Contrary to what you’ve seen in old horror movies, when you’re hypnotized, you can’t be forced to do anything you don’t want to do. What hypnosis will do is make you more receptive to suggestion. Studies show that it can even ease some physical conditions. As a result, hypnosis has shed its hocus-pocus image and […]
White House Regroups on Guantanamo
This post was co-published [1] with The Washington Post and appeared in that paper on Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. President Barack Obama talks on the phone while White House Counsel Gregory Craig stands by. Craig no longer heads the administration’s initiative to close the prison at Guantanamo, according to two senior administration officials. (Official White […]
Pakistan’s and American War on Terror, Part I
Pakistani Security forces have arrested another important Taliban leader of TTP swat. Sher Muhammad Qassab, who was a hard core Militant of Fazalullah with head money of 10 million rupees (around 120,000 dollars), was arrested in a commando operation in Char Bagh area. He was, by a profession a butcher and was famous for beheading […]
NYC Theatre Artist Draws Inspiration From Teaching Inner-City Children
NYC Theatre Artist Draws Inspiration From Teaching Inner-City Children By Jackie O’Neal Patricia Runcie is a teaching artist with Arts to Grow, a New Jersey based non-profit that provides inner-city children in New York exposure to the visual, literary and performing arts by partnering with local public schools and community-based organizations. As […]
Brazil: Petroleum, elections and poverty matters
On Friday 15th of May, the Brazilian Congress launched an investigation into the giant state-run oil company Petrobras. The initiative was started by government leaders of the opposition PSDB party. They set up what Brazilians call a Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPI is the abbreviation in Portuguese) to scrutinize supposed irregularities in the company. Meanwhile, on […]
Disappearing Behind Them: Phasing Out Failing Small Schools
Audio reporting edited and published by KALW (coming soon). Also published at The San Francisco Bay View. By Jennifer Inez Ward On a crisp spring California afternoon, long after the echo of the last final bell, 40 parents, students and teachers gathered in a too-warm classroom at Paul Robeson School of Visual […]
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