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This is a unique personality test. There are only 4 questions but the results are very interesting. I was kind of shocked by what some of my answers meant. Be honest and honor what pops into your mind when the questions present themselves. Just click on the following...

China is ready for the English-speaking crowd: http://www.engrish.com/detail.php?im...ate=2008-05-08 Example...

Blackwater by Jeremy Scahill (2007) Review on back: "Blackwater is the utterly gripping and explosive story of how the Bush administration has spent hundreds of millions of public dollars building a parallel corporate army, an army so loyal to far right causes it constitutes nothing...

There Were Orders to Follow You can often tell if someone understands how wrong their actions are by the lengths to which they go to rationalize them. It took 81 pages of twisted legal reasoning to justify President Bush’s decision to ignore federal law and international treaties and authorize...

Bullying by Alexandra Galvis As I make my way to school each day To see the girls who break my soul I wish I could tell the bullies in my school Can you be kind and not so cruel? And it starts and lasts all day I cannot stand it, go away Just close your eyes and you will see All...

Malaysia plans women travel curbs Women's groups in Malaysia have reacted angrily to proposed government restrictions on women traveling abroad on their own. State media say the plan would require women to obtain written consent from their families or employers. The Malaysian foreign...

I had the pleasure of reading someone's dissertation on politics. The expression "democratic dictatorship" surfaced, and I wondered if I was seeing right! That evoked such a paradoxical image in my mind.that I have to ask you: What is a democratic dictatorship? I'm going to bed now, but I hope...

Children Hurt and Hospital Is Hit in Baghdad Clashes BAGHDAD — The ugly daily fight for ground in the poor Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City unfolded Saturday at a small mosque next door to a hospital, damaging the hospital and many of its ambulances, and near a group of children who were...

Canadian Olympic gear made in China, MPs cry foul Federal Opposition members are questioning why the Canadian Olympic team's uniforms and gear are being made mostly in China -- especially during a time when Canada's textile industry is struggling. The teams' official supplier, the Hudson's...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/wo...hp&oref=slogin sorry, the thread ran ahead of me!!! Anyway, tooo late to fix now. Just read the link, please and comment.

Hitler plot survivor dies aged 90 The last known survivor of a group of German army officers who tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944 has died aged 90, his family says. Philipp von Boeselager provided the explosives used to pack a briefcase planted under a table in the Nazi leader's...

US rebuke over Palestinian funds Ms Rice was careful not to pinpoint individual Arab...

Freed Guantanamo prisoner is home A cameraman from the al-Jazeera television station, freed from US detention in Guantanamo Bay, has arrived home in Sudan. Sami al-Hajj had been in US custody for more than six years. He was detained in Afghanistan in 2001. He arrived in the Sudanese...

Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7377002.stm

Bush offers $770m for food crisis Mr Bush said more still needed to be done to fight...

US storm over book on Israel lobby The power of America's "Jewish lobby" is said to be legendary. Commentators the world over refer to it, as though it were a well-established fact that US Jews wield far more influence than their numbers (2% of the population) would suggest. ..... Two US...

Air raid kills Somali militants The...

As Euro Nears 10, Cracks Emerge in Fiscal Union FRANKFURT — The euro turns 10 next January, a milestone that will be marked with celebratory speeches, inch-thick scholarly papers and a commemorative 2-euro coin, designed by a Greek sculptor. It was chosen from five candidates in an online poll...

A nun, badly needing to use the restroom, walked into a local Hooters. The place was hopping with music and loud conversation and every once in a while 'the lights would turn off.' Each time the lights would go out, the place would erupt into cheers...

'Provocative' Clinton angers Iran Tehran has complained to the UN about remarks made last week by Hillary Clinton on the circumstances under which the US might attack Iran. The Democratic presidential hopeful said last week the US could "totally obliterate" Iran if it attacked Israel...