SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE (Orlando Weekly)
Training Iraqi soldiers in SWAT procedures didn?t seem like mercenary work to Greg, who took a yearlong leave of absence from a Midwestern police department to spend a year in Baghdad as a contract employee with a private military corporation....more...Yahoo Steps Up Push Into Mobile-Software Arena (Cellular-News.com)
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- In a move to grab ground in the emerging mobile arena, Yahoo said it will launch on Friday an improved version of its suite of software for cellphone users in the U.S. and unveil test versions in 13 other countries....more... Our partners (PcPlus)
1.Bloor Homes - Southwest Region - Up to date on new developments over the south west of England. House types, descriptions, sale status and layouts can be viewed online....more... Pune NGO's 'poverty mapping' helps identify low income groups in Indonesia (Indian Express via Yahoo! India News)
CITY-based NGO Shelter Associates (SA) - working towards the betterment of slum dwellers - has demonstrated a technique called 'poverty mapping' in a settlement in Surabaya, Indonesia to help identify clusters of low income communities and provide them with individual water connections. Pratima Joshi from SA, invited by USAID/Eco Asia to demonstrate poverty mapping in Surabaya, says the aim of ......more... Nurturing students, green spaces (Sakonnet Times)
Janet Jones is retired now but she is a long-time educator who taught high school in New York State and at Middlesex Community College. In 1970, she started working for Metco, a state-funded educational program in Cambridge, as a tutor....more... Stephen Lendman: Noam Chomsky's ?Interventions? - Book Review (The Palestine Chronicle)
This review covers a healthy sampling of Chomsky's book dealing mostly with foreign policies but also some domestic ones in a post-9/11 world. Noam Chomsky is MIT Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics and has been a leading political and social critic of US imperial policy for over 40 years....more... Entertainment (Daily Dispatch)
Bollywood?s top family to tour by KATHERINE HADDON MEMBERS of India?s top acting dynasty announced that they are to star in a blockbuster stage show which the Bollywood film industry hopes will boost worldwide interest in its movies. Amitabh Bachchan, his son Abhishek and dau......more... News Categories (Yemen Observer)
Amnesty International-U.K. launched yesterday a new campaign to combat the repression of Internet sites around the world. This campaign was announced at a recent conference entitled, ?Some People Think the Internet is a Bad Thing: The Struggle for Freedom of Expression in Cyberspace.?...more... Married to the mountains (Vancouver Province)
Just days into their marriage, Vancouver resident Esther Kafer watched in shock as her husband Martin dangled from the end of a rope over a mountain ledge in the Swiss Alps....more... |