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21 Jan 2010 09:46

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World: Haiti’s planning massive tent villages for refugees in Port-au-Prince

  • 400k people will be moved out of Port-au-Prince into massive tent cities
  • 100k refugees will be transported in the first relocation wave
  • 10k the planned population of each individual tent city source
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23 Dec 2009 13:33

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U.S.: With no housing boom, people are leaving Florida and other states

  • What we have is a decade of a roller coaster in terms of migration. If you look at the middle part of this decade, Florida led the country in net domestic migration. Now it’s in the negative part of the ledger.
  • Brookings Institution demographer William H. Frey • Discussing how states experiencing huge growth during the housing boom – specifically Florida, but a few others too – have had people leaving en masse after the financial crisis dried up housing. Despite this, there is some silver lining to be found – the numbers mean that these states will be eligible for more political representation after the 2010 census. source
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23 Apr 2009 10:59

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Offbeat, Tech: Soon, you too can move matter with your mind. (This is cool.)

If you think hard enough, you can think about moving a ball, then do it. We hope some geniuses hack this for iPhones. source
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