News
'Jack Layton secures his place in NDP – and Canadian – pantheon"
By Rob Winters - Published on Monday, 29 August 2011 08:42
"On Saturday, Canadians said goodbye to their Leader of the Official Opposition and one of the most popular political figures in the country. New Democrats laid to rest the most successful party leader in their history, and a man whose name will likely be repeated in future with the same reverence as that reserved for Tommy Douglas, first head and spiritual heart of the NDP."
"Why did Layton’s final act rivet us so? It followed a classical arc"
By Rob Winters - Published on Monday, 29 August 2011 08:36
"The word catastrophe, derived from Greek, translates roughly as “an overturning.” Classical drama often ends with it, typically with the death of the hero.The path of Jack Layton’s recent life perfectly traces that Aristotelian arc, climbing to the hubristic heights of his party’s performance in the 2011 federal election (winning 103 seats and becoming the official Opposition) to the astonishing climax: his July 25 announcement of a second cancer diagnosis. We all know the tragic denouement."
"India is a major regional and global power: US"
By Rob Winters - Published on Thursday, 25 August 2011 20:56
"Washington: Identifying India as a major regional and global power, the Pentagon said it wants to strengthen and deepen its relationship with New Delhi because India not only brings in great capabilities, but also shared interest.
"When you start looking at which countries you want to cooperate with the most, you look immediately to countries that bring great capabilities and bring shared interests.
That's what we have in India and that's why the (India-US) partnership is so important," Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for South and Southeast Asia Robert Scher said."
Read more: http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/india-is-a-major-regional-and-global-power-us_728173.html
"We have only discovered 14 percent of all species on Earth"
By Rob Winters - Published on Thursday, 25 August 2011 20:50
"Scientists have spent centuries trying to catalog all the different species on Earth, but according to a recent study, less than 15 percent of the 8.7 million species have been discovered. Yes, apparently 86 percent of the planet’s species are still unknown to us.More frightening than the thought of crazy alien-looking creatures going undiscovered at the bottom of our oceans is the thought that many of these mystery-creatures will fade out of existence before we can even document them at the rate species are becoming extinct right now."
"A radical new rabies treatment"
By Rob Winters - Published on Thursday, 25 August 2011 20:40
"On Sept. 12, 2004, 15-year-old Jeanna Giese bent down to pick up a wounded bat in her hometown of Fond du Lac, Wis. When the creature bit her left index finger, she treated the cut like any other (with hydrogen peroxide) and carried on with her life. But a month later, Giese was struck with double vision, slurred speech, and a fever of 102° F. Doctors tested her for several infections but each result came back negative. Finally, her mother recalled the bat bite and doctors filled in the blank: Jeanna had rabies—a viral infection that causes acute encephalitis and is almost always fatal when victims do not receive a vaccine of immunoglobulin immediately after infection."
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