Cuba And Its Defence Of All Human Rights (Scoop.co.nz) Outline of 200 years of aggression and hostility by the United States towards the Cuban nation....more...China, India alter global finance, business, outsourcing, politics map: what is next? (cmi valparaíso) how to get best opportunities from emerging giants China, India, and Japan?...more... Letters to the Editor for June 24, 2007 (Midland Reporter-Telegram) Concerning a letter from Nancy McKinley in last Sunday's Reporter-Telegram, shame on us Midland for letting the invaluable service and the irreplaceable historical knowledge of McKinley leave the historical museum staff without so much as a thank you from the powers that be and from our city....more... River shacks will be illegal in five years (The Times and Democrat) So-called river shacks now must be permitted -- and no such water structure will be legal five years from now. Owners of floating water structures on the state's waters must pply for a permit from the S.C. Department of Natural Resources to keep those structures....more... Dissecting disaster (The Daily Iowan) The subtitle of Mark Levine's new nonfiction book, F5, informs that what follows will be a story of "DEVASTATION, SURVIVAL, AND THE MOST VIOLENT TORNADO OUTBREAK OF THE 20TH CENTURY." Which kind of makes it sound like a breathless Sebastian Junger or Jon Krakauer title, with a typical tragedy-porn narrative of death and a few plucky humans who overcome, against all odds, etc....more... Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups (Crikey) Ailie Bruins writes : Re. "Make no mistake, Howard's NT plan is a new apartheid" (yesterday, item 1). As a former South African I agree that this jackboot, short-term solution to systemic problems in the neglected, dysfunctional indigenous communities is doomed to failure....more... An Overview of Selected Legal Digital Libraries (LLRX.com) Assessing the best and the worst of legal digital libraries has been a hot topic recently (see Ambrogi, 2004). More and more digital libraries and repositories are coming into existence (see, e.g., NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository, 2007). The purpose of this paper is to review ten digital libraries from the legal field....more... River shacks will be illegal in five years (The Times and Democrat) So-called river shacks now must be permitted -- and no such water structure will be legal five years from now. Owners of floating water structures on the state's waters must now apply for a permit from the S.C. Department of Natural Resources to keep those structures....more... Wabbit-hunting season! Golden hares and horses, jewel-encrusted wands and plenty of cash await intrepid armchair ... (The Davis Enterprise) Published Mar 22, 2007 - 17:48:37 CDT. By now, thanks to considerable recent publicity, many of you have become familiar with the pastime of geocaching. No doubt some of you even spend your weekends roaming the wilderness in search of concealed containers....more... |