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Ebola in Spain: Dogs or People?

However, the public’s response to the dog’s death immediately brings up two issues for me: the first is how little we know about Ebola, and being faced with the possibility that the dog might infect a single human I would instantly place more value on that one human life than on the dog’s. Second, and most concerning of all, is this: who is marching for the thousands of human lives being lost every day in West Africa?
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A Call for Divestment: Responding to the Faces of Climate Change

Perhaps because we the students, faculty, and administration of our schools have never seen the faces of those most affected by climate change or toxic pollution. But if you’ve been around Jesuit education long enough and if you have read this far, the chances are that you have, you just didn’t know it. Odds are you have learned or spent time in places like the Philippines, Latin America, the Gulf Coast, or Appalachia—all places that have faced and will face tragedies because of climate change and fossil fuels.
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Senate Torture Report: Deception, Outrage, Nothing

The overall report shows that the Central Intelligence Agency employed torture techniques on individuals who were detained as potential threats to the United States between 2001 and 2006. The details are far more gruesome.