GEOG 101: FAll, 2008

Daily Newspaper Readings

• 9.30.08
  • Hijacked arms freighter is cornered by US Navy
  • Spurning Secularism, many french muslims find haven in catholic schools
  • pakistani refugees pour into afghanistan.
• 10.1
  • Many foods will soon be labeled by country of origin
  • At a tipping point, the US financial crisis is spreading to europe
  • Karzai sought saudi help with taliban
• 10.2
  • More candy from china tainted, is in US
  • Life in Zimbabwe: wait for useless money then scour for food
  • In Iraq, progress itself brings risks, as clashing sides have scores to settle.
• 10.3
  • Confronting Taliban, Pakistan finds itself at war
  • After financial crisis, undertainty and lectures from washignton critics
• 10.6
  • In poverty and strife, women test limits
  • Post-apartheid south africa enters new and anxious era
  • one way up: US space plan relies on Russia.
• 10.7
  • Rain Forest Tribes's charge of neglect is shrouded by religion and politics
  • Russia says georgia tries to provoke new ocnflict
  • One in 4 mammals threated with extinction, group finds
• 10.8
  • UN says biofuel subsidies raise food bill and hunger
  • Blow to Bush, judge orders 17 Guantanamo detainees freed
  • Old gender roles with your dinner?
• 10.9
  • US study is said to warn of peril in Afghanistan
  • Korea aims to end stigma of adoption and stop exporting
  • Serbia wins bid to review independence of Kosovo

EXAM TWO

• 10.13
  • Italy's Attacks on migrants fuel debate on racism
  • In Thai protests, a divide between urban and rural
  • China announces land policy aimed at promoting income growth in countryside.
• 10.14
  • Followers of ancient faith caught in Iraq's Fault lines
  • Amusing, but not funny
  • left-leaning president's election gives hope to landless Paraguayans
• 10.15
  • Russian Gas executives visit Palin's turf on business
  • Zimbabwe Generals' fears of prosecution threaten power-sharing deal
  • As US gains in Iraq, Rebels are said to go to Afghanistan
• 10.16
  • A somali influx unsettles latino meatpackers
  • infant deaths fall in US though rate is still high
  • mob muscles its way into politics in Bulgaria
• 10.17
  • Afghanistan airstrike threatens to deepen anger in an uneasy populace
  • european nations, fearing downturn, seek to revise agreement on emissions cuts
• 10.20
  • Russia is striving to modernize its military, the US notes with interest, not alarm
  • Acclaimed colombian institution has 4800 books and 10 legs
  • China enacts major landuse reform for farmers
• 10.21
  • Trial opens for 86 turks accused of plotting coup
  • Pakistani legislators, debating policy on militants, show little appetite for a fight
• 10.22
  • Urging europe to stay european
  • Drawing a bead on debtors
  • India, launching orbiter, plans to seek uranium on moon
  • Iraqi cabinet wants proposed security agreement altered
• 10.23
  • NATO fleet sails toward Somalia to guard against piracy
  • Rice visits Mexico for a meeting about its drug war
  • A northern neighbor growls, and Azerbaijan reassesses its options.
• 10.24
  • Leading Chinese advocate of democracy and human rights wins european prize
  • Drill heightens brazil-paraguay tensions
  • North korea faces worst food crisis in decade, UN finds
• 10.27
  • US takes to air to hit militants within Pakistan
  • Report finds Iraq building projects to be late, faulty, and over budget.

Exam 3

• 10.30
  • Money, unspent, in Iraq's pocket (mostly maps and graphs)
  • Afghanistan tests waters for overture to taliban
  • Pakistan tells US to stop airstrikes on its land
  • Iraqis insist on changes to long-delayed security pact with US
• 10.31
  • More lawsuits are filed over tainted milk in china
  • Crowds bid fond farewell to airport that saved Berlin
  • Somalia's pirates flourish in a lawless nation
• 11.3
  • Professor's liberalism contagious? Maybe not
  • Israel will halt funds to illegal settlements
• 11.4
  • Petraeus, in Pakistan, hears complaints from all sides about missile strikes
  • Jury convicts Venezuelan in South American spy case known as suitcasegate.
• 11.5
  • No time for laurels; now the hard part
  • China and Taiwan sign pacts on transportation and food
• 11.6
  • Colombia aid failed to halve drug making, report finds
  • Russian president sends Obama warning on European missile system
• 11.7
  • Obama victory alters the tenor of Iraqi politics
  • A low country seeks higher ground
  • North Korea tries to show its leader is healthy and in control
• 11.10
  • Secret order lets US Raid Al Qaeda in many countries
  • European support for bicycles promotes sharing of the wheels
• 11.11
  • How to Fix a Flat (Friedman's op-ed column)
• 11.12
  • Emirates see fiscal crisis as a chance to save culture
  • pireates hijack philippine chemical tanker off somalia
  • On NATO's table, Ukraine and a test of Russian ties
  • After US breakthrough, Europe looks in a mirror

Exam 4

• 11.13
  • Women gain in education, but not power, study finds
  • Turkey's hero, behind the bronze veneer
  • Islamist insurgents take Somali port city without a fight
  • Europe relaxes rules on sale of ugly fruits and vegetables.
• 11.17
  • In a bold move, Karzai offers safe passage to Taliban leader if he agrees to talk
  • Germany's green party elects first ethnic turk as leader
  • Pact, Approved in Iraq, sets time for US pullout.
• 11.18
  • Pollution has leveled off, but the figures have holes, report says
  • Pirates seize Saudi tanker off Kenya; ship called the largest ever hijacked
• 11.19
  • A sea of unwanted imports
  • hijacked supertanker anchors off Somalia
  • Foreign reporters' group fights israeli prohibition on entering gaza.
• 11.20
  • Brawl halts session of Iraqi Parliament
  • Al Quade offers Obama insults and a warning
  • US urges merchant ships to try steps to foil pirates
• 11.21
  • Change in congress (both voluntary and in) proves to be more than a slogan
  • Judge declares five detainees held illegally
  • To fuel quest, Hezbollah harnesses youth piety
  • In baghdad, debating post-US outlook
• 11.24
  • In letter, Pope puts a focus on the limits of interfaith dialogue
  • Clash leaves civilian dead in Afghanistan
  • Farm's open harvest draws 40,000 in Colorado
• 12.1
  • Training today's legionnaires to fight (and eat rodents)
  • Going off to college for less (passport required)
• 12.2
  • India demand Pakistan hand over fugitives
  • Afghan strategy poses stiff challenge for Obama
  • Kurds defend policies in sharp rebuke to Iraqi government
• 12.3
  • Higher education may soon be unaffordable for most americans, report says
  • Afghan refugees return home but find only a life of desperation
  • Clinton's welcome will include a plate of global crises
  • US and India link attacks to militants in Pakistan
• 12.4

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