MIAMI — Former House speaker Newt Gingrich spent Friday struggling to fend off the perception that his presidential campaign has stalled after a flat debate performance on Thursday and fresh polling data showing his support slipping in Florida.
Amid the panic that consumed government debt markets in much of the world last year, Canada was a bastion of calm by comparison.
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The European Union and IMF want Greece to push through more budget cuts and implement a series of long-agreed austerity reforms before they agree on a new bailout the country needs to avert bankruptcy, …
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MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) – Jean-Claude Mas, whose breast implant firm Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) has sparked an international health scandal by using substandard silicon, was arrested on Thursday and could be charged with manslaughter, a Frenc…
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Equities, commodities and the euro extended gains on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve said it would keep interest rates low for a much longer-than-expected period, providing ample liquidity to help spur growth.
Two controversial anti-piracy bills, now effectively dead in the water, attracted enormous lobbying attention on both sides.
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Reuters – Amid tears, salutes and standing ovations, Representative Gabrielle Giffords submitted her resignation from Congress on Wednesday to focus on her recovery from an assassination attempt in Tucson, Arizona, last year.
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Downtweet a live Twitter streaming service has launched its real-time web based platform. Downtweet incorporates the ability for users to receive all Tweets in a live streaming space.
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kayaking in Huntington Beach State Park
If you’re a fan of kayaking like I am, you probably enjoy the sensation of of gliding across the water and feeling the gentle waves below you. Well I discovered a different sensation while kayaking through Huntington Beach Sate Park, near Myrtle Beach. I felt it shortly after I started paddling and felt something stuck on my paddle. It was smelly, greenish brown and it’s called pluff mud.
A pelican posing
Out guides explained that pluff mud was part of the unique joys of paddling through salt marshes. This thick mud has been known to pull off boots, shoes and paddles that have been stuck in it. Suffice it to say, I really built up my biceps between the pluff mud and spartina cord grass during the two hour tour. Black River Outdoors Center guides kayakers through the marshes and salt water creeks of Huntington State Park and it’s a really unique tour. We paddled through Drunken Jack Island, which is supposed to harbor Black Beard’s treasures and I spotted pelicans, ospreys and herons, though not the alligators that are supposed to hang around the marsh. I highly recommend waterproof pants for the tour because all that splashing doesn’t just land on the kayak. All that paddling works up an appetite so make your way to Bliss Restaurant and Lounge for a relaxed and elegant lunch. Try the pan-seared flounder with prosciutto hash.
Photos courtesy of Rosalind Cummings-Yeates
The iconic Parisian Palace, Le Royal Monceau – Raffles Paris reinvents Valentine’s Day with creative, elegant and sophisticated suggestions for the most romantic day of the year.
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How will two identical laptops fare in the hands of a child from a highly-developed country and a child from a developing country? For the purpose of easier comparison, let us all think for a while in the line of the advantages associated with the privileged and the limitations related to the less-privileged. A laptop in the hands of a child from the US or UK is probably a necessity in studying. Almost every child of school-age will have one or at least have easy access to one. On the other side of the world particularly in countries like Cambodia or Ethiopia, a laptop is a luxury, falling behind a long list of more pressing necessities such as food, shelter, and clothing.
Given this reality, all children regardless of status in life would want to have equal access to the opportunities presented by technology and whatever advancement it brings. This would probably explain the pictures of joy as seen on the recipients’ faces after receiving their own laptop through the highly-controversial “One Laptop Per Child” or OLPC initiative. After having to share one textbook with at least five other kids in class, is it at all surprising to feel such amazement in having a technological gadget which one can call his/her own?
Children who have automatic access to equipments such as a laptop are not only lucky because of their availability but also because of the prevailing physical convenience around them and the level of support available to them to maximize its use. The same cannot be said for the recipients of the free laptop in a third world country who obviously do not have the capacity and the ability to maximize the use of what they got. Unless a government agency or a non-government organization makes sure that the recipients and the teachers have been properly supported by funding and training, we can be pretty sure that the laptop will just go back straight to the box, never to serve its purpose of education.
Such wasted money for the purchasing country, such wasted learning opportunity for the child.
Whether professional athletes play for the love of the game or a nice payday, one thing is for certain: victory pays.
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