Heady excitement damped by doubt

Benin's intro:  This is an excerpt from absolutely amazing  special report that the Financial Times has done on the current state of the Nigerian economy.  The report was very fairly balanced and...

Couch Potato and the asthma risk

Research shows that children who watch five hours of TV a day increases their chance of developing asthma. Reason being that by sitting for hours leads to shallow breathing by the kids.   " ...

Ryerson University Facebook Incident Over, For Now

A student who created a facebook study group narrowly dodged expulsion after Ryerson university decided to just give him a failing grade on the homework portion of his class.It is a move that has many critics outraged, saying student Chris Avenir was nothing more than a...

How Smart are Americans?

An article in the NY Post got me to thinking about some other poll results my brother was talking to me about a while back. Unfortunately any conclusions I made from this story from the Post and what my brother...

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