| Mon, 8 Feb 2010 Enough of demographic terrorism: Let's talk
| Picking up on the article of Fr. Gregory Gaston ('Population trends: lessons for RP,' Inquirer, 1/3/10) Rosie Brillantes-Luistro ('Population bomb theory defused,' Inquirer, 1/23/10) warns against measures to reduce population growth. She speaks of what has been calle... | Questioning Crime Data, and Other Data Behind Bloomberg Policy
| Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, an engineering major in college, has never been shy about proclaiming an unerring faith in statistics. | He created 311 as a way to collate data, and improve the lives of New Yorkers. He has whipped out education data to justify extending m... | Orange no more
| Razom nas bahato, nas ne podolati (together we are many, we cannot be defeated).” The leap of faith anthem that hypnotised Kiev’s Independence Square in 2004 will not be heard even if Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko challenges the close result of Sunday’s presidential... | Masters of lust
The pretty teenager knew it could come to this - having to give herself to a man who looked older than her father. But her mind was on how marvellous life would be when she made it big as a model, so she peeled off her panties and awaited the master's touch. | //--> Pat... | Cult of the Living Doll in Tokyo
| TOKYO — In the West, a somewhat condescending verdict on Japanese women has long been that they are too submissive and doll-like. For close to a decade, the Japanese media have exhorted women to fight against this image by toughening up and coming into their own... | Slum-dwellers use RTI to expose state apathy
Slum-dwellers use RTI to expose state apathy | Feb. 8: At a time when even the educated elite merely complain about red-tapism in the bureaucracy, slum-dwellers in the city have demonstrated the use of RTI (Right to information) Act as a weapon to expose the governmentâ... | Rihanna surprises Super Bowl fans with bizarre, bra-baring catsuit
| New York, Feb 6 (ANI): Barbados-born beauty Rihanna debuted an eyebrow-raising getup at a pre-Super Bowl event in Miami. | Wearing a catsuit that was missing one leg, a sleeve, and part of the torso, the stunner grabbed attention on Thursday night, reports The N... | Doherty snorts to the top of nightmare neighbor poll
Britons have voted rock star Pete Doherty the least desirable celebrity neighbor in the land. | //--> Tuesday, February 09, 2010 | Britons have voted rock star Pete Doherty the least desirable celebrity neighbor in the land. | The Babyshambles singer's infamous parties ... | Rewards promised to Mumbai cops are just fake cheques
| Mumbai: Nestled uncomfortably in the Mumbai police’s image of being aggressively protective of its own is the farce of medals and cash awards the force routinely institutes to honour its best. While most are discontinued and forgotten a few years hence, what is ... | Cobbling signboards
| 'What would the Ten Commandments have looked like if Moses had run them through …Congress?' the late President Ronald Reagan once wondered. Wonder no more. Listen instead to Rep. Mark Cojuangco. | 'We're only good at changing the names of streets and schools. These ar... | Police Arrest Armed Duo Behind Sharjah Heists
DUBAI - The emirate's police recently nabbed two 'dangerous criminals', who were allegedly involved in movie-style armed robbery at two money exchange offices in Sharjah, from a Bur Dubai flat. | According to Lt-General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, Commander-in-chief of Dubai P... | An American Intifada?
During the 1960 Christmas season, Americans flocked to the theatres to see Exodus, a 3-1/2 hour epic film featuring handsome freedom fighters and a riveting romance amidst the heroic triumph of Jewish destiny over Arab evil doers. | Set against a Yuletide backdrop of Bi... | Hazards: A Warning on Mixing Herbs and Medicine
| Researchers are warning that popular herbs and supplements, including St. John's wort and even garlic and ginger, do not mix well with common heart drugs and can also be dangerous for patients taking statins, blood thinners and blood pressure medications. | St. John's... | US not yet lost, but Senate doing its best
US not yet lost, but Senate doing its best | We’ve always known that America’s reign as the world’s greatest nation would eventually end. But most of us imagined that our downfall, when it came, would be something grand and tragic. | What we’re getting instead i... | karthika: In the eye of a storm
Karthika, daughter of yesteryear heroine Radha, is under the scanner after Simbu refused to act opposite her in K V Anand’s Ko! Simbu had done a photo shoot with the girl before opting out of the project just a few days prior to the film’s first schedule in China. H... | I view art through the common man's eyes: Sanjeev Sonpimpare
| Mumbai: In 1988 Sanjeev Sonpimparne moved to Mumbai to pursue an art degree at the JJ School of Art. Now, twenty-two years later, one of his paintings will be hung in the domestic airport of Mumbai. The painting portrays two contrasts of the city, the slums and the hi... | |
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