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Chemicals in your Body Care Products

Chemicals in your Body Care Products

Since the beginning of petroleum ingredients in the mid 1900s, chemicals found in personal care prod...

RSPCA Qld Million Paws Walk 2012

RSPCA Qld Million Paws Walk 2012

With 30 locations across Queensland, the RSPCA Million Paws Walk continues to be one of the most pop...

Will you take up the challenge to be a Mater Healthy Hero?

Will you take up the challenge to be a Mater Healthy Hero?

Mater Healthy Hero is a six week health and wellbeing challenge held during May—June 2012 that helps...

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Banking on the Future


Banking on the Future The World Bank has gone into the national park business. While financing a large dam on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, the Bank insisted on protecting 800,000 acres of forest on the watershed above the dam. The trees regulate water runoff and prevent the dam from silting up. Since many endangered species live there, the forest has become a tropical research station, bringing in foreign exchange from visiting scientists.