| Page: 12345678910... |
141) How to Avoid Tainted Foods
Author:
Steve Kettle
Category:
News and Society
Learning how to avoid tainted foods these days may seem to be a never ending lesson in food safety. This month it is salmonella in tomatoes. A few months back it was E.coli from spinach. What will be the next scare to come from the Food and Drug Administration? How can we protect ourselves from becoming a victim to the latest outbreak? Or, can we?The toll from salmonella-tainted tomatoes is over 220 as of this writing. The Food and Drug Administration, while saying it is close to iden...
|
142) Yet Another Salmonella Scare
Author:
Steve Kettle
Category:
News and Society
Here we go again, with yet another salmonella scare. There are over twenty three states with salmonella tainted tomatoes being reported as of June 13, 2008. The tainted tomatoes were first reported on June 1 and have been causing severe flu-like symptoms for many tomato lovers.There have been at least twenty five cases severe enough to cause hospitalization. The salmonella found is said to be a relatively rare strain known as Saintpaul. The source, however, remains a mystery.Me...
|
143) How to Vent Your Frustrations at Telemarketers
Author:
Braden Harris
Category:
News and Society
Tried of telemarketers always calling and putting you in a bad mood? If so, there are ways you can make these calls stop. There is no reason why you should allow a phone solicitor to obtain the upper hand and make you feel tense and aggravated in your own home, when you should be relaxing. You should not have to worry about who may be on the other line when the phone rings, nor should you have to screen calls to avoid telemarketing calls.What can you do to vent your frustrations at te...
|
144) To Tim Russert on Passing
Author:
John T Jones, Ph.D.
Category:
News and Society
It's 3:00 a.m. but I can't sleep. My wife can't either. She is out in the kitchen.I ate too much at a Fathers and Sons outing last night, so I was thinking instead of sleeping. I decided that I had something I had to do-and this is it.My wife and I don't watch television between The Price is Right (which my wife and I call, Come On Down) which ends at 10.00 a.m. and Jeopardy, which in our part of Idaho comes on at 5:00 p.m. But I did turn the television on...
|
145) A Man For All Seasons, Political Or Otherwise
Author:
M Solomon
Category:
News and Society
Broadway is dark on Monday nights. This Sunday, Meet the Press may be dark for what, I believe, may be the first time in a long time.I was at home in my office preparing for my next radio show when from my wife's office, I heard her yell, "Oh my God, Tim Russert died."Not believing that I heard her correctly, I ran to her office where Charlie Gibson of ABC News had just interrupted the TV show she was watching. It was at that moment we heard the unforgiving and remorseful news...
|
146) Passport to Paternity: Man Receives DNA Test, Long-lost Daughter For Father's Day
Author:
Emily Vance
Category:
News and Society
A Mountain View, Calif., man will finally be able to celebrate this Father's Day after a 15-year-long battle to find and secure U.S. citizenship for his long-lost daughter from the Philippines.Michael Skipwith knew he had fathered a daughter while stationed at Subic Naval Base in the Philippines in 1992; his child was due to be born in November that year, but in October, Skipwith was transferred elsewhere and never heard from the mother of his child again. He spent ten years searching...
|
147) Blue Doves and a War Zone
Author:
Benjamin Bannister
Category:
News and Society
It's hot and I'm walking in a war zone. There is tension here in the cool sycamore shade, in the hot hissing blacktop, wafting in and out of the contrasting temperatures. On a lawn to my right, slightly elevated and beneath a large picture window is a sign that states, "War is Not the Answer". The words are shouted in baby blue, the silhouette of a dove in flight floats in a corner on the white background. My contrarian mind wonders what is the question and why be so obtuse. When one has som...
|
148) Ending Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking Around the World Forever
Author:
Jefferson Mesidor
Category:
News and Society
Enslaving another human being is one of the greatest crimes against humanity. Simply because it robs the person of their sense of self, the ability to develop their unlimited potential, and their individual freedom. Slavery was one of the most horrific events in human history and in the year 2008 this atrocity to humanity continues.According to the U.S. State Department in the Person Report 2003, "Millions of people around the world still suffer in silence in slave-like situations of...
|
149) Potato Growers - How to Increase Your Yield Per Hectare
Author:
John Foster
Category:
News and Society
The world is on the brink of a major food shortage. Farm lands have been converted to residential areas resulting in a decrease of available farming space, and yet at the same time due to the increase of population, the demand for food increases at a steady rate.Potatoes have become the number three crop in the world, providing an excellent form of nutrition. Surprisingly, the worlds number one producer of potato is China, a place where the value of potato as a vegetable is only recen...
|
150) Pope's permission for the marriage of catholic priests! Has the time arrived?
