Ziggy is lucky. He may walk through the cartoon pages with a black cloud hanging over his head, but he can escape from the cloud with the simple stroke of a cartoonist’s pen. Others aren’t as fortunate. The great Russian writer Dostoevski struggled with the cloud. So did Abraham Lincoln. Even astronaut Buzz Aldrin descended […]
China: Storm in the way home
By Bob Chen It’s just a 20-hour travel, but I have lost contact with my 3 kids for 3 days! The train must have been stranded in somewhere unknown, in the wild far from any station. The only cell-phone text message they sent yesterday told that they were out of money, the train short of […]
Can you find this hijacker? Unsolved mystery of a hijacking
When you hear a case of hijacking what comes into your mind is the political or the religious cause for which a person or group of persons indulge in such an act, but, behold and read this hijacking by a singleman just not for ransom but the way he had executed the act and still […]
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a cooperative military prison and detention camp under the leadership of Joint Task Force Guantanamo since 2002. The prison, established at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, holds people accused by the United States government of being terrorist operatives, as well as those no longer considered suspects who are being held pending […]
Do We Understand Global Warming Enough to Act?
Humanity is younger than global warming and the conditions that cause and have caused global warming. As the world heats, the authorities among our relatively young species look for industries to blame and nations to blame – and we come up with formulas and needs for more formulas, all of which are based on […]
Aishwarya Rai: The ninth most beautiful lady in the world
She may have been crowned Miss World almost ten years ago, but Aishwarya Rai still has that beauty, charm and grace to be voted as the ninth most beautiful lady in the world. Ash is ninth in the poll of the 100 Most Beautiful Women of Today, which appears in the July issue of Harpers […]