Author ArchiveA Women’s Mariachi Band Sings Its Way Through Traditional Male Turf The prestige of honorary degrees falls to record lows. Note: "Not a few universities have been caught by the twists of history, awarding an honorary degree to someone who later turns out to be a dictator or other species of political monster: the University of Edinburgh and the University of Massachusetts (Boston) conferred honorary degrees on Robert Mugabe that one may be sure they wished they hadn't." Mugabe is the president of Zimbabwe, he 'won' the 2002 election after his opponent was arrested for treason. He's one of the world's worst human rights offenders, "according to the World Health Organization, Zimbabwe has the world’s shortest life expectancy—37 years for men and 34 for women." He's no Kermit the Frog… Two visions of the ideal city rise in the Persian Gulf More on Masdar city from NYTimes, Dot Earth Blog 2/4/08 One would have intuitively thought that consumer countries would have been developing this kind of thing…perhaps it even costs less than war….
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Bollywood goes global with Hollywood movie dealPosted by: Ms. Anonymous in UncategorizedAnyone that can guess the third largest film industry in the world after hollywood and bollywood without cheating gets a cookie. In spirit. arning: this is a BBC article, so it is written in English English, but it's quite a funny example of the silly things that can make up 'scandals'. My favorites are the ones about bananas, sausages, and fire poles. Funny how a lot of these 'scandals' concern things that Freud would describe as..well..nevermind, just read and enjoy! Euromyths Can anyone list the famous Seven Wonders of the World? It’s ok if you can’t, because now you can make history and choose sites for a new list! And even if you don’t care about lists, these finalists make for some great travel ideas….mmm….traaavelll…. |
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