WASHINGTON — About 50 American veterans of the Iraq War and other demonstrators gathered at the Canadian
Embassy in Washington yesterday to demand that the Canadian government allow hundreds of U.S. resisters to the Iraq conflict to remain in Canada
The presidential hopeful urged the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to either condemn
Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel or remain silent about events in Gaza
Amazing… and there are people in the world who do not have enough to eat,
or decent drinking water… But that’s not our problem, right?
Wrong.…
How many of us could find Dubai on the map in 5 minutes??
What a difference in 17 years.Just shows what a little oil money can do.
Amazing… and there are people in the world who do not have enough to eat,
or decent drinking water… But that’s not our problem, right?
NEW YORK (MarketWatch)
-- Lately, whenever the market has a bad day, the reflex among financial–news editors is to compare our
current situation with 1987 and wonder if a "Black Monday"–style crash is on the horizon, which
took place in 1929. As we know, that meltdown -- unlike the 1987 crash -- was not followed by a happy ending,
but rather by a decade of poverty, shantytowns and sporadic famine
A new computer-based text–searching tool developed by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers
automatically – and quickly – compares multiple documents in a database for similarities, providing
a more efficient method to carry out literature searches, as well as offering scientific journal
editors a new tool to thwart questionable publication practices
Farm–raised fish, with their rampant disease and unprecedented amounts of waste, are
now even threatening wild fish populations.
This entirely man–made creation has no place in nature, which is why I’d label all
farm–raised fish truly nasty
