The latest World-Affairs articles published and distributed by Articles3000.com http://www.articles3000.com/rss/World-Affairs.xml Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:18:43 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.articles3000.com/World-Affairs/130353/Twice-an-Orphan-Barmy-Bureaucracy-or-Welfare-of-the-Child-You-Judge.html Last weekend here in France an 11-year-old boy, Joris, found himself effectively orphaned for the second time He was taken into care after his father, 34-year-old Aboubakar Coulibaly, was deported back to his native Côte d'Ivoire t Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:15:13 +0100 http://www.articles3000.com/World-Affairs/130143/The-Effects-of-Global-Warming.html When you hear about the effects of global warming it is important to understand that the effects we are experiencing today are moderate compared to what the future will see if we do not take preventative action Over the next century researchers and environmental professionals are stating that the effects of global warming will continue on a constant inclined curve n Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:50:16 +0100 http://www.articles3000.com/World-Affairs/130044/Public-Prosecutor-Recommends-Dropping-Jean-Sarkozy-Charges.html The mysterious if somewhat exhausting case of the hit-and-run scooter and the role of the French president's son, Jean Sarkozy, could be nearing its conclusion A Paris prosecutor has recommended dropping charges against him, but a final decision won't be handed down until September Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:43:08 +0100 http://www.articles3000.com/World-Affairs/130030/Ad%92-Campaign-to-Promote-Sarkozy%92s-Election-Promise.html The French government has launched a media blitz in an attempt to convince people that it really is winning the battle to increase purchasing power In the coming weeks the French will be treated to over 1,600 TV commercials as well as Internet advertising and full page spreads in the national and regional daily newspapers all accounts people are still feeling the pinch, the economy isn’t booming and France remains a country in which half the population earns less than €1,500 per month. The media has been especially critical with Sarkozy and his government, continually questioning when the promised increase in purchasing power would actually happen. Sarkozy, whose approval ratings have been hovering around the 35 per cent mark for a couple of months now, even admitted in his 90-minute long televised interview back in April that there had been a failure in his fiscal package - but only in terms of communication. And that’s very much the line his government is now taking in an effort to convince people that it’s on the right track. At the launch of the campaign earlier this week French prime minister, François Fillon, insisted that measures had been in place for over a year to boost purchasing power but the message hadn’t come across to the general public because the fiscal changes that had been made were complicated and difficult to explain. That at least was his justification for blowing over €4 million of taxpayers’ money on a television and press campaign to explain how the government is going to win the battle to increase purchasing power. All well and good but critics point out that the media blitz could also be interpreted as propaganda on behalf of Sarkozy’s ruling Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (Union for a Popular Movement, UMP) party, aware that it had failed to deliver on an election promise but trying to convince the public otherwise. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:08:17 +0100 http://www.articles3000.com/World-Affairs/129439/A-True-Life-Story-of-David-Versus-Goliath.html My book, RETURN TO THE MIDDLE KINGDOM: One Family, Three Revolutionaries, and the Birth of Modern China, is non-fiction, but in order to bring the history alive, I had to bring the characters and places alive I've given some idea of how I wrote three-dimensional characters previously, and now I want to say how important it is to know the places the protagonists had been to b Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:15:17 +0100 http://www.articles3000.com/World-Affairs/129365/Sarkozy-Starts-Visit-to-Israel.html The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, begins a three-day visit to Israel on Sunday in what the press back home is reporting as further proof of an improvement in relations between the two countries It'll be only the third time a French president has visited Israel, and Sarkozy is likely to have a far more conciliatory tone than his predecessors Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:57:18 +0100 http://www.articles3000.com/World-Affairs/128977/Algae-Biodiesel-Fuel-of-the-Future.html There is no question that alternative fuel sources must be found if we are going to reduce our dependence on oil, lower transportation costs, and stop damaging the environment Algae biodiesel is a fuel alternative that has many people hopeful for these changes as it creates fuel efficiently without displacing food crops, damaging the environment, and it reduces our dependence on oil r Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:29:13 +0100 http://www.articles3000.com/World-Affairs/128820/The-Nicaragua-Canal-Will-it-Ever-be-Built.html The Nicaragua Canal: Will It Ever be Built Everyone knows about the Panama Canal, and how it connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:08:18 +0100 http://www.articles3000.com/World-Affairs/127736/France-Faces-Fine-Over-Lack-of-Hamster-Love.html Weird but true, France is being threatened with a €17 million penalty if it doesn’t clean up its act and come up with a strategy to save the European hamster, one of the continent’s most threatened species Last week the European Commission, the executive branch of the 27-member European Union, gave France a two-month deadline or else it would have to cough up the whopping fine for failing to comply with the Habitats Directive (yes we’re in Eurobabbleland here) to prevent the rodent’s extinction r Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:08:19 +0100 http://www.articles3000.com/World-Affairs/127688/Choose-Your-Plastic-Products-With-Care.html People of a certain generation remember when a neighbor whispered a hot tip into the Graduate's ear, "Plastics" That was a reflection of the 1960's excitement over the material that promised to revolutionize manufacturing, industry and household living p Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:36:20 +0100