| Sat 28 Jan 2012 |
Clever coyotes are colonizing North America
The Examiner | Your new neighbors are clever and adaptive with excellent hunting and foraging skills and they are colonizing North America. | Coyotes (Canis latrans) are members of the dog family (canidae) and once lived mainly on the plains and deserts. When wol... |
78% urban youths take supplements: Survey
The Times Of India SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet | BANGALORE: About 78% of adolescents in urban areas of India consume at least one dietary supplement such as pills, energy drinks, steroids and high-protein powders, says a survey by industry body Assocham. | "The statisti... |
My Secret Life: Jim Hormel, 79, gay rights activist
The Independent | The household I grew up in... was in Austin, Minnesota. It had 26 bedrooms. The family company, a meat processing firm, was the biggest employer in town. At the beginning of the Second World War, it was asked to make supplies for the armed forces, ... |
Weicker: God's assistant managers
Austin American Statesman | God's assistant managers gingerly juggle self-assurance and blessed assurance. I took up my managerial duties at Bible school many years ago after my sister and I, wearing matching yellow organdy pinafores, marched down the center church aisle to t... |
Showbusiness's last secret: actors who daren't leave the closet
The Independent | The idea was proposed after troubling results emerged from a survey the union commissioned this week. When asked whether it was "safe to be out about your sexuality in the entertainment industry" a quarter said they hid their sexuality in... |
[Sundance Review] The First Time
IMDb | Movies about teenage strife are incredibly hard to get right. Blame it on John Hughes. Blame it on the suburbs. Blame it on the Sundance Film Festival. Plainly put, if you are not an upper middle class white teenager, it's very hard to sympathize w... |
Mediating Occupy: Voice to the Voiceless
The Examiner | Mediation/Negotiation in its best form found its glory every day at 7pm in Occupy (Portland, Oregon) as the voiceless (99%) got together, mediated, negotiated, their next move, their next plan as a unit. The unwashed were awesome! To th... |
Women's council chief quits over cuts
Irish Times | MARY MINIHAN | CHIEF EXECUTIVE of the National Women's Council of Ireland Susan McKay has resigned in protest at cuts to the organisation's budget and accused the Government of showing "scant regards for women's rights". | Ms McKay has been a trenc... |
Enemies of the States
Irish Times 12A RELIGIOUS AWAKENING? Esposito condemns the stereotypes that led us to ask: Is there something about Islam that accounts for the kind of regimes they have? PHOTOGRAPH: REUTERSA RELIGIOUS AWAKENING? Esposito (pictured) condemns the stereotypes that... |
Olympic security tested at Hampden Park football game
BBC News Security for the 2012 Olympics will be tested at a Scottish football match at Hampden Park stadium this weekend. | Some spectators arriving for the Scottish Communities League Cup semi-final will be searched in a practice run for London 2012 football... |
ACT women for UN summit
Canberra Times The sisterhood is thriving in Canberra and ready to take the fight for women's rights global. | United Nations Women Australia - formerly UNIFEM - has just chosen all three national delegates to next month's UN Commission on the Status of Women in Ne... |
Aboriginal teens score high in test for happiness
Canberra Times Indigenous teenagers are just as happy as non-indigenous adults, a recent study shows. | The RMIT study of 504 Aborigines aged 12 to 19 found their level of subjective wellbeing - the scientific term for happiness - was comparable to that of non-indi... |
5 Beauty Resolutions Every Woman Should Make in 2012
The Examiner | | Happy New Year Lovelies!!! :) The holidays are over, we've eaten lots of yummies, spent time with our loved ones and even had some time off of work. BIG FUN! Now that the new year is here, we're all refreshed and eage... |
Roman Polanski's Carnage is a joyously unpleasant film
The Guardian | In the hands of Roman Polanksi, the one-room chamber cinema of Carnage lives up to its name, says John Patterson. Spoiler alert! It all ends messily | "Mmm … Francis Bacon?" says Kate Winslet to Jodie Foster, leafing through a coffee-table book d... |
This week's new theatre and dance
The Guardian Nora. Photograph: Nicola Young Nora, Coventry | Ingmar Bergman's 1981 psychological drama, itself an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 1879 masterpiece A Doll's House is revived here by director Patricia Benecke. Penny Layden is cast as the banker's wife ... |
Halls of Fame for the Obliviously Obscure
Wall Street Journal | Recently I read that 43 people had just been inducted into the Westchester County Senior Hall of Fame. This is not the Westchester County Business Hall of Fame we are talking about here, nor the Westchester County Sports Hall of Fame, nor the Westc... |
Does 'E Pluribus Unum' Still Apply to Our Country?
Wall Street Journal | Author Charles Murray asserts that we need to be very worried about the rise of secularism in the U.S. because much of American philanthropy and volunteerism is church-related ("The New American Divide," Review, Jan. 21). While a lot of those good ... |
It’s just in your jeans
The Times Of India SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweetIt's just in your jeans (Thinkstock photos/Getty Images) We tell you how to fix denims that bag at your waist | Jeans that do not fit well are an eyesore. Everyone struggles to find that elusive perfect pair of jeans. This t... |
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