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When George Orwell wrote “1984†he included a vision of the future in which people would converse in a language called. Orwell described Newspeak as “the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year”. Orwell’s idea with Newspeak was to have a world where all shades of meaning were removed from language, […]
Noah and Eden appear to be the first to arrive for this so called party. They are surprised that Phyllis and Michael actually fell for their story about the bowlathon. Noah says he will have to make sure to keep up with the time so he can call Phyllis in time to come pick them […]
A grandfather from the UK who owns a bookshop has been awarded an unspecified amount of compensation after he was found to have contracted asbestos related cancer. It is claimed that he was exposed to asbestos from overalls that he had to work with in a previous line of work. Derrick Broadhurst, aged eighty two, […]
Most of us would be outraged, and justifiably so, if a street thug held us at gunpoint, took our wallet and credit cards and then drove off in our car. The outrage would intensify if the authorities, when notified, did nothing. This is basically what has happened, only on a far greater scale, when the […]
 The recent incident where the NDTV Managing Editor, Ms Barkha Dutt has reportedly taken offence to a comment made in a blog forcing the blogger to tender an apology reflects a sad state of affairs where one journalist is trying to curb another. The issue related to the TV coverage of the Mumbai blasts which […]
There is a breaking story about small amounts of Mercury being found in high fructose corn syrup, which is used as a sweetener in a lot of junk food. The frustrating part of the story is that there has been some “ain’t it awful” type articles, but few that actually give us information about what […]
After having bagged a Golden Globe for “Best Original Soundtrack†in “Slumdog Millionaire,†Indian Music composer A.R. Rahman, is being considered a highly probable candidate for receiving the world’s most prestigious entertainment award, an Oscar. Well, there’s something more that some not-so-happy fellow countrymen think the humble musician should get and they have expressed it […]
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