The University of Notre Dame provides a distinctive voice in higher education that is at once rigorously intellectual, unapologetically moral in orientation, and firmly embracing of a service ethos.
Founded in 1842 by a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, Notre Dame is an independent, national Catholic research university located adjacent to the city of South Bend, Indiana, in a metropolitan area of more than 300,000 residents approximately 90 miles east of Chicago.
Food systems are increasingly disrupted by climate disasters, while also being a major contributor to climate change. World leaders at COP28 are vowing to do something about it.
Protesters around the world have called for a stop to the fighting between Israel and Hamas.
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Calls for a cease-fire in Gaza are driven by humanitarian compassion and principles. But cease-fires are also technically complicated military and political ventures.
Em um grupo pequeno, com vida de subsistência, faz sentido que todos façam muitos trabalhos.
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Os corpos femininos têm uma vantagem na capacidade de resistência, o que significa que as mulheres do Paleolítico provavelmente caçavam animais e não só colhiam plantas.
In small-group, subsistence living, it makes sense for everyone to do lots of jobs.
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Female bodies have an advantage in endurance ability that means Paleolithic women likely hunted game, not just gathered plants. The story is written in living and ancient human bodies.
Supporters of Hezbollah have been rallying in Beirut in support of Palestinians in Gaza.
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Hezbolá domina las calles de Líbano, lo que da al gobierno pocas opciones en el caso de que la milicia opte por volcarse en la guerra de Hamás contra Israel.
Supporters of Hezbollah have been rallying in Beirut in support of Palestinians in Gaza.
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Hezbollah dominates Lebanon’s sectarian political system, giving the paralyzed government little choice if the militant group chooses to join Hamas’ war against Israel.
Food banks can operate on a large scale that requires expensive equipment and skilled management.
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As a powerful branch of government, the Supreme Court has enormous power over public policy only if defendants comply with its rulings.
A golden sculpture of the angel Moroni atop the temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Rexburg, Idaho.
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Breaching the Kakhovka Dam and reservoir had all the hallmarks of a scorched-earth strategy. Two expert observers of the Russia-Ukraine war explain this event’s destructive long-term effects.
President of the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone, Mohamed Konneh announcing partial election results in Freetown on June 26, 2023.
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Sierra Leone needs to rebuild public trust in its election by maintaining a completely transparent process.
Policemen keep a mob back as James Meredith, a Black student trying to enroll at the University of Mississippi, is driven away after being refused admittance to the all-white university in Oxford on Sept. 25, 1962.
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Finland was recently ranked, for the fifth year in a row, as the world’s happiest country. Trust in others in society plays a large role in what makes people there – and elsewhere – happy.
South Sudanese president Salva Kiir (right) and first vice president Riek Machar.
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A sociologist found in her research that many Americans who are opposed to abortion may nonetheless be willing to support a friend or family member seeking one.
Russia’s indiscriminate war in Ukraine has caused a large-scale humanitarian crisis.
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Instead of drawing on the lessons of its own negotiated settlement and its rich history of peace-making in Africa, Pretoria chose to appease Russia.
Russians in Moscow and elsewhere flocked to ATMs to withdraw cash, fearful that the ruble will plunge further due to Western sanctions.
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By working with allies, the Biden administration has been able to place severe sanctions on Russia – including targeting Putin’s inner circle and banning banks from SWIFT.