]]> http://www.maps101.com/Application/GITN/View.aspx?articleid=1081 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Thanks to globalization, imported foods are a common item in American diets; however, with these foods comes a word of caution. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has detected worrisome amounts of poison residues on some imported fruits and vegetables entering the United S ]]> http://www.maps101.com/Application/GITN/View.aspx?articleid=1079 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 The Peace Corps is an organization known around the world for its dedication to service in foreign lands. The year of celebration for the organization marking its 50^th anniversary is 2011. An amazing list of names adorns the organization's alumni rolls, amounting to nea ]]> http://www.maps101.com/Application/GITN/View.aspx?articleid=1077 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 For the first time in human history, more of the world's 6.8 billion people live in cities than in rural areas. That is an incredible demographic and geographic shift since 1950 when only 30 percent of the world's 2.5 billion inhabitants lived in urban environments.

The w ]]> http://www.maps101.com/Application/GITN/View.aspx?articleid=1075 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 After an earthquake hit Haiti in January 2010, thousands of requests to adopt the children orphaned in the disaster inundated the country. Few were actually granted, especially after American missionaries were arrested trying to take 33 Haitian children out of the country.

Sudan is located in n ]]> http://www.maps101.com/Application/GITN/View.aspx?articleid=1071 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 A new type of chocolate is on the market. Chocolate makers boast that acticoa, which is packed with antioxidants, slows the aging process and prevents wrinkles. If true, this is even one more reason to eat the decadent confection.

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One of Leonardo da Vinci's students m ]]> http://www.maps101.com/Application/GITN/View.aspx?articleid=1067 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), an international agreement between governments, dealt a serious blow to the Atlantic bluefin tuna in March 2010. The convention voted to deny a proposed international ban on fishing and trading the bluefin. Many ]]> http://www.maps101.com/Application/GITN/View.aspx?articleid=1065 Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 By now, the whole world has heard about the major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. When the Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig leased by oil giant BP (British Petroleum), exploded on April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental disaster began.

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