Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect  Dressed in her best yellow sari Mahibha Basu laughs nervously and threads her long, dark hair through her fingers as she sits on a stool awaiting her turn to see the barber. All around her, nimble-fingered professionals with razor-sharp blades are cutting hair [...]

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Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect An ex-Army intelligence officer recently said, “We are under attack. And it’s not just Mexico. It’s all Central and South American countries. It’s India. It’s China. It’s most of the non-European world. And if we do not fight back soon, America will be [...]

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 Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect On the morning of December 18th, I opened up my morning paper to read the following in the Indian Express—“The Taliban has regained the strength to dominate large swaths of the country, and government control is tenuous in at least 20 per cent [...]

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Like most Pinoy families, many of my relatives live or have worked overseas, some in Chicago, and some in the UK, but two of my cousins used to work in the Middle East on and off. My relatives always preferred to work as nurses in Kuwait. When I naively asked why, they answered: In Kuwait [...]

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From the Norway Post: Two Norwegians have undergone training by Al-Qaida in Pakistan to become terrorist contacts in Norway, according to Newsweek, quoting a Taliban source. Together with an Australian and nine from Great Britain, the two Norwegians with Muslim background have reportedly been trained at a camp on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. [...]

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Quasi-News and Commetary by Wordworks2001 True their word, the confederation of militant organizations in the oil producing region of Nigeria that calls itself the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has upped the violence a notch. At approximately 1 PM yesterday, militants bombed the Shell Petroleum Development Company’s residential compound in Port [...]

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In 1950 U.S. produced more than 8 million vehicles. Japan manufactured just 32 thousand. As you can see the difference was huge: 250 to 1. Clearly Toyota was no rival for GM or Ford. In 2005 U.S. produced almost 12 million vehicles. Japan manufactured more than 10 million. The times of the 250 to 1 [...]

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Russia is a huge nation. It is about 75% bigger than U.S. or twice bigger than Brazil. But its population is just 142 million people. On the other hand, U.S. reached 300 million people a few weeks ago and the population of Brazil is approaching to 190 million. This is not all. United States gains [...]

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The economy grows fast. Thousands of jobs have been created. Great !! These articles are read constantly in different newspapers and magazines. But, does it reflect the reality? I won´t deny that creating jobs is great but it is also important the quality of the job. Millions of jobs created the last years in U.S. [...]

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In the book One Thousand and One Nights(Arabian Nights). Scheherazade has to tell stories in order to survive. She tells such interesting and compelling stories that King Schehrayar can’t help but let her live one more night and then another and then another. After a thousand and one nights, he gets attached and forgets his [...]

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    1970 1980 1990 2000 2005 China Exports 2307 18099 62091 249203 761954 China Imports 2279 19941 53345 225094 660003 U.S. Exports 43241 225566 393592 781918 904383 U.S. Imports 42389 256984 516987 1259300 1732348 In 1970 the exports of China were less than 6% of those of U.S. The asian country exported just more [...]

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You’ve reached the age, Christopher, where you doubt Santa Claus exists. Last Christmas you expressed some uncertainty, but decided to keep your options open just in case. But right about now your peers are probably telling you that belief in such things as Santa Claus is ‘childish’ and not the ‘adult’ thing to do. But [...]

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by Craig Dimitri On December 12, House Democrats capped their victories in the 2006 cycle by defeating Rep. Henry Bonilla (R., Texas) in a runoff; former U.S. Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D., Texas) will return to the House after defeating Bonilla on Tuesday, in a huge district that spans part of the border between Texas and Mexico.   Thus, in the [...]

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 — OffStumped For All Things Right of Center, Bringing a Right of Centre Reality Check to Indian Politics, News Media Reporting and Opinion now in Hindi अब आप के लिये हिंदी मे. —      So what is going on down south in Andhra Pradesh. What started with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy on last [...]

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By Jefferson Flanders To borrow, once again, from Jimmy Cannon, nobody asked me, but… I’M SURE THAT SWARTHMORE STUDENTS and their parents feel so much better now that adminstrators at that elite college outside Philadelphia have proclaimed the school a bargain. Swarthmore’s managers argued that in a story in the New York Times: “The half [...]

