I’m a huge fan of video-sharing sites. They’re fun, hugely addictive and essential for people without cable.
It’s also very convenient when I’m looking for videos from the motherland. I remember way back, when my mom and I would borrow soap-operas from the local Korean super-market, hoping that the old VHS tapes wouldn’t get [...]
Last fall Marion Jones, the famous track and field start, admitted she used steroids.
In a letter to her close friends and family she mentions that she believed her coach was giving her a natural supplement called “flaxseed oil” when in reality she was taking steroids.
This made me think about the use of natural supplements and [...]
Bono joked about being married to Al Gore, then admitted he’s concerned about the marriage of environmentalism and poverty last week.
Bono and Gore spoke together at breakfast panel at the World Economic Forum about the Unified Earth Theory, touting combining combating global warming and eliminating poverty into one strategy to save the future of mankind. [...]
By Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra
Allegation of poll rigging in last month’s presidential election started the spate of violence in Kenya. The clashes between members of Luos and Kikuyus tribes in Kenya’s Rift Valley have claimed lives of close to a thousand people.
Opposition and some independent observers say that elections were rigged to ensure that President Mwai [...]
The Port of Vancouver is the largest port on the west coast of North America in terms of metric tons of total cargo.
Heroin produced in the Golden Triangle (Burma, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, China) and the Golden Crescent (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran) is easily smuggled into our city through the enormous port.
There is simply too much traffic [...]
Mark Malkoff lived my dream.
The New York City comedian moved into some sweet new digs earlier this month.
Lets talk about tennis for a moment.
The Australian Open wrapped up this weekend, inducting two new champions in both men and women’s singles titles. Novak Djokovic, who is ranked number three in the world, and Maria Sharapova, who is ranked number five, were both elated with their wins.
I have to say that there is nothing [...]
It’s treaty-negotiating time in Iraq, and it could mean a change in the way private security is handled there.
The U.S. is looking for special treatment for its independent contractors, and the Iraqi government seems unlikely to grant it.
Yesterday the Pope gave his latest statements, or rather expressed his insecurities, relating to science.
Normally I am annoyed whenever the Pope makes headlines for stating his points of view, but this time the article hooked me (for one thing, it was in the science section).
“In an age when scientific developments attract and seduce with the [...]
By Fram Dinshaw
This place is one of the most lawless on Earth – a land of tribal vendettas, bearded militants with Kalashnikovs, weapons smugglers, and al-Qaeda terrorists who’ve basically been allowed to run riot as they plot attacks across an entire country – and the wider world.
You’d be forgiven for thinking this was somewhere like [...]
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