In 2005, the United Nations held an emergency to announce the startling fact that within the next 30 years, the world’s great apes will ALL be extinct. In other words, […]
Monthly Archives: September 2005
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Petje Schroeder has spent the last decade helping Jews from all over the world tie together the threads of their Polish history and rediscover family past and present. She also […]
Over the past decade, more than 400,000 asylum-seekers have come to Holland. Many of them were fleeing war, torture, or political or ethnic persecution. Large numbers of them were traumatised […]
New York author Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” is part of a wave of what has been dubbed “post-9/11 fiction”. But some critics say not enough […]
Tourists visiting Amsterdam often marvel at the thousands of houseboats lining the famous canals. Are they safe? Are they like real houses? And above all, why do so many people […]