Always on Sundays: Development and Underdevelopment - Introducing Celso Furta...

I am the escaped one,After I was bornThey locked me up inside meBut I left.My soul seeks me,Through hills and valley,I hope my soulNever finds me. Fernando Pessoa " The Brazilian economist Celso Furtado, Nobel Prize...

Thousands of honeybees swarm motorists on New Jersey Turnpike

Drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike got a bit of a shock this weekend when thousands of honeybees swarmed the highway.I can't even stand one bee near my window let alone thousands of them enveloping my car!" Turnpike...

iPhone 3G: Sold out in 21 states

"Shoppers hunting for iPhone 3Gs can still find them — if they’re willing to get up early and, in some cases, drive long distances. As of 6:00 a.m. EDT Tuesday, all three models (8GB black, 16 GB black or white) of the hot-selling device were sold out in 21 states,...

Rutgers Quarterly Business Outlook Panel 7/15/2008

Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA - Tuesday July 15, 2008: Rutgers University School of Business Administration at Camden and the Chamber of Commerce of Southern New Jersey hosted the Quarterly Business Outlook, sponsored...

Crews keeping watch over Tennessee tanker spill

A tanker crashed in Cumberland County a few hours, and is leaking a volatile compound. Reports are just describing it as a 'hazardous material'. Police and emergency crews on on scene and waiting for a replacement truck to collect the remaining cargo.Authorities say that 9...

U.S. exports cigarettes, bras, bull semen to Iran

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. exports to Iran -- including brassieres, bull semen, cosmetics and possibly even weapons -- grew more than tenfold during President Bush's years in office even as he accused Iran of nuclear ambitions and helping terrorists. ...

Solar Power competes with high Oil Prices, Here comes the Sun

Here's a trivia question: What state has installed more solar panels than any other except California? If you said New Jersey, your solar energy IQ is brilliant. And if you know why several thousand huge mirrors...

July 4th boater Steer clear of NJ dolphin family

Authorities protecting a dolphin family in a New Jersey river are stepping up enforcement over the July Fourth holiday.   State police and federal officials monitoring the dolphins said there were no immediate...

Body parts plot leader sentenced

is this for real?? all body parts belongs to our creator so call GOD...we don't have any right to do so...   " A US dentist who masterminded a scheme to steal body parts from hundreds of corpses has been...

Man Fights to Have Lenin Statue Removed From Casino

" ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey —  Since the day a statue of Vladimir Ilich Lenin went up outside the trendy Red Square restaurant at the Tropicana Casino and Resort in 2005, Al Garrett has wanted it torn...

Radiohead Begins Carbon Neutral World Tour

Of the many reasons to love Radiohead, perhaps the most important is that they simply lead by example: creatively, musically, ethically, socially, comunally, digitally and, now, environmentally."After Primavera Sound...

Sorry, Says the Body Thief

Being that it's Friday the 13th and all, I was disappointed that news of the macabre was not clotting and clogging my reading this morning. Until now."A New Jersey dentist behind a scheme to steal body parts from corpses, including that of British journalist Alistair Cooke,...

Stormy Weather Got Me and 90.000 other New Jerseyans Power Less

Besides the heavy rain and all the downed trees, last night heavy storm got me and 90.000 plus other New Jersey residents power less.The lack of electricity lasted for some 14 hours.Local schools were closed today.No morning coffee.I have to decide what food to throw out...

Baby With Rare Tumor Born Twice, Now Healthy 4-Week-Old

" Little Macie McCartney was welcomed into the world not once — but twice.Four months into Keri McCartney's pregnancy, doctors reportedly noticed a tumor growing on the baby's tailbone.Doctors discovered that the...

The Gas Prices We Deserve

Here's a great column from George Will. "Rising in the Senate on May 13, Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat, explained: "I rise to discuss rising energy prices." The president was heading to Saudi Arabia to seek an increase in its oil production, and Schumer's gorge was...

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