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The Voyager spacecraft were launched by scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1977 with the audacious goal of flying past the four outermost planets in our Solar System over a period of 12 years – at a time when it was still proving difficult to fly spacecraft on year-long journeys to the closer planets.
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Carly Fiorina said she is considering running for president in 2016, and laid out how, in her view, America has given up its leadership role in the world. Speaking to a dinner meeting of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council on Thursday, Fiorina said that a lot of people were encouraging her to run for the White House.
Five years after the devastating earthquake in Haiti that killed some 100,000 people and destroyed more than 250,000 buildings, the country has still not fully recovered, and a lack of leadership and wide-scale inefficiencies in the delivery of aid have meant much of the rebuilding remains to be done, according to Michèle Pierre-Louis, a former Prime Minister of Haiti.
Ebola is a scary disease, but it is containable if the proper procedures are put in place, and the hysterical reporting on cable television in the US has actually made the situation worse by discouraging health workers from going to Africa to help out, according to Margaret Aguirre, the Head of Global Initiatives for International Medical Corps (IMC) in Santa Monica.
As we approach the holidays and the end of the year, we can look back on an exciting series of programs at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council in recent months – and look forward to a new roster of interesting events for 2015.
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