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Thursday, March 13, 2008

World

Attitude Adjustment: article on the “American businesswoman” busted in Saudi Arabia for patronizing the Riyadh Starbucks in the company of a male colleague.
Kaboom: A Soldier's War Journal: Wisdom from the Homefront: ...my favorite portion of the miscellaneous stack of our mail room are the letters written to soldiers by American schoolchildren.
Man Thrown In Jail In Dubai, For Having 0.003 Grams Of Cannabis Stuck To His Shoe: A Briton, traveling through Dubai on his way to England, was arrested and sentenced to 4 years in jail, for having a microscopic piece of cannabis stuck to the bottom of one of his shoes.
Blowback from the GOP's holy war against Muslims: That sort of wild-eyed bigotry only fuels the cycle of mistrust and vengeance.
Al Qaeda use two Down's syndrome women to blow up 99 people in Baghdad markets: Al Qaeda fanatics plumbed to sickening new depths ...when they turned two women with Down's syndrome into human bombs to kill 99 people in Baghdad.
Reimagining Cities: Cities are now home to half of the world's 6.6 billion humans. By 2030, nearly 5 billion people will live in cities. This special issue explores the enormous implications of the mass embrace of city life.
Namco blames Wii for arcade closures in Japan: Namco Bandai is shuttering between 50 and 60 arcades in Japan, and it's laying the blame squarely on Nintendo's shoulders
Woman Applying for New ID Says She's 120 :: WRAL.com: if confirmed, that would make her the oldest person in the world.
TEDBlog: 14 ways to fix the future: The National Academies' "Grand Challenges for Engineering" list, released yesterday, runs down the 14 most pressing issues we must face in the 21st century.
Company seeks tax exemption for bribes - Yahoo! News: Some companies request tax deductions for philanthropy, others for restaurants bills. But one Israeli business tried to push the envelope by asking to deduct nearly $860,000 it paid in kickbacks.
Iran nixes candidacy of Ayatollah Khomeini's grandson: The grandson of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini described his ban from next month's parliamentary elections Thursday as an insult to his family and said he would never beg to run.
BBC NEWS | India court in moustache notice: India's Supreme Court has issued a notice to a state-run airline asking it to explain why an air steward was sacked for wearing a big moustache.
The Children of Iraq: What's it like to be kids in the war zone?
Mexico cops offered cash to slim: Heavyweight police officers in one Mexican city could soon be offered cash bonuses if they slim down.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Pleas for condemned Saudi 'witch': Human Rights Watch has appealed to Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a woman convicted of witchcraft.
Afghan Journalism Student Sentenced to Death for Reading...: Six years after "liberation," civil rights are getting worse in Afghanistan.
Top 9 unique structures soon to be built: below are 9 strange and unique structures which have either been approved or are in the final stages of approval. some have already been partially constructed. welcome to the future landscape.

Posted by KenW at 9:04 AM
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Monday, February 04, 2008

World News

Stress...: Westerners and Americans in particular, keep complaining that their lives are so stressful...
The Miniature Earth: If the world were 100 people, what would it look like?
Minoru Morimoto: What gives you the right to lecture...: As a result of Japan's research programme, we now know more about the status of whale stocks and whale biology than at any time in history and this knowledge increases each year.
The Most Dangerous Road In World: It runs in the Bolivian Andes, 70 km from La Paz to Coroico, and plunges down almost 3,600 meters in an orgy of extremely narrow hairpin curves and 800-meter abyss near-misses.
Stricter Rules for US-Canadian Border Begin: The US government is beginning to implement tighter ID rules for US-Canadian border crossings.
Fifty dead in Sri Lanka clashes: Fierce fighting erupted in northern Sri Lanka ...as government forces mounted a fresh push into territory held by Tiger rebels, with the official death toll from the new clashes at more than 50.
Russia could use nuclear arms pre-emptively: general: In Soviet times, military doctrine stated Moscow would not use nuclear arms first in any confrontation with the West. With the decline of its conventional forces in the 1990s, Moscow dropped this element of its policy.
Scientists make bird flu breakthrough: Scientists are a step closer to cracking the deadly bird flu code following the development of a safe technique to study the virus by Australian researchers.
Soviet icon surprises polar scientists: In the middle of no-where – literally the point on Antarctica furthest from the sea – an imposing bust of revolutionary Bolshevik Vladimir Lenin peers out onto the polar emptiness.
The famous 'Afghan Girl' from 1984: Pic: Revisiting The famous 'Afghan Girl' from National Geographic. Greatest eye color of all time!
Metrophobia: ...63 percent of passengers feel unsafe in the Moscow metro. The stress brought about by underground travel can be caused by various factors and has been attributed to overcrowding, bad air circulation during rush hour, the fear of being pick-pocketed, as well as a feeling of claustrophobia.
How To: Get 100 Gallons Of Heating Oil For Free: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wants to give you 100 gallons of free heating oil to help survive the cold cruel capitalist winter. The hogshead of liquid warmth is available to anyone enduring a financial hardship who fills out a handy online form.
World loses trees at 'alarming' rate: Experts still warn of extinction of animal and plant life, of the loss of forest peoples' livelihoods, of soil erosion and other damage. But scientists today worry urgently about something else: the fateful feedback link of trees and climate.
Cuba: No talks till Bush leaves: Cuba is not interested in improving relations with the United States while President Bush is in office and will wait for a change in leadership before extending anew an offer for dialogue
Google Earth emerging as popular online application: Google Mail might be the most popular application in Google’s software arsenal but when it comes to casual use, perhaps Google Earth takes the cake.
India faces bird flu 'disaster': Eight districts in the eastern state of West Bengal have been hit by the virus, with dead birds being sold to locals who are said to be "feasting" on cheap chicken.
Inventor sacrifices family, savings to help world's poor: Nunez wonders if he'd get more respect if he hailed from Silicon Valley instead of this tiny Central American nation, where he toils in obscurity at a small private university.
Ancient "Lost City" Discovered in Peru, Official Claims: Ruins recently discovered in southern Peru could be the ancient "lost city" of Paititi, according to claims that are drawing serious but cautious response from experts.
Update on Iraqi Casualty Data: Further survey work undertaken by ORB, in association with its research partner IIACSS, confirms our earlier estimate that over 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens have died as a result of the conflict which started in 2003.
Inside a Female-Circumcision Ceremony: Female circumcisers and their attendants... Eight picture slide show
Canada places U.S., Israel on torture watch list: Canada's foreign ministry has put the United States and Israel on a watch list of countries where prisoners risk being tortured and also classifies some U.S. interrogation techniques as torture, according to a document obtained by Reuters
Slavery in the fields: The real price of sugar: "The Price of Sugar" is a powerful documentary about the plight of Haitians toiling on sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic.
Australia to apologize to Aborigines: Australia will issue its first formal apology its indigenous people next month, the government announced Wednesday, a milestone that could ease tensions with a minority whose mixed-blood children were once taken away on the premise that their race was doomed.
Thumbs Race as Japan’s Best Sellers Go Cellular: ...last month, the year-end best-seller tally showed that cellphone novels, republished in book form, have not only infiltrated the mainstream but have come to dominate it.
2007 in Iraq: Shocking graphic of last year in iraq

