| 271 | How To Get To Know a Disabled Person Preview: When you first meet someone who is blind, deaf, or in a wheelchair, what is your initial reaction? Curiosity? Sympathy? Awkwardness? If you experience any of these emotions, you are not alone. Chances are you don't regularly associate with someone who is disabled, so these feelings are quite common. Having been blind since birth, I have encounte... (more) Published By: Stephen Michael Kerr Submitted: 19 October,2004 |
| 272 | Drinking and Driving - Will Your Child Become a Statistic? Preview: Drinking and Driving - Will Your Child Become a Statistic? by C. Bailey-Lloyd Just two days ago, another 15-year old child was added to the overwhelming statistics of drunk-driving, related deaths. One minute, he's full of vitality and attending our local high school, the next his unsuspecting parents are identifying him in a local morgue. The ha... (more) Published By: C. Bailey-Lloyd/LadyCamelot Submitted: 20 October,2004 |
| 273 | TAX is killing the American dream Preview: Some say that our politicians are in the same neighborhood in their thoughts as our founding fathers. I don't know if I would go so far as say, "they are in the same neighborhood". However, they are still Americans - which is a very good thing. But, they are far too removed from the lives of the ordinary person to be considered neighborly. You ha... (more) Published By: United Citizens of America Submitted: 20 October,2004 |
| 274 | Job Recovery Not Coming Preview: India is beginning negotiations with the World Trade Organization to ease visa restrictions for Indian professionals. There is some deal-making going on in Geneva. These Geneva talks are a framework for advancing the “Doha Round” of negotiations. You cannot find much information about these talks in the U.S. press, but by using Google, you can se... (more) Published By: United Citizens of America Submitted: 20 October,2004 |
| 275 | FahrenHYPE 9/11 Preview: This documentary analyzes Fahrenheit 9/11 point by point. It's not just a dispute of the facts in Fahrenheit 9/11, it has interviews with people who appeared in Fahrenheit 9/11 who either felt mislead by Michael Moore or didn't know that they would be in his movie at all. FahrenHYPE 9/11 begins with Michael Moore declaring "There is no terrorist ... (more) Published By: Rocky Ramsey Submitted: 24 October,2004 |
| 276 | The War of the Words: Are Heterosexual Monogamists the Patent Holders on ‘Marriage’? Preview: There is much debate of late as to who is the patent holder on the term ‘Marriage’. Conservative heterosexual monogamists have put their moral stake in the ground claiming that 'Marriage' is their intellectual property. The proponents of a traditional definition can be subdivided into the religious, who claim divine rights to the word, and tradit... (more) Published By: Martin Winer Submitted: 24 October,2004 |
| 277 | Me and My Councilor Preview: “Young man, sit down please. Yes you may put your feet up, just relax and tell me a little bit about yourself.” I have no formal qualifications; I have a Master Degree in Clothing Design from some unremembered polytechnic down south. My mother and many others often told me that I have a way with people so I ended up being a councilor for trouble... (more) Published By: Ieuan Dolby Submitted: 25 October,2004 |
| 278 | Encouraging Women encourages women from all walks of life.