Author:
V. Gerard Majilla
Category:
News and Society
Recently the Worldwide Catholics have been shocked by few informations, which the Pope, leader of Worldwide Catholics have uttered in U.S. At the same time, it has plunged the Catholic Christian religion into immeasurable depth in the world arena.
The 13000 little boys and girls whom were affected by the immoral behaviour of 5000 U.S. Catholic priests have been given a huge amount of $2 billion, in the past 50 years. This is only example and this news has brought agony in the minds of worldw...
|
151) September 11 As Seen By An American From Warsaw, Poland
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
News and Society
I am sure I do not need to acquaint anyone with the facts that transpired on that day as I am convinced that everybody who is past a certain age and has the gift of literacy has had more then enough time to become acquainted with them. Therefore my intensions in writing this article are first to present my fellow Americans and those around the world with my personal view of how I saw the events. Second to tell how someone who has read what I would call an enormous amount of history books would...
|
152) Voting in the US Primaries
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
News and Society
An article about voting and what I perceive of as being the fundamental reason why we should vote for any given candidate
Once again the time has come for Americans to go to the polls in an event which takes place every four years known as the "Primaries". What are the primaries many non Americans may ask and what useful purpose if any do they serve? Well this is one of the issues discussed in this articles along with why I believe we should vote for a certain candidate.
In the United Sta...
|
153) The Nobel Prize
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
News and Society
Once again the time of year is upon us when a committee of people decides whom will be awarded the Nobel prize in the five different categories which are literature, chemistry, medicine, physics and peace. These awards as most of us know are given out in Scandinavia as it was their where a man whose name was Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-96) made a fortune from his inventions which included dynamite (1867), gelignite (1876), and ballistite (1889), this being the precursor of cordite gunpowder. Of...
|
154) Voting in the US Primaries
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
News and Society
Once again the time has come for Americans to go to the polls in an event which takes place every four years known as the "Primaries". What are the primaries many non Americans may ask and what useful purpose if any do they serve? Well this is one of the issues discussed in this articles along with why I believe we should vote for a certain candidate.
In the United States for the most part there are two prevailing political parties one of them being the Republican party (which I mention firs...
|
155) Should Man Live According To The Bible?
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
News and Society
There is a book called the Bible which we have all heard of as the one that is the word of God straight from him concerning all from the world's creation to our own while not excluding how he believes we should behave toward not only him but each other. This book I speak of is of equal importance at least as far as the "Old Testament" is concerned to both the members of the Hebrew faith as it is to the members of the Judeo-Christian faith, the "New Testament" being the place where these two rel...
|
156) In Memory of Monica Santa Maria
Author:
Gianni Truvianni
Category:
News and Society
I remember being in Peru in 1991 on what turned out to be a one and a half year stay in South America that saw me visit countries such as Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Ecuador but it was during my stay in Lima that I discovered the television program "Nube Luz". I don't recall the exact day but it was on a Saturday morning in the month of September that I turned on the television to what appeared to be a television show for toddlers called "Nube Luz".
As for the show itself it had nothing t...
|
157) Why is There So Much Hatred For Each Other in Africa?
Author:
John Kibuuka
Category:
News and Society
At the beginning of this year, we were all woken up with pictures and stories of violent clashes, murders and horrors happening in Kenya after the disputed presidential elections between President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga. The focus of the whole world was on Kenya, a very stable democracy until after the December 27th 2007 elections when the situation deteriorated into one of tribal violence. Deaths of over 1000 people and 25,000 internally displaced persons crowned it...
|
158) Winning Your Way to a Richer Future
Author:
Paul McIndoe
Category:
News and Society
Becoming a millionaire is a dream for a great many people. Having no more money worries is a great thing in itself, but being able to afford the finer things in life as well would really be incredible. Just imagine not having to get up for work in the mornings or endure that awful commute! But, while winning a huge sum of money may not guarantee happiness, it certainly brings you a wealth of choice. What would you spend the money on if fortune came knocking at your door one day?...
|
159) Are You Being Watched?
Author:
Lenith Hinaloc
Category:
News and Society
WHEN Elizabeth arrives at work each day, a camera tracks her movements. As she enters the building, one camera zooms in on her face. During the day numerous other cameras keep her under constant surveillance. This level of scrutiny is understandable because she works for a company that handles millions of dollars in cash each day.Elizabeth knows she will be closely watched at work; it was clearly explained to her when she took the job. For millions of other people, however, the amount...
|
160) You Said What? God Bless You, President Bush!
Author:
John T Jones, Ph.D.
Category:
News and Society
You Said What?God Bless You, President Bush!This is what President Bush said to an Italian journalist:I thought it was a really good statement, powerful moment when a major political party nominates an African-American man to be their standard bearer. And it's good for our democracy that that happened. And we also had a major contender being a woman. Obviously Hillary Clinton was a major contender. So I think it's a good sign for American democracy.Presiden...
|
| Page: 12345678910... |