In the latest issue of Edge the well-known Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker questions the popular assertion that "China will be the next scientific and economic power." What prompted Pinker to question that...
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Reading the accounts in various media of about a 77 tonnes arms consignment from China to Zimbabwe really makes an average person wonder about the sanity of the governing body of the Peoples Republic of China, the host of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Why would any...
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The International Olympic Committee - IOC
is clear in its published ‘Olympic Charter In force As From 7 July 2007’. In
this document it outlines its grand, and specific standards of behaviour
expected of a nation which wishes to host the Olympic Games.
By default, any...
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By: George Sooros, in the Financial Times, Published: January 22, 2008. Soros says that the current financial
crisis was precipitated by a bubble in the US housing market.George Soros addresses the problems generated by a market that is as good as out of hand...
Sad news. Jim McGreevey, X governor of New Jersey, has suffered a chutzpa relapse. Forced to resign in 2004 after a string of corruption scandals and toxic appointments, McGreevey muddied the waters by revealing he was gay. Implying social intolerance had something to do with...
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