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Feb.12.2009
Phoenix caused a flurry recently when he told a camera crew that he was done making films, over acting and planned instead to focus on his music. Attending a Paul Newman tribute, Phoenix's words with met with skepticism and many thought he was joking, but his publicist confirmed his plans to change...
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Feb.01.2009
I decided to begin a blog last fall when my husband and I took a trip to Southeast Asia. We went to Hong Kong and my husband's childhood home, the Philippines. I wanted to chronicle and share my thoughts and experiences from the trip.
Since returning from our trip, I have continued to write about...
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Jan.18.2009
I have heard just like everyone smoking causes cancer, well I’ve been doing some research on some the government ordered additives that farmers have to use in order to have there product sellable to the public.
Well in the research I’ve done and it blew my mind was BHA and BTH the symptons verses...
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Dec.03.2008
The present world looks for common factors to the Humanity. It stretches out towards mankind's unity. It is creating the universal man. Writers, scientists, artists, languages are henceforth considered a common heritage. They belong to humanity. The UNO rely on national competencies for the...
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Nov.30.2008
In his second trip to Brazil in the 16th century, German soldier and mariner Hans Staden was held captive by the Tupinambá tribe. During the nine months of his captivity he was able to witness facts of those people´s every day life, including the way they treated their captured enemies. According...
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Nov.30.2008
In his interesting blog discussing the relationship of violence and language, Hammoudi Abdelwahab proposes a multi-lingual philosophy as a bridge to peace - and he has spoken elsewhere about how cultures are enriched when people are prepared to engage with 'foreigners' in their native tongue. No...
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Nov.14.2008
Terence answered to his neighbor, who told him to mind his own business: Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto. - I am a man, nothing human is alien to me.
Immigration is always a very curious issue to me. Especially in the Americas. As I write, I keep thinking that I´d simply not exist, as I...
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Oct.10.2008
The Nobel has landed in the French lap. Writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio has won the 2008 Prize for Literature.
The citation lauds him as the
“author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.”
Huh? Are not all...
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Oct.03.2008
Journalism was once a completely respectable profession.
Reporters traditionally have been trained writers, and for me one of their real virtues has always been that they write well – sometimes extremely well – on a tight deadline. Anyone who has struggled for years writing a novel – as I have, on...
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Sep.30.2008
The new rudeness is silence.
I first became aware of this during the dot.com bust of 2000, when I was working as a marketing executive for an internet software start-up in San Francisco. This was one of those companies, still very much in evidence, that was run by men under thirty years old whose...
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