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• What Mitt Romney Doesn’t Get About Responsibility - Bloomberg

  "The problem is that he doesn’t seem to realize how difficult it is to focus on college when you’re also working full time, how much planning it takes to reliably commute to work without a car, or the agonizing choices faced by families in which both parents work and a child falls ill. The working poor haven’t abdicated responsibility for their lives. They’re drowning in it."

  tags: romney teabaggers teaparty republicans politics elections

• US aid agency told to shut Moscow office - FT.com

  "The US Agency for International Development is to close its offices in Moscow after Russia demanded that Washington put a halt to the organisation’s activities there, the US state department has said. The move, announced on Tuesday, is a further blow to relations between the US and Russia, which had been improving until Vladimir Putin’s return as president."

  tags: russia unitedstates development aid balanceofpower politics

• Dubai solar park ops to start by end-2013 - ArabianBusiness.com

  "The first phase of Dubai's $3.3bn solar park will be in operation by the end of 2013, Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) said on Tuesday. Speaking at the MENA Renewable Energy Forum, he said the Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park will have a 1,000MW capacity by 2030, and, upon completion, will be one of the biggest solar parks in the region."

  tags: solar renewablenergy dubai alternativeenergy middleeast uae

• Gaza Parkour Take to the Streets | Green Prophet

  "A budding physical discipline called parkour is attracting several youth in Gaza, aged between 12 and 23 years old to pass their time training in cemeteries, former Israeli settlements and in abandoned or run-down buildings. Parkour originated in the suburbs of Paris and originates from the French word “parcours,” meaning route or journey. In a very literal sense the sport is about overcoming obstacles, using your imagination and tackling the restraints of physical barriers to “run through” a journey. It inspires a philosophical outlook on life that reflects this acrobatic discipline."

  tags: gaza palestine athletics sports

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