Can we talk? (New Times Weekly)
I took my family to a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event at a San Luis Obispo church this year. The polite way to describe the size of the crowd would be "a smattering."...more...Top medic blasts delay in treating troops (Daily Telegraph)
Wounded British troops are being evacuated from the battlefield more slowly than the Americans managed in Vietnam 40 years ago, one of the Army's most senior surgeons has revealed....more... George Soros and His Top Holdings: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, JetBlue Airways, Qual-Comm, Halliburton, Bluefly Inc (Guru Focus)
George Soros started his noteworthy careers in 1970 when he co-founded the Quantum Fund with Jim Rogers, who is also a Guru on Gurufocus.com. His returns were remarkable yielding 3,365% from 1970-1980. 3,365%, or 42.5% per year for 10 years is quite a feat....more... COVER STORY (Style Weekly)
A movement to ?buy local? has shoppers scouring for food grown close to home. Are farmers? markets headed for a revival? by Chris Dovi Reggie Gordon looks conspicuous, out of place wandering between stalls at the Byrd House farmers? market....more... Dual careers worry academia (Boston Globe)
Caroline and Blair Hoxby fell in love in college, not only with each other but with the scholarly life....more... Holyrood committee veteran turns down Salmond offer (The Scotsman)
ALEX Neil, one of the most experienced back-benchers at Holyrood, surprised his party yesterday when he refused to become a committee convener....more... SNP ministers face losing control of £30 billion budget for Scotland (The Scotsman)
THE Nationalist government could be forced to drop key policies after opposition parties promised to strip ministers of their exclusive right to alter the Executive's annual budget....more... Players choose different paths to Majors (MLB.com)
Players choose different paths to Majors...more... Hell optional, heaven postponed (Guardian Unlimited)
In the mid-20th century, the Pelican Histories of England provided hundreds of thousands of students with their first reliable introduction to the past. ST Bindoff on Tudor England and JH Plumb on the 18th century became instant classics and their sales figures must have been immense....more... |