| Holding out for a hero (male reporter)
It might pain my mother to hear it, but there's ample evidence to suggest complete strangers regard me as a potential robbing, pillaging thug. Is that a bad thing? I don't know, but it's certainly one conclusion to be drawn after I spent an afternoon feigning vehicle trouble on some of Calgary's busiest thoroughfares -- Crowchild Tr., McKnight Blvd., Barlow Tr. and 16 Ave. -- and not one person pulled over to help. Contrast that with my colleague, Nadia Moharib, who embarked on this same social experiment and proved chivalry is not dead. Five people stopped to help her when they noticed her car pulled over, its hazard lights flashing and hood open. But I could only take being skunked in stride. After all, it had been less than a week since a Good Samaritan stopped on Hwy.
Friend's Name
I simply think this article is complete garbage, symptomatic of the overt politicization of academics that has undermined this school and many others. The jargon about "spaces" and "frameworks" and all the other claptrap is straight out of the seminars in HGS and exemplifies the groupthink that makes all this possible, so I pointed it out. That is not attacking a person. It used to be called vigorous debate, the marketplace of ideas, all that good stuff. But I suppose today the only thing that matters is whether or not someone may be "offended" so we should all just tone it the hell down, huh? For what it's worth, I think you make a lot of good points in your 4:22 post, most of which I agree in full. .
Eight More Years?
He pushed through Congress the NAFTA and the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements that represented the greatest surrender in our history of local, state and national sovereignty to an autocratic, secretive system of transnational governance. This system subordinated workers, consumers and the environment to the supremacy of globalized commerce. That was just for starters. Between 1996 and 2000, he drove legislation through Congress that concentrated more power in the hands of giant agribusiness, large telecommunications companies and the biggest jackpot-opening the doors to gigantic mergers in the financial industry. The latter so-called "financial modernization law" sowed the permissive seeds for taking vast financial risks with other peoples' money (ie. pensioners and investors) that is now shaking the economy to recession.
Truth and Consequences
The academic profession did a great job on the report, but they generally are in a state of denial regarding the depth of the problems. William Sumner Scott, J.D. Judicial Equality Foundation, Inc.wss@jefound.org William Sumner Scott, at 8:30 am EDT on May 17, 2006 .
Academie d'Underrated: Matthijs Vermeulen
For a small country, we have great composers, we have great graphic designers, we have a vibrant literature, etc. etc. The operative slogan, which I feel is the cornerstone of Dutch national sense, is "waar een klein land groot in kan zijn" - referring to things "in which a small country can be great". This formula is a perfect symbol for the typically Dutch form of quasi-modest national pride. At the same time, however, the cosmopolitan openness to what happens in other countries makes the Dutch very unsure of their own cultural tradition. What is Dutch music history when you have all those Germans and Austrians sitting next door pulling off one work of genius after another? What could Dutch literature ever be with Proust just south of you, Shakespeare just west of you, Goethe one step to the east? The two tendencies interestingly reinforce one another.
Stem Cells May Fix Breast Defects
For the first time, doctors have used stem cells from liposuctioned fat to fix breast defects in women who have had cancerous lumps removed.
The approach is still experimental, but holds promise for millions of women left with cratered areas and breasts that look very different from each other after cancer surgery. It also might be a way to augment healthy breasts without using artificial implants.
So far, it has only been tested on about two dozen women in a study in Japan. But doctors in the United States say it has great potential.
"This is a pretty exciting topic right now in plastic surgery," said Dr. Karol Gutowski of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "There are people all over the country working on this."
The Japanese study was reported Saturday at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
Back Room Politics - A Study in Confusion
Now that's a scary thought. I guess there'll be no sleep for me tonight. Seriously, anyone watching recent events in Newfoundland and Labrador knows there has to be something going on behind the scenes, very subtly of course, but something is happening. It's almost like the feeling you get when you're watching a thriller and you know something shocking is about to happen but you can't quite put your finger on it. Premier Williams met with Stephen Harper a few weeks ago and came out of that meeting saying he had offered the PM a number of options that would help offset the $10 or $11 billion dollar shortfall left outstanding by the Federal government's broken promises on resource revenues and unilateral changes to the Atlantic Accord. The thing is, Williams refused to say publicly what those options were except to say the list was a long one.
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