Baguio City – Many parents are worried that their children are not going to finish their study this coming March, the end of school year of 2007-2008. The high incidence of drop-out among students was blamed on various factors that directly affected their school activities. Generally, students from grades school, secondary and tertiary levels are […]
The Business of Dying in America
I really want to write my thoughts about the whole business of dying in America. I refer to it as state sponsorship of domestic terror when county government requires that every person that dies be subjected to an autopsy– a gruesome procedure that results in mutilation and disfigurement of the deceased. It is an appalling […]
Part 5: El Camino de Santiago
The Camino: Part 5 Torres del Rio , Los Arcos and on to Logrono. The road snaked through dry countryside, some parts flat and others rolling, occasionally steeply up and down. On the downhill sections my big toes were starting to get sore. The scene and the trail brought back pictures to my mind, reminding […]
Chavez Goons Raid Venezuelan Jewish Center
Before the December 2nd vote on the referendum changing the constitution to expand Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s powers and cement his plan to transform the South American major oil producer into a socialist utopia, his armed security agents raided a Jewish center in Caracas, Club Hebraica. They were supposedly searching for arms and none were found. The […]
Leprosy Patient appeal for financial help and free treatment.
CHITRAL: Leprosy patients Muhammad Murad of Drosh district Chitral appeal to philanthropists as well as concerned quarter for free treatment and financial support. Murad is the oldest disabled surviving patient. He was one of the 1st Batch of new cases detected in 1966. now his both hands totally dissolved with little signs of fingers and […]
Frankly
I have a principle which, for as long as I can remember, I have applied to my creative writing: I do not refer to any living person by their real name. Oh, I impugn the dead mercilessly and draw any number of coelecanths from the fathoms of my own imagination. But the living … if […]