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Clooney sickness puts global warming on South Sudan agenda

Last Friday’s revelation that Hollywood superstar, George Clooney, contracted malaria during a visit to observe the South Sudan referendum may deliver an unintended wake-up call to the architects of the new state.

Published January 24, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate change, malaria, sudan, yahoo
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Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with local renewable energy, Hampshire Hogs Cricket, Winchester Poetry Festival and City of Winchester Trust. Still playing fives and real tennis. Views my own. Please respect copyright.

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things