Abhishek Behl, www.merinews.com In the age when we have severed all our ties with Mother Nature and packed ourselves in the glass and chrome structures, TERI Retreat presents an example of how we can use natural resources to make our life comfortable. IN HIS OBSESSION with glass and chrome structures, man has entirely […]
CD Review – A Perfect Murder
CD Review – A Perfect Murder War Of Aggression Victory A certain audible growth has grasped our home grown Quebec-Core bands’ writing process, not that is entirely original, but indeed A Perfect Murder have come close to putting out … A Perfect Album. Straight –laced metalcore, which is relentless in the brutality dept. […]
“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 […]
Democracy, Turkey’s Double Edged Sword.
By Nicole Dweck While the Bush administration touts its agenda of "democracy building" as the way forward for nations of the world, we’ve seen time and time again, fledgling democratic systems high-jacked by political groups whose agendas seem less than "democratic." Today, many secularists fear that Turkey’s Islamic-rooted AKP party , though publicly endorsing secularism, […]
The Art Of Public Speaking
In a survey of worst fears, public speaking was second only to death. Many years ago, Dr. Ralph C. Smedley recognized the need to overcome this fear. In October 1924, a group of men led by Dr. Smedley met in the basement of the YMCA in Santa Ana, California. Their purpose? To form an […]
World’s Largest Seed Collection Receives a Multimillion Dollar Grant from Gates
A series of multi-million dollar grants have made it possible for few dozen of the world’s major food crops, almost always propagated clonally, to be stored as seed in Norway’s famous Svalbard (also called the “Doomsday Vault” in popular media) facility. Originally opened in 2006, Svalbard is just one of many germplasm repositories of valuable […]