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Hubdub - Home: "Hubdub forecasts how news stories will turn out. Use it to track the stories you care about and compete with others by making predictions yourself."
An ad hoc collection of websites for English learners/teachers.
Hubdub - Home: "Hubdub forecasts how news stories will turn out. Use it to track the stories you care about and compete with others by making predictions yourself."
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Kiva.org - Loans that change livesKiva lets you lend to a specific entrepreneur in the developing world empowering them to lift themselves out of poverty.
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Labels: economics, investment, loan, poverty
Audio Production for Movies, TV | Film / TV - Music Sound Effects, Dialogue, audio for tv, movies, film: "Distributed in 94 countries, Mix is the world's leading magazine for the professional recording and sound production technology industry. Mix covers a wide range of topics including: recording, live sound and production, broadcast production, audio for film and video, and music technology."
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Labels: audiobooks, broadcast media, magazines, sound
American Civil Liberties Union : Close Guantanamo: "JANUARY 11, 2008, is the six-year anniversary of the first arrival of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
On January 11, we are calling on everyone opposed to torture and indefinite detention to WEAR ORANGE to symbolize their sadness and disgust with the national shame that is Guantanamo Bay.
Download the CLOSE GUANTaNAMO Toolkit now to find out how you can organize for January 11 at home, in your office, on campus, in your community, and online."
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Labels: aclu, activism, demonstration, politics, sociology
Exonerated, Freed, and What Happened Then - The New York Times Since 1989, more than 200 prisoners have been exonerated by DNA evidence in teh United States. The NY Times interviewed 137 of them since leaving prison.