"My fourth visit to China in the last two years coincided with the celebrations on October 1, when China turned 60. A two-and-a-half-hour long, outdoor super-show was put up in Beijing. I watched this, together...
July 30, 2009 The Transformation Has BegunMowing, or should I say, threshing and baling of the tall grass in city parks, as well as garbage and recycling pick up has begun. It will likely take a couple of weeks...
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With the opening of SFU's new Surrey campus in 2002, the transformation of Surrey's "Central City" has begun. The campus is housed in a thirty-thousand square meter portion of the Central City Mall, an...
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Edinburgh, Scotland may be world renown as one of Britain's most beautiful cities (if not the most beautiful), but a new survey has revealed that it is also the loneliest city in the UK."For centuries, princes and...
created by Dave Keating | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 337 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
The average Soweto resident represents a mirror of hope waiting to unfold, transformation in the lives of most people now, since 1994 has become part of the evolution and change we see in the township. Dating back...
created by dumzen | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 289 views | 12 recommendations | 2 comments
Ray Kurzweil, in The Singularity is Near, predicts that by 2020 personal computers will have the same processing power as human brains. For now, Cray, the supercomputer manufacturer, has just come out with a $25,000 supercomputer that runs on 110 volt current and is small...
created by Erik Larson | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 162 views | 8 recommendations | 3 comments
"Of the three primary revolutions underlying the Singularity (G, N, and R), the most profound is R, which refers to the creation of nonbiological intelligence that exceeds that of...
opinion by Erik Larson | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 250 views | 2 recommendations | 4 comments
Terrorism is a global concern, as elite world leaders have often stressed. No doubt it is. But perspectives to understand terrorism are different. This should be noted. India frequently accuses Pakistan of harboring terrorism in an institutionalized manner. Pakistan...
created by mnepali | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 396 views | 16 recommendations | 4 comments
Hewlett-Packard, that stalwart of laptops, is turning directly to its target audience- teenagers- for design cues for its upcoming products: designed by teenagers for teenagers. ""We've used this teen council to...
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"This year's 52 Miss America contestants haven't just been getting judged, they've been getting zinged in "Miss America: Reality Check," a four-part reality series leading up to Saturday's 8 p.m. EST crowning on TLC.
The series, whose final installment airs Friday, has...
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The whole plan to destroy Western civilization is spelled
out by Chavez’s top adviser Heinz Dieterich. If the Western Powers
disregard the very plain strategy that is being hatched by the enemies
of the US,...
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"With more than 20 million inhabitants, São Paulo has recently become one of the worldâs first âhypercitiesâ. In a constant state of transformation, the city has fostered an attitude of improvisation, resourcefulness and cultural cannibalism amongst its...
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A business of millions of pesos that
exploit even 5-6 years old children of both sexes, occurs in
Colombia.
The ogres of sex-tourism will be only
in fairy tales,soon ,in this country.
In May , a...
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The Phoenix Rising Convention in New Orleans, May 17-21, 2007One of the latest events planned by the Harry Potter fans while they wait impatiently for the last (sigh) book in the series to come out this...
This is what a police state looks like."CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- A congress wholly loyal to President Hugo Chavez approved a law today granting him authority to enact sweeping measures by decree.
Meeting at a downtown plaza in a session that resembled a political rally,...
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