Aviation business is undergoing a tough time especially after soaring fuel price and many airlines are cutting short their routes and also doing exercise to control the cost. Now Air Canada, a big north...
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The platypus is really considered the strangest creature on the Earth........""The platypus is a very ancient offshoot of the mammal tree, so it was 166 million years ago that we last shared a common ancestor with...
"MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin accused the West of military expansion and laid out an ambitious agenda for his successor to restore Russia's economic and military clout in a farewell address Friday.
With less...
In this article Ray McGovern explores how the war against yet another enemy of the world, Iran, can be packaged and sold as a product we can't do without. Could this be done with the help of the usual...
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"Oscar winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has published a memo written by a health insurance company executive on how to respond to his new film, 'Sicko,' which criticizes shortcomings in America's current system of private medical insurance.
"[T]he impact on small...
"The U.S. has not had a serious political discussion about health care reform since the early 1990s, and the system is unraveling. In his latest book, Sick, Jonathan Cohn lays bare the consequences any one of us could suffer if we don't replace it.
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"The arrest and imprisonment of political opponents is nothing new in Egypt, which has been ruled by a succession of authoritarian leaders since 1952; secular democrats are in jail along with the Islamists. Egypt is generally rated as one of the more repressive countries in...
I found this story via boingboing. The operative phrase in this story is "without having to resort to the legal system". The Recording Industry Association of America seems to be getting more and more desperate.Personally, I was unaware that my Internet Service Provider was...
"A planned strike by thousands of British Airways cabin crew has been called off following a deal to end a bitter dispute over sickness absence, pay and staffing.
More than 120 hours of negotiations between the airline and the Transport and General Workers Union led to an...
"Today, Hugh Hewitt and the website "Truth Laid Bear" are helping to define the politics of the issue that lays between honest dissent and opposition with the policies and actions of a two time elected President in a...
"Employees in those bureaus said they were “shell-shocked,” as the news was delivered by speakerphone from New York by Larry Hackett, People’s managing editor.
The news “was not sugar-coated,” one employee said. A total of about 15 people work in the three bureaus;...
"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries?
Contents
1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006--------------------------------------
2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...
"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries?
Contents
1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006--------------------------------------
2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...
"A shortage of priests has some calling for a loosening of the traditional restrictions, but Benedict makes clear it won't happen on his watch.
Pope Benedict XVI believes Catholicism is growing sick in its historic birthplace of Western Europe, where a shortage of priests is...
"A shortage of priests has some calling for a loosening of the traditional restrictions, but Benedict makes clear it won't happen on his watch.
Pope Benedict XVI believes Catholicism is growing sick in its historic birthplace of Western Europe, where a shortage of priests is...