In this photo released by World Wildlife Fund-National Geographic, two Thai fishermen show a 293-kilogram (646-pound) giant catfish they caught from the Mekong River in Chiang Khong district of Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand Saturday, June 11, 2005. Thai fishermen have caught this giant catfish believed to be the world’s heaviest living freshwater fish but…
Save as PDFThe Global Call to Action against Poverty marks its first global White Band Day mobilization on Friday 1st July © www.whiteband.org © www.whiteband.org Some of the world’s most famous landmarks will be adorned with huge white bands on 1st July, as part of a curtain-raiser to a week of global action during which campaigners and…
Save as PDFPOLITICS-AFRICA: Bush Exaggerates Increase in U.S. Aid Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Jun 27 (IPS) – U.S. President George W. Bush has been significantly exaggerating the amount of money his administration has provided in aid to sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new study released here Monday. Instead of a tripling of U.S. aid to Africa between 2000…
Save as PDFBy ERIC ASIMOV Published: June 29, 2005 ON a hot summer night, a beer need only be cold and wet to satisfy. But consider if the standard were set a little higher. Imagine a beer that offered more than the internal equivalent of holding a cold, glistening bottle against a flushed and sweaty forehead. What…
Save as PDFRhizome.org: RHIZOME ARTBASE 101 Rhizome ArtBase 101 surveys salient themes in Internet art, a practice that has flourished in the last ten years. The exhibition presents forty selections from Rhizome.org’s online archive of new media art, the ArtBase, which was launched in 1999 and currently holds some 1,500 works by artists from around the world….
Save as PDFFrance to Be Site of World’s First Nuclear Fusion Reactor – New York Times PARIS, June 28 – France won an international competition today to be the site of the world’s first nuclear fusion reactor, an estimated $12 billion project that many scientists see as essential to solving the world’s future energy needs. Save as…
Save as PDFsome of these are too hard to believe and yet…they come out of the president’s mouth.. for example “See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”—Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005 The Complete Bushisms…
Save as PDFThere’s more to jazz than Kenny G and Wynton Marsalis. Jazz Article Center @ All About Jazz Building a Jazz Library Save as PDF
Save as PDFDoctors in Bangladesh say they have removed a long-dead foetus from the abdomen of a teenage boy who was complaining of stomach pains. They said the foetus would have become the boy’s twin had it grown normally in their mother’s womb. They said it was a case of an extremely rare condition where two foetuses…
Save as PDFThis is so fukn cool…. BBC – Music / Features – Echoes of Africa Introduction Dance music, pop, jazz, rock, rap, blues – there aren’t many genres which don’t carry an element of African ‘DNA’ somewhere in their make up. The music we love has its foundation in a blend of African and European sounds….
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