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News-and-Society
01st November 2005
A Devastated Metropolis
By Ozer Khalid
On October the 29th three ghoulish bomb blasts rocked the spine of Delhi leaving 61 dead in their ghastly wake. Traffic-free are Delhi's roads in an aberrantly unambiguous metropolis. Gaudy neon lights are dimm...
26th October 2005
One of the most widely respected and important American publications of the last century is Forbes Magazine. Forbes Magazine was founded in 1917 by Scottish immigrant B.C. Forbes (who was, at the time, the leading columnist for the Hearst newspaper c...
23rd October 2005
I've been in law enforcement for 17 years and have a great
deal of experience working in the street and dealing with
the common problems and crimes of the average person.
This article addresses the common crimes that are
occuring to people when re...
22nd October 2005
The study of vocalics or paralanguage deals with the non-verbal qualities of speech. These qualities include pitch, amplitude, rate, and voice quality. Linguists argue that the way in which a person says something often means more than the actual words ...
08th October 2005
One of the benefits of a lifetime of afterlife communication is that I know a lot about ghosts … what they are and what they're not. For instance, they're not "caught between worlds." And they don't need us to help them "move on." They're exactly where t...
06th October 2005
Milosevic and his cronies stand accused of plundering Serbia's
wealth - both pecuniary and natural. Yet, the media tends to confuse
three modes of action with two diametrically opposed goals. There
was state sanctioned capital flight. Gold and forei...
06th October 2005
What do the major generals who are leading the war efforts in Iraq have in common with executives and entrepreneurs who are conducting business back home? When it comes to leadership, the answer is probably a lot more than you think.
In a recent stud...
04th October 2005
Three Lessons Katrina Should Have Taught Us
By Jared N. Sorensen
I have listened with a certain degree of sad amusement to all the political and media hoopla about "what went wrong" with the Hurricane Katrina disaster response. Fingers are pointed in e...
04th October 2005
I live in the outskirts of an imploding empire. Fuzzy human figures,
bloodied in black and white, lynch senior politicians in full view
of cameras. The parliament building is smoking. When empires die -
and Yugoslavia has always been a Serbian empir...
03rd October 2005
It is presently estimated that 700 tonnes of carbon dioxide are pumped into the earth's atmosphere every second of the day. Carbon dioxide is the chief contributor to the greenhouse gases. It is these greenhouse gases which cause global warming.
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03rd October 2005
Winning the European CAP (Common Agricultural Policy)
By Sam Vaknin
Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"
According to a June 2005 OECD report, and contrary to popular, media- fostered impressions, farm subsidies are being phased o...
03rd October 2005
In the 12th Century the Shogunate was formed. The head of this regime was the Shogun, the supreme ruler. Under him where his regional 'daimyo' or 'dukes'. Under each 'daimyo' served the Japanese samurai. When a samurai stepped out of line, became too unru...
03rd October 2005
We all remember the movie Jaws, and whenever there's a
shark scare, sales managers at waterfront resorts all over
the world find themselves drowning in questions from
potential guests. And not just questions but cancellations,
often large numbe...
03rd October 2005
Poverty in America: Over 35 million living below the poverty line Copyright 2005 Ofer Shoshani
The problem of poverty in America comes as a surprise. How
can a wealthy nation experience poverty? Though the rate of poverty is lower in a developed natio...
01st October 2005
"What to Do When Someone Offends You,"
by Susan Dunn, MA, The EQ Coach
Let's say you're sitting around the swimming pool and
someone tells a joke about a group everyone knows you belong to. Or let's say someone doesn't know something about (like tha...
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