<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: Georgia"><font size="3">Today morning which is the last Monday of the Sravana Month, I visited the Taraknath temple at Tarakeswar and there was no inch of space to have the darshan of Lord Shiva. Thousands of people cladded with saffron colour dresses visited the temple after taking […]
Live Earth – Saving the planet?
<p>Live Earth (LE) came and went on all seven continents July 7, so now that it’s all over, did it do what it was supposed to?<br /> <br /> The point, the message and the steps to be taken<br /> <br /> Organisers Al Gore and Kevin Wall said the mission of the event was […]
The Babe Ruth Effect
<p>On Thursday, the Dow closed down 390 points, its second worst fall in 2007. The last such massive plunge this year came in February when bluechips fell a whopping 416 points.</p> <p>NASDAQ closed 56 points lower while the S and P 500 fell 44 points.</p> <p>Crude was lower by about half a dollar, while gold finished […]
A Response to MLK’s Speech Today
<p><dt class="post-head"> <div class="image-wrapper"> </div> <div class="content-wrapper"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman" color="#8000ff" size="3"> <p> </p> <p>Not so long ago Martin Luther King made a speech that changed America for the better and put us on a promising road for a future filled with freedoms afforded to all Americans.</p> <p>As we headed for that quest for freedom we […]
Marijuana can cause Schizophrenia
Just look for a cool group of teenagers in a flashy consort, busy smoking packets of cigarettes they will divulge there experiments with Marijuana. But you phrase it a drug, they will be all set to come to its resistance, calling it ‘just the done thing’. Hash, marijuana, grass, weed …. They all are different […]
America Fanged: The Vampire In Contemporary American Society
AMERICA FANGED: THE VAMPIRE IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SOCIETY By Richard A. Cooper Americans were shocked to learn there were vampires walking in daylight amongst them. We had thought vampires to be fictional monsters. Then they were described by academics, politicians and journalists as tormented souls with problems of loneliness and eternal boredom. The […]