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Battestella’s Vampire Family Accepted With Mardi Gras by Leigh Wood. She’s only 25, but Kristin Battestella has been writing for 15 years. Known in print and online mostly for her nonfiction, reviews, and articles, Battestella is moving to the forefront of the e-publishing underground. Currently Battestella is nearing the middle of her serial run at [...]

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 Robin Gibb Live Worthy of Bee Gees Memory by Kristin Battestella    I was going to do Here at Last Live, but for once I am going to be somewhat timely with a review and do Robin Gibb With the Neue Philharmonic Frankfurt Orchestra Live!  Say that three times fast!  All us Americans have been [...]

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TNT’s Poor Presentation of The Lord of The Rings Inexcusable By Kristin Battestella Shame shame on Ted Turner and his TNT network. In the past we’ve all cringed at the cable channel’s too frequent and too lengthy commercial breaks, but this weekend’s poor presentation and lack of respect for Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings [...]

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Just last week in The National Interest online, I argued that the U.S. was destabilizing Iraq by pushing democracy. Applying the theory from Ian Bremmer’s The J Curve, I said the occupation should focus on economic development instead. We’ll have a better chance at democratization if we wait awhile. Statistically and theoretically, it’s very unlikely [...]

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Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect Prince Charles is planning a new house for son Prince William in a remote valley on the Welsh border. So, is it a wedding gift? That’s the question everyone seems to be asking. Prince William will soon get an expensive gift from his [...]

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Editor and Publisher seems hardly able to hold back their excitement over the possibility that someone has found proof of the existence of the mysterious “Captain Jamil Hussein” who the Associated Press claimed as a source for the supposed burning of 6 Sunni Iraqis in retaliation for the depredations of that sect on their Shi’ite [...]

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News Item: Documentary plans to challenge Gore The icebergs are melting!  The ocean is rising!  New York will become an aquarium!  Let’s all step back, and take a breath here.  It’s not that long ago that an ice age was predicted. There is a climate shift occurring, no doubt about that.  It’s been another warm, [...]

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Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect Unable to visit Sri Lanka to attend her last rites, Jayapalan wrote this recently. A well-known Sri Lankan Tamil poet living in exile, Jayapalan bears a poet’s sensibility on the conflict in Sri Lanka. He has been observing and writing about it for [...]

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Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect AIDS leaders from the United Kingdom and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) met here today to help the state government chalk out a detailed strategy to fight the deadly disease fast taking Bihar in its grip. They were unanimous in [...]

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That Germans are a little batty when it comes to their dogs is no secret. They even take their Köter (mutts) with them when they go on vacation or out to eat, for crying out loud. And although they often go out of their way to teach these dogs obedience, the owners themselves are quite [...]

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 Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect While in the rest of the world, women outnumber men by three to five per cent, in India there are seven per cent more men than women and the number of females continues to decline, says a new book. Neither education nor affluence [...]

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Pat Conrad (Prince of Tides, the Great Santini) writes about one of his classmates a true hero, and then questions his own choice to oppose the war in Viet Nam But in the 25 years that have passed since South Vietnam fell, I have immersed myself in the study of totalitarianism during the unspeakable century [...]

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Quasi-News and Commentary by Wordworks2001 The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)presidential candidate, Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua, on Sunday surprised many people as he named Bayelsa State governor, Dr. Jonathan Goodluck, as his running mate. He said after consulting party leaders, he arrived at the choice of Governor Goodluck. Goodluck has not been considered a candidate for national [...]

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Quasi News and Commentary by Wordworks2001 Yar’Adua to be PDP Candidate Nigeria’s ruling party on Sunday chose a reclusive Muslim state governor, Umaru Yar’Adua, to be its candidate to succeed Olusegun Obasanjo as president of Africa’s most populous nation in elections next year. Yar’Adua, the 55-year-old governor of Katsina state, beat 11 other contestants for [...]

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