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September 2012
No Satisfaction

2012: Women in the West African nation of Togo recently called for a sex strike in protest of the continuing occupation of governmental leadership by President Faure Gnassingbe, whose family has been a force in Togoan politics for several decades. Gnassingbe has been accused of election fraud and using police... ...

Waste Not, Want Not

2012: New York and other cities with aging infrastructure are increasingly faced with a problem no one wants to think about—waste of the most personal kind. The city’s sewers, constructed in the late nineteenth century are no longer sufficient to keep sewage from overflowing and spilling into the harbor, posing... ...

To the Dogs

2012: Monty, a Welsh Corgi belonging to Queen Elizabeth and the star of a recent Olympics-related James Bond short, has died at the age of thirteen. Descended from, a Corgi given to the Queen by her father on her eighteen birthday, Monty was regularly seen traveling with the Royal family,... ...

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