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...

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...

"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...

Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He served as a columnist for Central Europe Review, PopMatters, Bellaonline, and e...

The Last Family By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" There is no word for it in Russian. Platon Karatayev, the typical "Russian soul" in Tolstoy's "War and Peace", extols, for pa...

The Magla Vocables By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" The Macedonians have a word for it - "Magla", fog. It signifies the twin arts of duplicity and ambiguity. In the mental asylum tha...

Article Title: Kerala: Mythological Originl Author: Dr. P.C. Simon Words:499 url: http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/psimon/book2.htm format: 64 cpl author's e-mail: psimon@alumni.ubc....

The Pettifogger Procurators By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" Four years ago, the most unusual event has gone unnoticed in the international press. A former minister of finance has ac...

The Rip van Winkle Institutions By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" The West - naive, provincial and parochial - firmly believed that the rot was confined to the upper echelons ...

The Russian Devolution - Regions and Center in Putin's Russia By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" A centerpiece of President's Putin overhaul of Russia is the reversion to the K...

By Doug Krieger Eh? I can think of scores of reasons to move to Canada (or opt for the Mexican Riviera) . . . any place but Babylon the Great: The USA. The War in Iraq . . . or better yet: The entire Military-Industrial Complex sucking the life-blo...

Firstly, let me say that I am sure all our thoughts went out to the victims, their families and friends of these bombings, and other incidents where innocent people lose their lives. Secondly, an SEO ezine is not the place to debate the rights and wrongs ...

Although the media are generally accepted as observers and reporters of events, keeping the public informed, they also have the power to shape and influence events, sometimes as they are unfolding. This gives the media a power of significant magnitude. Th...

Americans are getting older but not the way our parents and grandparents did. The face of America is changing and it's going gray. Look around you. We are all getting older. It's not just happening in our neighborhood but around the world; populations...

Today we wish to examine a fallacy, or error in reasoning, which we have found springing up now and again in today's popular discourse about the so-called War On Terror. This one comes straight from the top -- well, not the VERY top -- but from Washington...