ISLAMABAD, Feb 9 : British detectives have concluded in a report submitted to the government here Friday that a head injury caused by the effect of a bomb blast resulted in the death of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Ms Bhutto’s only apparent injury was a "major trauma to the right side of the […]
Should cell phones be banned in restaurants?
Should cell phones be banned in restaurants? I can really appreciate the concerns for the call to ban cell phones in the restaurants. I get really annoyed in the church service and later in the restaurant when phone rings. The ways some people talk on the cell phone in my part of the world […]
How responsible are adults when things go wrong in the world of children?
A child raised in a farm learns about the land, the seasons, the behaviour of animals and birds in relation to human life. A doctor’s child plays with spoons and a string in place of a stethoscope. “Say aaah …show me your tongue! 221; and tries to give everyone “injections”. Every school-going youngster wants to […]
EDUCATION IN 2010
FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS · Throughout this scenario, the terms network, Internet, internet-accessible, online, etc. are used interchangeably in describing an environment in which people have access to information stored on computers, without regard to time & place. This access might take place through the Internet or an Intranet or a wireless connection device or the telephone. […]
A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF YOUR MIND
What is the self? How does the activity of neurons give rise to the sense of being a conscious human being? Even this most ancient of philosophical problems, I believe, will yield to the methods of empirical science. It now seems increasingly likely that the self is not a holistic property of the entire brain; […]
“Who Are You to Judge Me?” Hillary’s Secret Diary Peers into the Glass House of a Brick Thrower
June 7, 2007 Dear Diary, Bill was wrong. The TV did not distract me from the weekend media cycle, used to trot out the latest Hillary-as-Lady-Macbeth biographies. Yet the stress is gone, and I feel both serene and mildly exhilarated after watching, of all things, a show about New Jersey gangsters. In a few […]