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Published on Thursday, 24 July 2008 19:00 | 
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It’s the stuff of heroic legend. A rich man goes walking in the Himalayas seeking answers to Life’s big questions. On a remote mountain path he meets a wise man and is enlightened to his true calling.
In this instance (which more or less followed the script) the rich man is an American executive, John Wood, and the wise man the headmaster of a Nepalese school. Ten years have passed since that fateful meeting. Now Wood says, 'Even if money can’t buy happiness - lack of money can.'
Vida Adamoli investigates
Published on Sunday, 10 August 2008 19:00 | |
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This is a car advertisement from the UK. When they finished filming the ad, the film editor noticed something moving along the side of the car, like a ghostly white mist. They found out that a person had been killed a year earlier in that exact same spot...
The ad was never put on TV because of the unexplained ghostly phenomenon. Watch the front end of the car as it clears the trees in the middle of the screen and you'll see the white mist crossing in front of the car, then following it along the road. Is it a ghost, or is it simply mist? You decide.
WARNING: SERIOUSLY SCARY - DO NOT VIEW IF YOU HAVE A NERVOUS DISPOSITION!
And now for the winners of the Bulwer-Lytton contest. 'What's that?' you say. Go to Funny Stuff and find out!
Published on Saturday, 09 August 2008 19:00 | | |
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In case you missed the rip-roaring speech of the world’s most charismatic environmentalist at Live Earth, here's Bobby Kennedy again!
Published on Friday, 01 August 2008 04:35 | | |
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Randy Pausch, featured in This Way Up
a few months ago, died on 25 July 2008, aged 48.
A computer science professor, he achieved accidental fame with his 'last lecture', delivered to colleagues and students after being diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. A video of this remarkable, optimistic performance - originally shot for his three young children - ended up posted on the internet. It inspired millions to appreciate the briefness and preciousness of life.
Published on Monday, 04 August 2008 19:00 | | |
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PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA
scientists have concluded that at least one of the large lakes observed
on Saturn's moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, and have
positively identified the presence of ethane. This makes Titan the only
body in our solar system beyond Earth known to have liquid on its
surface. Writes
Carolina Martinez more
Published on Thursday, 07 August 2008 19:00 | | |
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Simon Wiesenthal, a survivor of the Nazi death
camps, dedicated his life to documenting the crimes of the Holocaust and to
hunting down the perpetrators still at large. 'When history looks
back,' Wiesenthal explained, 'I want people to know the Nazis weren’t
able to kill millions of people and get away with it.'
Published on Tuesday, 05 August 2008 19:00 | | |
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'Anybody who was the least bit surprised by 9/11 was ignorant, naive or both.' A hard-hitting critique of US empire building by Johan Galtung
Picture: US military map of the world
1. Definitions and Hypotheses: An Overview
Definition: An empire is a transborder Center-Periphery system, in macro-space and in macro-time, with a culture legitimizing a structure of unequal exchange between center and periphery: economically, between exploiters and exploited, as inequity; militarily, between killers and victims, as enforcement; politically, between dominators and dominated, as repression; culturally, between alienators and alienated, as conditioning.
Empires have different profiles. The US Empire has a complete configuration, articulated in a statement by a Pentagon planner: 'The de facto role of the United States Armed Forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing.' In other words, direct violence to protect structural violence legitimized by cultural violence.