Emergency contraceptive pills – benefitting whom?

While modern medicines are indispensable for curing us from illness and disease, all the medical formulations that the drug manufacturers market are not  helping the social or individual health cause. Among them are the formulations that prevent unwanted pregnancy as a...

Our Sexy Virgin Mary

Fashion designer, Ricardo Oyarzun has some Catholic groups’ panties in a bunch. Is he an ignorant scoundrel or just a financially savvy one?Oyarzun, most notable for his lack of notability in the fashion world, is sitting in the center of a cash-making storm of religious...

Kicking the Bottled Water Habit at Chez Panisse and Blue Plate

Since I never visited the Bay Area, I cannot pretend having first hand impressions on either restaurants.I did find out thanks to Kicking the bottle by Tracey Taylor (FT, November 1st) that a number of restaurants including these 2 are now serving filtered tap water.Tracey...

Look into profiteers’ pockets too

It is quite natural for doctoral degree-holding economists and financial analysts to absolutely fail in making out the grassroot meaning of the current world financial recession since they are too theory-oriented in their analysis and predictions. They basically look at what...

Oil companies make billions in profit from the increase in oil prices

"Exxon Mobil smashed its own record for quarterly profits yesterday, ringing up $14.83 billion in net income thanks to soaring summertime crude oil prices. But with crude oil prices now less than half their July peak and the economic outlook bleak, the record may stand for a...

Asian markets continue to slide; Nikkei down 414pts

Asian markets are once again down deep into red despite some bounce back on the Wall Street. Asian stock markets suffered fresh losses on Friday as fears grew that the financial crisis is taking a heavy toll on corporate earnings in the region. " ASIAN stock markets...