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List of endangered world monuments Afghanistan: Old City of Herat Argentina: Buenos Aires Historic Center, Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires Armenia: Aghjots Monastery, Garni Village Austria: Wiener Werkbundsiedlung, Vienna Bahrain: ...

There is a story that Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore had a romantic encounter with Victoria

If you had thought that swine flu had put an end to the social obligation of conference kissing, think again. The Blog has detected two major influences sweeping across the ...

Smalltalks 2009 (November 19-21 in Buenos Aires) has a website now. Go check it out! Technorati Tags: smalltalks , argentina , ...

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BUENOS AIRES - The failure of the international community to invest in adapting to climate change will jeopardise the world’s common future, the head of the UN Convention to Combat ...

Buenos Aires boasts impressive waiters, whose minds are worth studying, according to the paper Strategies of Buenos Aires Waiters to Enhance Memory Capacity in a Real-Life Setting, published in the ...

Surreal reflections - The National Congress at the mirror

Let’s get this straight. Household credit is shrinking… Profits are shrinking… Employment is shrinking… Housing values are shrinking… The wage base is shrinking… ...

BUENOS AIRES - The ninth conference of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) opened here Monday with a call for concrete measures to fight land degradation. “Planetary health ...