Morning walks, then blogs, and now a book about biodiversity The Hindu Tara Gandhi, Member, Madras Naturalists' Society, said that while the book provided cause for celebrating the survival of pockets of rich biodiversity in Chennai, it also sounded an alert on the need for coordinated efforts among government, ...
High Tide: From Ending The Sting Prosecutions To Impounding African Autocrats ... Wall Street Journal (blog) (Reuters) The former chief executive of Zimbabwe's soccer association was charged with bribery, corruption and match-fixing. She denied wrongdoing. (Bloomberg) A blog post from Transparency International on Russia's ambition to join the OECD's ...
Book of the Week: This one will make you long for a cloudy day Philadelphia Inquirer (blog) The author is Gavin Pretor-Pinney, a Brit who also is founder of The Cloud Appreciation Society, an organization that says it fights "blue-sky thinking." The website is a treat: "We love clouds, we're not ashamed to say it, and we've had enough of ...
The Supreme Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces (SCAF): Is it us or is it chaos? Jerusalem Post (blog) This week's blog may get me arrested and thrown into jail for criticizing the military. There are other Egyptians bloggers who have been arrested for the same reason such as Michael Nabil and Alaa Abd AlFattah. I can't deny that I was very hesitant and ...
Most disliked athlete? America still hasn't forgiven Michael Vick Yahoo! Sports (blog) Now PETA and the Humane Society was on that booty about the dog-fighting, but you heard nothing of them agenda to destroy pit bulls. Search for it, and once you read it - take the time to laugh at the nice pit bull calendars they created with the ...
