Gaming for social change.
GAMES FOR CHANGE FESTIVAL NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH NEW YORK CITY JUNE 2-4, 2008 Forming a glittering sea of laptop computer screens, the fifth annual Games for Change Festival convened three hundred game designers, scholars, digital-culture theoreticians, and representatives of...

New discoveries in the canellaceae in the antilles: how phylogeny can support taxonomy.
Taxonomic History The Canellaceae are a small tropical plant family of aromatic trees, rarely treelets and shrubs, with a disjunct occurrence between tropical and subtropical America (the Caribbean Region, Costa Rica and South America) and Africa (Madagascar and Eastern Africa). Six genera and ca. 21 species have...

Floristic richness and affinities in the West Indies.
Introduction The West Indies are an archipelago with more than one thousand islands that separate the Atlantic Ocean from the Caribbean Sea and cover a distance of 2,700 km from Barbados to the most western tip of Cuba (Howard, 1973). They are not in contact with the...

Business Agenda Report; Food Inflation.
Byline: Jorge Osit If you have been closely monitoring events across the globe, mostly unsettling and unfolding at a quickening tempo, you somehow get the sense that things are going off the handle. Just a few days ago, backdropped by the worsening food riots in...

Business Agenda Report; Food Inflation.
Byline: Jorge Osit If you have been closely monitoring events across the globe, mostly unsettling and unfolding at a quickening tempo, you somehow get the sense that things are going off the handle. Just a few days ago, backdropped by the worsening food riots in...

Business Agenda Report; Food Inflation.
Byline: Jorge Osit If you have been closely monitoring events across the globe, mostly unsettling and unfolding at a quickening tempo, you somehow get the sense that things are going off the handle. Just a few days ago, backdropped by the worsening food riots in...

Marie Sylvain.
CLINTON - Marie J. Sylvain, 48, died on Friday, June 6, at Leominster Hospital after a lengthy illness. She is survived by her beloved son, Christian J. Sylvain of Fitchburg; her mother, Marie Sylvain of Mattapan; a brother, Feen Sylvain of Clinton; two sisters, Vonette Maxi and...

Haitian drum master is out to clear up misperceptions.
Byline: Serena Markstrom The Register-Guard Gaston Jean-Baptiste, who goes by Bonga, knows something you most likely do not. He knows about the healing power of Afro-Haitian music from his home country. Now based in New York, the drum master visits Lane County for a concert...

MASTER mixes humor, wisdom and rhythm.
Byline: Lewis Taylor The Register-Guard It's not every day a Haitian master drummer comes to Pleasant Hill, but there he was, the musical virtuoso known as Bonga, teaching a dozen aspiring musicians of all ages and abilities how to drum, dance and "respect one another without negativity."...

WB urges action vs rising food prices.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The President of the World Bank on Sunday urged immediate action to deal with rapidly rising food prices that have caused hunger and deadly violence in several countries. Robert Zoellick said the international community has "to put our money where our mouth is" and...