Posted by KenW at 6:48 AM
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

World News

Immigration Ground Zero: The new ground zero in the debate over illegal immigration is Arizona, where the nation's toughest and potentially most far-reaching crackdown on undocumented workers and their employers is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1
Tragic Last Resort For U.K.'s Asian Wives, For Some Women...: For Some Women Who Move From India To Britain For Marriage, All Hope Is Lost
Articles on Condoms and Safe Sex Resources, Relationship...: One shortage that does not get as much press, however, is the condom shortage that is happening across the globe.
Russian GPS alternative near completion, Putin and dog...: The GPS competitor ...is now theoretically capable of providing coverage to the entire Russian territory
Go ahead, egg my Hummer, says Russian: A Hummer owner in Russia's second city St. Petersburg has given antiglobalists the green light to pelt his oversized vehicle with rotten eggs
Bird Flu Good news at last!: By adding an agent that stimulates the immune system, it appears that the existing vaccine is effective against various strains of the bird flu virus.
And now for more good news: Eat, drink and be merry, because in future it may be very expensive to eat and drink and there will be very little to be merry about.
The great fall of China: "China, it turns out, isn't a $10-trillion economy on the brink of catching up with the United States. It is a $6-trillion economy, less than half our size."
Energy Independence: How Denmark Kicked Its Foreign Oil Habit: In 1976 the Danish public got behind an ambitious (and expensive) program to become entirely energy-independent
Akash.jpg: Think your job's a headache; check this out...
Inventor sacrifices family, savings to help world's poor: Nunez wonders if he'd get more respect if he hailed from Silicon Valley instead of this tiny Central American nation, where he toils in obscurity at a small private university.
World Outsources Pregnancies to India: More than 50 women in this city are now pregnant with the children of couples from the United States, Taiwan, Britain and beyond. The women earn more than many would make in 15 years.
What’s Your Consumption Factor?: The average rates at which people consume resources like oil and metals, and produce wastes like plastics and greenhouse gases, are about 32 times higher in North America, Western Europe, Japan and Australia than they are in the developing world.
Severe food shortages, price spikes threaten world population: Worldwide food prices have risen sharply and supplies have dropped this year, according to the latest food outlook of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The agency warned ...that the changes represent an “unforeseen and unprecedented” shift in the global food system, threatening billions with hunger and decreased access to food.
Japanese Fears Raised As ‘Warlike UFO’ Targets Mars: Russian Security Analysts are reported to be joining Japan’s concerns over a series of ‘mysterious’ events occurring in space which, perhaps, suggests that the planet Mars is being ‘targeted’ by an ‘unknown’ alien spacecraft that has been transiting through our Solar System ‘disguised’ as a comet.
78 feared killed by landslides - Asia-Pacific - msnbc.com: 61 buried while they were celebrating cleanup of a home hit earlier
Tsunami aid 'spent on politics': Three years after Australians donated $400 million to rebuild Asian lives devastated by the 2004 tsunami, aid groups are under attack for spending much of the money on social and political engineering.

Posted by KenW at 11:15 AM
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