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Expanding urban areas, urbanization of rural areas, human pressure on forests are the challenges in ecological conservation, posing threat of extinction of several species of flora and fauna.The threat is already looming large, in that while the rate of extinction increases year after year, conservation efforts are at a meagre minimum.
December 26, 2004, the world was in immense shock of the horrible thing that struck South Asia. Killer waves just came unexpectedly crushing and rumbling everything that was in its way. People ran, climbed, cried, and quite a number of them died. Not many were very lucky to climb tress, hold on to a post, [...]
I have been known to believe in some pretty strange things. Things that no one else gives a second thought. Mostly things, such as Nessie, but this is on the more realistic side of the Fiji Mermaid.
Baby Boomers — Now Shredding the Rules for
Retirement
I am writing this article at the risk of stepping on a lot of toes! Hopefully you do not have a guilty conscience!
You work hard to make a difference for your family. You go to war each day to earn a buck, but you’re caught in a never-ending cycle of conflict. And worse, it’s everywhere you turn. Even at home. Day in and day out, it’s fight, fight, fight. What are you to do? Run away from [...]
These 911 Commission hearings are fascinating. But lurking beneath the surface is something that really bothers me.
“Because of its power and global interests U.S. leaders have committed crimes as a matter of course and structural necessity. A strict application of international law would … have given every U.S. president of the past 50 years Nuremberg treatment.” –Edward Herman
You married for better or worse . . . but not for lunch?
The sun set on your honeymoon many years ago.
Your kids are approaching or have recently arrived at young
adulthood.
You have been living in different domains—at the office—and now you
are transitioning into sharing the same [...]
Every once in a while, someone starts a campaign to lower gasoline prices by urging everyone not to purchase any gas on a certain date. The chosen date is far enough in the future to allow for a massive e-mail and newscast campaign to spread the news far and wide throughout the land and get [...]
(NC)-During my term as Chair of the National Strategy on Community Safety and Crime Prevention, I have a visited cities in the United States, England and Belgium to discuss successful crime reduction strategies with local crime prevention officials. One thing that struck me was how similar their experiences were. In each city there was a [...]
Have you ever noticed how much our world runs on statistics? That’s because statistics never lie. Here are a few very alarming statistics.
Even if you are not a political junkie like I am, you will still probably find yourself glued to your TV set on election night. Obviously, you’ll be waiting to find out whether President George W. Bush will be elected or if Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts will become our 44th President. Will everything [...]
When you think about the girl next door, usually it brings pleasant thoughts. She is a lady we have seen around, exchanged greetings and smiles – walked away feeling good. The part about feeling good has a lot to do with the calm atmosphere and the casual meeting. There was no crowd, no expectations of [...]
Since it is still very early in the year, I will use this space to give you my trusty predictions for 2005. While none of these are guaranteed and any predictions are always fraught with risks, I’m reasonably sure the majority of them will prove to be quite accurate. They are based on my analysis [...]
Human have always shown remarkable skill, innovation and ingenuity when faced by environmental hurdles. Instead of competing with or opposing the environment, they cooperate with it by resorting to ‘ecological engineering’, Ecos, co-evolution and the ecological paradigm. This article briefly discusses these key issues that can reshape this world.
A great war is brewing, and there will be hell to pay if we keep going on the way we are.
Some time ago a long-time friend we’ll call “George,” called me late at night. I could sense his hesitation and braced for the worst. He described for me how the settlement from a job-related injury had enabled him to go to graduate school for retraining. Although he and his wife tried to be frugal, they [...]
Grills, especially gas grills, are an equipment to be used with caution and care, as they may just put you in danger. Most of the times, fires are started by gas tanks of such grills.
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As the holiday shopping season kicks into high gear, these are the brand-name clothing and fashion accessories that women will expect. But with the average cost of these items ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars, how [...]
Why are so many more people frightened of riding in an aeroplane than driving in their car? The risk of being injured in a car is far greater than being injured in an aeroplane. I can offer this theory: it’s because aeroplane crashes are so rare and auto crashes are so commonplace. This may sound [...]
Katharine Graham, chairman of the executive committee of The Washington Post Company and the author of Personal History, a memoir for which she received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, died July 17 at age 84.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s maiden visit to Jammu and Kashmir received a striking welcome from the guns of the fidayeen militants who were holed up in a location hardly 200 meters away from proposed place for PM‘s rally. However the valley is now all set for a major revamp after the PM’s visit with major [...]
The increasing military assistance by US for Pakistan is raising concerns for India and other South Asian countries. Pakistan the joint ally of US in the “war against terror” is reaping benefits in the form of military assistance.
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Gulf War Syndrome: Don’t Be A Guinea Pig!
“Who could imagine the government, all the way up to the Surgeon General of the United States, deliberately allowing a group of its citizens to die from a terrible disease for the sake of an ill-conceived experiment?”
-Commentary on the Multi-Decade Tuskegee Experiment