PRI: Public Radio International VIDEO: NATO protests smaller than expected, but still disruptive for Chicagoans ================================================================================ The Takeaway on 21 May, 2012 11:37:00 In Chicago Monday, NATO leaders were wrapping up their two-day summit focused largely on the future of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, outside, protesters targeted the leaders as well as major businesses in an effort to draw attention to their grievances. Nigerian man goes to China to find 'American dream,' launches social network ================================================================================ PRI's The World on 21 May, 2012 10:25:00 Spartan Arinze is pursuing the American dream, in China. He's created a social network for Nigerians and Nigerians living in China called Gbooza! It's part Facebook, part Huffington Post and completely devoted to Nigerians. It's not a run-away success yet, but Arinze is confident. Small drone used to catch polluting mafioso in the act ================================================================================ PRI's The World on 21 May, 2012 09:58:00 Environmental dumping is a major problem in Italy, and its source can often be tracked back to organized crime. A new, small unmanned aerial vehicle is being tested to help not only catch polluters in the act, but track pollution back to its source. Istanbul stirs passion with ban on shouting in open-air market ================================================================================ PRI's The World on 21 May, 2012 09:00:00 Istanbul is trying to show that it's becoming a more modern society and as part of that, some officials have decided they need to curtail certain practices. Among them is a ban on shouting in Istanbul's famous open-air market. Tensions high between Israelis and undocumented African migrants ================================================================================ PRI's The World on 21 May, 2012 08:00:00 A number of Africans, especially from Eritrea, are coming to Israel in search of protection from persecution back home. But they're not finding a warm welcome, and now politicians there are talking about rounding them up and deporting them out of the country. PRI receives $1.6 million to support global health and development reporting, online engagement initiatives ================================================================================ PRI on 21 May, 2012 02:20:00 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:MINNEAPOLIS, May 21, 2012 — Public Radio International (PRI) announces that it has received a two-year, $1.6 million grant from the Bill & Schools trying to get parents up-to-speed on social hosting laws ================================================================================ Here & Now on 18 May, 2012 11:10:00 Under laws in about 28 states, parents who provide alcohol to their children in their own homes can be prosecuted. The new laws are putting in parents in prison and one high school in Massachusetts is trying to educate parents about the laws as a way to curtail the practice. As depicted in new Sacha Cohen movie 'The Dictator,' tyrants have long loved films ================================================================================ Here and Now on 18 May, 2012 09:30:00 Sacha Baron Cohen's latest satire "The Dictator" opened Wednesday. The film stars Cohen as the power-mad leader of a fictional North African country. Long before Cohen arrived on the scene, many of history's most notorious dictators were fans of the film industry. Microsoft pledges to become carbon neutral ================================================================================ Living on Earth on 18 May, 2012 08:00:00 Software giant Microsoft hopes to become carbon neutral by tracking and self-taxing its carbon output and investing in clean energy and efficiency. Republicans, Democrats, come out strongly against negative Obama ad campaign ================================================================================ Here & Now on 17 May, 2012 02:47:00 Early Thursday the New York Times reported word of an ad campaign being considered by a major conservative donor. It would have tried to tie President Barack Obama to controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright. But just as fast as the story broke, Republicans and Democrats condemned it and the project was quickly cancelled.