Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revoluion, has passed away at his home in Dallas, Texas, at the age of 95. Borlaug died from complications of cancer. He was one of only five people who had won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the...
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Could classroom disruptions on the University of Oklahoma campus last week have been "dry runs" conducted by a terrorist group? That question has been nagging at me ever since I read newspaper reports in the student-run campus newspaper, OU Daily, and in the Tulsa World. On...
Thomas Friedman quotes Norman Ornstein in today's Times: "What we can do now, though, said the Congressional scholar Norman Ornstein, co-author of “The Broken Branch,” is “ask President Bush to appoint Tim Geithner, Barack Obama’s proposed Treasury...
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When the real estate market drops, blame the ghost !"A millionaire businessman from Nottinghamshire has said ghosts forced him to flee his 52-room mansion. Clifton Hall was bought by Anwar Rashid for £3.6m in 2007, but he has now handed it back to the bank. Mr Rashid claimed...
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"Actor allegedly beat cat to death in jealous rage" NEW YORK (AP) -- Trial has begun for a baseball player-turned-actor accused of brutally killing a cat in a jealous rage after complaining that his ex-girlfriend cared more for the furry feline than she did for him. ...
"A "Sex and the City" actor's claim that he killed his girlfriend's cat in self-defense suffered a blow Wednesday with revelations that the tabby was declawed.Joseph Petcka, who is on trial on charges of felony cruelty, claims he was being attacked by the 7-pound pussy named...
Norman Whitfield, the architect of some of Motown Records biggest hits, has died in Los Angeles due to complications from diabetes. Along with collaborator Barrett Strong, Whitfield helped define the Motown Sound,...
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown goes into battle this week with a special meeting designed to brief interested parties in a new set of policies and with the firm message he has no intention to stand down. The...
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South Africa have refused to send their team to take part in the Champions Trophy if it was staged in Pakistan due to security fears. They have requested the International Cricket Council to reschedule the tournament.Read full article
Here we get a long and considered article on Canada's oil sand bonanza or environmental disaster depending on how you view it. Alberta as the new Kuwait. John Vidal's piece is a mixture of sound fact and...
" BLUSHING bride Olivia Newton-John wed her health guru husband John Easterling twice in less than 10 days - the first being a secret Incan ceremony on a Peruvian mountaintop. Newton-John, 59, and millionaire...
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Brown's choice in art is conventional in many respects and shows a good solid taste if perhaps a little dark. The Hodgkin piece with typically the painting going on to the actual frame is an interesting choice. "...
" ........Comparing Iran with the 1939 Nazi Germany is ridiculous. Germany was a powerful, industrialized nation that had been defeated in World War I. It had grievances against the victors who had humiliated it. Germany's culture was such that many Germans blindly...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor For Now Public Readers, I have some knowledge of this case. This person has many strikes against him, fraud using a forged passport, soon marrying a lovelorn French Canadian woman, some say was duped in order for him to stay...
While the United States "...remained one of the world's few democracies in which leading Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Trans-gender (LGBT) groups failed to organize even one single public IDAHO (International Day...