Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai serve as more influential role models for youngsters than any of the famous figures from history, a new study from the University of Leicester suggests. The research in the University of Leicester Department of Media and Communication examines interest in celebrities and gossip about them. It was carried […]
SRK, Big B story better than history
"This explains why celebrities act as role models for broad ranges of behaviour they display – good or bad." Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai serve as more influential role models for youngsters than any of the famous figures from history, a new study from the University of Leicester suggests. The research in the […]
Portrait of a Hanson Fan
“Funny how life gets in the way of your Hanson web site. When I was 20, it was the other way around. This is why, my friends, you should never write dolorous farewell notes or burn your internet bridges. Years will pass. The dust will gather. And you will wake up one morning with a […]
Many Europeans Choose Internet Over TV
Almost six out of 10 West Europeans now regularly access the Internet and, for the first time, young people are more likely to go online for most days of the week than turn on the television, according to a new survey. Still, the web is less and less the turf of the young: the past […]
Academic Researcher: Abu Ghraib Torture Was Ordered By Top Ranking US Officials
An academic at Indiana State University has published a peer reviewed article in an international journal, claiming that the torture in Abu Ghraib has’t been episodic but systemic and intentional. He attributes it to instructions by top officials. US officials from top echelons are instructing ‘take off the gloves’ approaches in prisoner interrogations, says Mark […]
AL-QAEDA : From alienation to annihilation
Why do they do it? What is it that turns young men, some with good life prospects, into suicide bombers? Scott Atran, a US academic who has conducted scores of interviews with families, friends and neighbours of suicide bombers, points to one common factor: publicity. “The difference between terror and other forms of violence . . . is publicity,” […]