Chiba Day

  By, Uwe Paschen. It is Chiba Day here in Narita, Chiba, Japan.  Tomorrow my wife will not have to go and teach in Narita and I have no field work due to much rain and flooding nor any meetings in Tokyo. In...

In memory of those who gave their lives

War is a Nightmare. Being a soldier is: Seeing death, destruction and your fellow soldiers dying. It is more difficult then one could ever imagine. Every day one wakes up not knowing, if they would still be...

I remember the Perfect Blue Sky on September 11

September 11, 2001 was a routine day until the Kids Program that my youngest son (then not quite 3) was watching went off the air.Shortly thereafter I got a call from a friend in Albany (New York) who had heard the news of the first plane crash.It was news to me and we were...

DAMIRworld Remembers 911 - A Memorial And Tribute - September 11, 2001

DAMIRworld Remembers 911 - A Memorial And Tribute - September 11, 2001I wanted to show my grief, love and support to all those who lost their lives and to those they left behind.  I clearly remember people...

Christina Applegate battling breast cancer

"LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Actress Christina Applegate reportedly is undergoing treatment for breast cancer. ...

Students and Faculty Mourn Murdered UNC Student Body President

Two days after University of North Carolina's student body president Eve Carson was killed in a city street, thousands of students, friends, family and faculty came together to pay their respects to the...

Yoko Ono Birthday Thoughts: John Lennon would have turned 67 today

Yoko Ono shares her thoughts on what would have been John Lennon's 67th Birthday (October 9).  She does it through Birthday Thoughts 2007, a poem written on The Guardian Music Blog.

101 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less

"The pleasures of cooking are sometimes obscured by summer haze and heat, which can cause many of us to turn instead to bad restaurants and worse takeout. But the cook with a little bit of experience has a wealth...

Iran Flips the Bird

"Thumbs-up" has a very different meaning to Persians than it does to Westerners..."This is yesterday’s front page of Kayhan, the state-run newspaper. The text reads “authorities to the journalists who visited...

Living With a Learning Disability

" Six-year-old David's favorite part of the day is story time. He loves it when Mom reads to him, and he has no trouble remembering what he hears. But David has a problem. He cannot read for himself. In fact, any task that requires visual skill frustrates him. Sarah is in her...

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