Dr Caroline Taylor comes to Nhill Preview: ... (more) Published By: Lisa Mostyn Submitted: 29 October,2004 |
| 279 | The Exhausted Dream Preview: Available online at: http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/content/issue12/features/exhausteddream.php About the Author Contributing writer to Newtopiamagazine.net... (more) Published By: Glenn Brigaldino Submitted: 29 October,2004 |
| 280 | Peace Preview: Peace is a state of mind. Peace is not the absence of war; war cannot exist in a state of peace. War is not an option for peaceful beings. Peace is a state of mind, an intention to live peacefully with all beings. Waging war will never bring peace, just a temporary cessation of war. The last war fuels and justifies the next war. The last war teac... (more) Published By: Jerry Lopper Submitted: 02 November,2004 |
| 281 | NAGALAND PEACE PROCESS: A JOURNEY WITH SEVERAL ROADBLOCKS Preview: Article Resource: www.himalayanaffairs.org The complexity of the Nagaland issue makes it more necessary for the government to carry on with the peace process in a planned and structured manner. The peace talks with National Socialist Council of Nagalim (IM) and the government for the last seven years an renewal of ceasefire is indeed a giant step... (more) Published By: Lalith Submitted: 03 November,2004 |
| 282 | Workaholism, Leisure and Pleasure - Part II Preview: The emotional leap was only a question of time. Historically, people went to work because they had to. What they did after work was designated as "pleasure". Now, both work and leisure were pleasurable - or torturous - or both. Some people began to enjoy their work so much that it fulfilled the functions normally reserved to leisure time. They are... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 04 November,2004 |
| 283 | Collective Narcissism - Narcissism, Culture, and Society Preview: In their book "Personality Disorders in Modern Life", Theodore Millon and Roger Davis state, as a matter of fact, that pathological narcissism was the preserve of "the royal and the wealthy" and that it "seems to have gained prominence only in the late twentieth century". Narcissism, according to them, may be associated with "higher levels of Masl... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 06 November,2004 |
| 284 | A Culture Of Life Preview: I have a question for the pro-lifers: if you truly believe that there is no distinction between someone that shoots and kills another human being and an impregnated mother who decides to abort a fetus, then why don't you do something about it? If your child or your neighbor's child was being attacked by a madman that was going to kill, wouldn't y... (more) Published By: The Independent Voice Submitted: 06 November,2004 |
| 285 | The Emerging Water Wars - Part I Preview: Growing up in Israel in the 1960's, we were always urged to conserve precious water. Rainfall was rare and meager, the sun scorching, our only sweet water lake under constant threat by the Syrians. Israelis were being shot at hauling water cisterns or irrigating their parched fields. Water was a matter of life and death - literally. Drought often... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 10 November,2004 |
| 286 | The Emerging Water Wars - Part II Preview: All the lakes around Mexico City have dried and it is now sinking into the cavernous remains of its withered reservoirs. Soil subsidence is a major problem in cities around the world, from Bangkok to Venice. According to "The Economist", the town of Cochabamba in Bolivia, once a florid valley is now a dust bowl. Some of its residents receive water... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 10 November,2004 |
| 287 | Curbing the Public Nuisance (Part 2) Preview: Curbing the Public Nuisance (Part 2) By David Leonhardt Yes, that pillar of society that has been with us since that slithery dude threw humanity for a curve in the Garden of Eden – that cornerstone of society has been automated. I am speaking, of course, of the public nuisance ( I wrote about him in Part 1 at http://www.thehappyguy.com/nuisance... (more) Published By: David Leonhardt Submitted: 11 November,2004 |
| 288 | Curbing the Public Nuisance (Part 1) Preview: Curbing the Public Nuisance (Part 1) By David Leonhardt He's been around since the dawn of humanity. His profession is even older than the world's oldest profession. He's been loathed and reviled by politicians, bureaucrats and hot dog vendors. I am speaking, of course, of the public nuisance. He was that slithery dude in the Garden of Eden, ta... (more) Published By: David Leonhardt Submitted: 11 November,2004 |
| 289 | Entrepreneurship and Workaholism - Part I Preview: The Dutch proudly point to their current rate of unemployment at less than 2%. Labour force participation is at a historically high 74% (although in potential man-hour terms it stands at 62%). France is as hubristic with its labour policies - the 35 hours week and the earlier reduction in employers' participation in social contributions. Employmen... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 14 November,2004 |
| 290 | Entrepreneurship and Workaholism - Part II Preview: This is part of a much larger wave of in-house corporate innovation dubbed "intrapreneurship". The most famous example is "Post-It" which was developed, in-house, by a 3M employee and funded by the company. But all major and medium American firms encourage institutionalized intrapreneurship. Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship are often associa... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 14 November,2004 |