"Descendants of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his team are looking for a final budding explorer to complete their ancestors' journey to the South Pole. Legend has it Sir Ernest recruited his expedition members with an advert promising "small wages", "constant danger" and a...
Is this "art" or is it just tasteless, tacky, and insulting? There's bound to be an uproar over this use of 9/11 as "installation art."Was that uproar the purpose? This might have been just a way of getting attention."Attendees at the Leipzig Games Convention in eastern...
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Corn prices hit a record high today as a result of the flooding in the Midwest. "The worst flooding in the Midwest for 15 years sent fresh shocks to global markets and consumers on Monday as corn prices hit...
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"A report from the new Middle East—and a glimpse of its possible future
by Jeffrey Goldberg, Atlantic Monthly, Jan-Feb 2008Not long ago, in a decrepit prison in Iraqi Kurdistan, a senior interrogator with the Kurdish intelligence service decided, for my entertainment and...
Light pollution has been a hot topic in New Zealand lately with local councils encouraged to do whatever is needed to reduce or minimize this visual intrusion during the dark hours of our day. New Zealand is now...
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"Unlike attention deficit disorder, or ADD, people aren't born with ADT. It's the result, he contends, of the modern workplace, where the constant and relentless chatter coming from our computers, phones and other high-tech devices is diluting our mental powers."
"After Vietnam, the dominoes did not fall. What that tells us about this war.
To me, the relentless mud slide of insurgency and civil war in Iraq is leading to unacceptable strategic disaster for the U.S. There appear to be no viable paths to follow in order to avoid it....