News you won’t be reading
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Two stories that didn’t make the front page of your local totally unbiased newspaper.
- In Iraq, democracy is the new hotness. Via CNN …
- Turns out we didn’t need to save the rainforests (via the NYT, no less).
These new “secondary” forests are emerging in Latin America, Asia and other tropical regions at such a fast pace that the trend has set off a serious debate about whether saving primeval rain forest — an iconic environmental cause — may be less urgent than once thought. By one estimate, for every acre of rain forest cut down each year, more than 50 acres of new forest are growing in the tropics on land that was once farmed, logged or ravaged by natural disaster.
Um, oops.
One Sunni Arab man strolling through Baghdad, Ali Sabah, 26, told CNN he is looking forward to casting a ballot.
“Democracy is the correct way, this is for sure,” he said.
… and Reuters:
Thousands of people failed to find their names on voter registration lists and could not vote. One of them was elderly Fadhel al-Shimary, who had walked three km (two miles) to vote in Baghdad’s Palestine Street, stopping every 50 meters to rest in a chair carried by his son.
“I will wait here until the night. I must vote before I die,” he said. “Maybe they are trying to steal my vote. But I will not allow it. I am still alive. I am not dead yet.”
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- Another story you won’t see in the NYT
- Is democracy good for what ails ‘em?
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