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Stories and News No. 658 Saturday, March 29 will be the eighth Earth Hour Day , an event organized by WWF to raise awareness about the global warming problem. In particular, it aims to increase energy savings, since the organizers consider it accountable for the high temperature of the planet, inviting participants to turn off the lights at a specific time of the day. However, if the fate of the planet is at stake and if we speak about Earth Hour, I think we must give space to the point of view of those who have less attention than us. Indeed, not having any guilt about what is happening, they should have more... Aye - Aye . This is my common name. Daubentonia madagascariensis , for the record. The Slow , for friends. No hard feelings, that’s clear. I'm slow, I'm not ashamed. I always have been. Last to arrive. And last to enter. Last to go up. And, above all, the last to understand, that’s clear. That’s why I hope you will be lenient if understanding you will...

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Stories and News No. 656 Katheryn Deprill found her mother after having spread on Facebook her desire to know her. The girl, now 28 years old, was abandoned on September 15, 1986 in the bathroom of a fast food from her mother, who was then 16 years old, pregnant after being raped. It happened in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States. It happens also that to many that wish remains just a wish. Today story is for them... One, is the mother . Many, they say. All different in many aspects, the same for the few. But still too many, some claim. Yet one is the mother. Because, without exception, all children and parents on the respective banks of the river made by indifferent chances and aware atrocities came from the same mother. Not mom. The emotional way does not get the right idea. Mother , or the one who generates, is one. And the descendants are innumerable. Sorry, but that's how things go, here. In the unexpected incubators. Actually, not unexpected. Wrong is...

Stories and News No. 655 Please, may I have your attention? I will tell you a story, the story of a mask. I present myself: my name is Sunset. Yes, that magic between day and night moment, that fascinating and uncertain, full of mystery instant... I was born in that time. My parents in front of a wonderful sunset conceived me too. My father was Darkness and my mother Light and although they were different like day and night, although sunset was the only possible moment to meet each other, they had no problem to marry, live and love just in that unique and beautiful time. However I would not tell you about my special parents. I would speak about me, if you will be so nice to listen my story. Since I was a baby first difficulties came up when I saw that my mother Light had, and still has, a right for her world, where everything is clear: the day world, the lightness of things world. The world where white and lucid skin's, delicate face's and thin lips' people live....

Stories and News No. 654 It happens in the USA that two executions are postponed because of an essential shortage. I am referring to the lethal drug to be injected into the veins of the condemned. So, here is the story of the blessed shortages... I was thinking, in the meantime. I was thinking about the fact that in a few moments, better of grueling fights to abolish an inhumane remedy to many abominable acts, there is a mere absence. Rather than a deafening full of crowded squares, real or virtual, with petitions and slogans, progressive commercials and demanding songs. And just thinking about the paradox of civil battles, here I discovered this was not the only miracle, but parent of a succession of unexpected surprises. The boy, who in other billion occasions would spread into the air like corianders in the wind, due to a wrong foot on the explosive flower donated by liberator soldiers, was saved. Yes, mine did not explode and he was saved. Because of shortage of courag...

Stories and News No. 653 ) One hundred reasons not to die as children 1. Because I don’t want to die. 2. Because despite being poor, I am glad to be born. 3. Because when I laugh my mother seems less sad. 4. Because tomorrow is my birthday. 5. Because it was yesterday and I have not celebrated, but my dad has promised that next year will be different. 6. Because I make funny faces better than all my brothers. 7. Because I believe that one day I will run faster than Bolt. 8. Because last night I had a dream and I would do it again the next. 9. Because I have not yet learned how to talk, but when it will happen I will have a lot of things to say. 10. Because I have never seen the sea, and they told me it's beautiful. 11. Because when I’ll grow up I'm gonna be strong like Cristiano Ronaldo 12. Because if Obama became President of the United States, I have a few chances here too. 13. Because if I die, I want it to happen for a more important reason. 14. Because I...

Stories and News No. 652 According to a study released in 2003 by the University of Maryland concluded that race, along with geography, is an important factor in death penalty decisions. Prosecutors are more likely to seek the death penalty when the race of the victim is white and less likely when the race of the victim is African-American . His name is Glenn Ford and he is 64 years old. No, he’s not the actor , who died long ago. He is the other . The other famous guy, today. He has something in common with him, though. He is a free man. But it was not always so. Nevertheless, he’s back now, 2014 United States of America. And he is black. His name is Glenn and he has come to light in 1950. He was born so, black. In 1950, schools, public places, buses and trains were still split in half by an idiot in the form of invisible wall . Whites on one side and black on the other. The other part of this world has never been the best one. America was no exception. No dou...

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Stories and News No. 650 I just read the top ten list of the most expensive towns to live. Singapore leads the ranking, followed by Paris, Oslo, Zurich, Sydney, a group tied made by Caracas, Geneva, Tokyo and Melbourne and the at tenth there is Copenhagen. On the other hand, in my humble opinion, it all depends on who you are. Or, speaking of money, if you're a billionaire does not make so much difference where you live, as well as penniless or unemployed people could find hard life everywhere. However, not only money is what moves human lives, isn’t it? Lisa is an inveterate dreamer and the most expensive city for her is the richest of illusions town, where instead Andrew found an easier life, because he did not dream even when he had every right to do it, let alone when he realized that it has a cost. Speaking of cost, the most expensive city for George, fanatic of the present moment, is the most hectic town, where everyone runs and nobody has time for the time. Onl...

Stories and News No. 649 Today is the first World Wildlife Day , an event dedicated to the wild flora and fauna. Imagine to celebrate it in reverse. Consequently, the celebrated ones and the celebrants would be upturned... We know this is not easy. It never is. We have our problems, and nature repeat it every day. Reminding us where we are. Who we are. And who can hurt us with impunity. Them . Every moment of our negligible existence. Even without realizing what they did. Unaware they had killed. Or even tortured. Yet here we are, on this day, to say that they too are living creatures. They also have the right to live on this planet. They too are here to survive, not to live. Because the mere existence has never been the purpose of all. Remaining is. Like all of us, anyway. We know, it is not understandable. Much of what we see on the other side of the river shows how it is absurd from every point of view. Even they know. But who of us could claim the right to...