps101.com/Application/GITN/View.aspx?articleid=1033 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 World leaders and the media are watching Yemen. This Southwest Asian country is on the brink of collapse. Yemen's reputation as a haven for Islamic terrorists is only one of a number of problems that may cause the country to become the world's next failed state.

Officiall ]]> http://www.maps101.com/Application/GITN/View.aspx?articleid=1031 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Scholars continue to examine the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade between Africa and the New World, one of the world's most dynamic, yet tragic, forced intercontinental migrations.

Slavery has long been part of human history as stronger societies subjugated weake ]]> http://www.maps101.com/Application/GITN/View.aspx?articleid=1029 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 In early December 2009, representatives from 192 countries convened in Copenhagen, Denmark, for negotiations on climate change. Those talks may affect many of the world's poorest countries. One of those is Peru, whose water sources are rapidly disappearing.

Approximately ]]> http://www.maps101.com/Application/GITN/View.aspx?articleid=1027 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Major forest fires always make headline news, particularly when they threaten populated areas. A look at some of the major forest fires that have occurred throughout U.S. history provides an interesting insight into the early history of the U.S. Forest Service and the politics of w ]]> http://www.maps101.com/Application/GITN/View.aspx?articleid=1025 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 In late December 2009, the infamous sign above the entrance to the Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland was stolen. The sign, which was quickly recovered, reads "Arbeit macht frei," or "Work makes you free." It is a potent reminder of the atrocities that occurred at Auschwi ]]> http://www.maps101.com/Application/GITN/View.aspx?articleid=1023 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Before 2008, the glitzy desert city of Dubai had been at the top of the global economic boom. At the end of November 2009, however, Dubai's largest state-owned company, Dubai World, asked its creditors for a "standstill" on paying its $60 billion debt until May 2010. The ne ]]> http://www.maps101.com/Application/GITN/View.aspx?articleid=1020 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 El Niño's back with all of its implications for world climates. For some, that is good news, but not so for others.

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