Earthly beauty.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] German photographer Klaus D Francke has spent 30 years photographing the Earth from the air. He flies at heights of between 300 and 1,500 metres, largely in a Cessna 1-72, the world's best-selling aeroplane. Each flight is meticulously planned to catch a certain season, light,...

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations 2007.
ANNUAL REVIEW OF GLOBAL PEACE OPERATIONS 2007 Center on International Cooperation Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2007. 391pp, US$25.00 paper (ISBN 9781588265098) The world is a better place because of the United Nations: because it exists, because of what it does, and because of...

UN warns on global food crisis; Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urges int'l action.
Byline: VERONIKA OLEKSYN VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- The United Nations Secretary-General sounded a warning Friday about rocketing food prices, saying it has developed into a "real global crisis.'' Ban Ki-moon said the UN was very concerned, as were all members of the international community. ...

College Town.
Byline: Lisa D. Welsh COLUMN: COLLEGE TOWN Penned A big plus of living in College Town is the vast array of authors, experts and all-around ponder-ers here. No need to watch "Oprah" or "Dr. Phil" for parenting tips with a new book co-authored...

Zeitchriften.
Sprachheilarbeit. 2/08 * Schonauer-Schneider, W.: Monitoring des Sprachverstehens (MSV), comprehension monitoring--Welche Bedeutung hat es fur Kinder mit rezeptiven Sprachstorungen, 72-82 * Subellok, K., Katz-Bernstein, N., Vinbruck, C.: "Stottern und Schule"--Sichtweisen und Erwartungen von Eltern stotternder Kinder, 83-94 * Saaifan, M.: Zwei Sprachen--ein Gehirn....

Levels of intimate partner violence vary greatly according to country and rural or urban setting.
The prevalence of intimate partner violence toward women varies greatly across settings, according to a 15-site study conducted in 10 countries (Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, Japan, Namibia, Peru, Samoa, Serbia and Montenegro, Thailand and Tanzania). (1) The proportion of ever-partnered women who reported ever having experienced either sexual or physical...

ART NOTES.
Byline: The Register-Guard Paintings by Maurice Van on show at White Lotus White Lotus Gallery is featuring a new exhibit by Maurice Van, who arranges blocks of wood in various configurations and makes a visual record of those he likes. ``Playing With Blocks:...

Geographical: Young Geographer of the Year 2007: this year, the Geographical Young Geographer of the Year competition attracted around 2,000 entries from students all over the country, who pondered the question, can recycling save the world?
'It's one thing to see global warming stories on TV or in the press--quite another to ski across Greenland and see huge puddles of water, to fly over the Antarctic Peninsula and see ice shelves floating,' said Paul Rose, explorer and television presenter, at the annual Young Geographer of...

Where in the world?
IDENTIFY THIS COUNTRY USING THE FOLLOWING CLUES: * Its coastline is almost twice as long as its land borders * It has the world's lowest rate of church attendance * Less than eight per cent of its land is arable *...

Bauer, Gretchen, and Hannah E. Britton, eds. Women in African Parliaments.
Bauer, Gretchen, and Hannah E. Britton, eds. Women in African Parliaments. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2006. viii + 237 pages. Cloth, $49.95. Most African democracies are young--less than fifty years old--yet some of them have achieved a high degree of female representation in national assemblies compared...