QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador’s Tungurahua volcano is
emitting its loudest and most frequent explosions since it rumbled back
to life nearly seven years ago after eight decades of inactivity, scientists
said.
[...]
CAIRO, May 9 – With the tone of a teacher and the certainty
of a believer, the president of Iran wrote to President Bush that Western
democracy had failed and that the invasion of Iraq, American treatment
[...]
ACCRA, Ghana — More than a quarter of children under
the age of 5 in the developing world are underweight due to hunger, poor
diet, or disease, according to the first UN study in 15 years to examine
[...]
The inability of the elected individuals in Iraq to
form a government lies in the fact that they are not trying to form
effective institutions that can actually govern. Rather, they are trying
to [...]
The
Dowbrigade remains deeply embittered and betrayed by the premature death
of his fourth-generation iPod at the tender age
of 14 months, two months after the expiration of its warranty, converting
[...]
Back
when the Dowbrigade was a rambunctious young refugee from Ivy academics
we served an extended apprenticeship
with a middle aged San Pedro shaman in a tiny seafront town in the middle
[...]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Mortimo Planno, a philosopher
regarded as a key figure in the development of the Rastafarian religion,
has died. He was 85.
from MSNBC
Mortimo
Planno was born in Kingston on September [...]
WASHINGTON — The number of illegal immigrants in the United States
has grown to as many as 12 million, and they now account for about one
in every 20 workers, according to an estimate by an offshoot of the Pew
[...]
WASHINGTON,
Feb. 3 The Muslim world erupted in anger on Friday over caricatures of
the Prophet Muhammad published in Europe while the Bush
administration offered the protesters support, saying of the
[...]
A recent visitor to the Dowbrigade household remarked
on a carved wooden light-pull which spells out the name "Jesus" in the
form of a fish. Perhaps, being aware at least of our traditionally Jewish
[...]
The
similarities between Iraq and Vietnam are moving from disquieting to
disturbing to desperately dire. Then as now, a gullible and
gung-ho public was duped into a foreign war by a corrupt administration
[...]
Over the years, as we have watched the
Soviet Union disintegrate, Yugoslavia implode, thousands die from the
persistent struggle for Tamil independence and dozens of other low-grade
but nevertheless brutal and deadly civil wars [...]