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June 11, 2007 An Unsustainable Development Click here to launch the Podcast Player If there's a hell on earth, it's probably Zimbabwe. Life expectancies in the landlocked nation in the South of Africa are the world's lowest. Reports say women live an average of 35 years; men a bit longer. Four in five people are unemployed. Government printing presses run day and night to produce enough money to keep the military from rebelling, so inflation is at an annual rate of 3,700 percent and rising. Cash loses over ten percent of its value everyday. It wasn't always that way. Before...

Apr. 19, 2006 22:32 | Updated Apr. 20, 2006 6:14 Disarmament board chooses Iranian By NATHAN GUTTMAN WASHINGTON As the international community looks into ways of stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons, an Iranian representative was elected to be the vice chair of the UN's disarmament commission. The commission, which began its annual conference last week, was established by the UN General Assembly in the early 50's in order to promote disarmament and to review international treaties dealing with nuclear energy. The commission does not have any authority to enforce its decisions and is not connected to the International Atomic...