South Africa's growing economy may be slowing, but its appetite for energy is not. The nation has struggled to keep pace with its need for fuel and power and continues to expand its use of...
11/20/08
HuaiHai Institute of Technology
Today I had the pleasure of teaching some second-year students the intricacies of the sentence. I expounded on the endless joys and functions of this fundamental mode of communication. My students now...
An interesting short read (less than 100 pages) is Bohumil Hrabal's Too Loud a Solitude, a story of Hanta's 35 years as a compactor of wastepaper and books in a Czech police state. One review...
Below is the first of a dozen interviews I did with technology entrepreneurs at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. The responses are people's views of Obama's victory, particularly...
Check out the Kilili Self Help Project, an initiative that trains Kenyans in sustainable farming practices. It's interesting to note that half the graduates are women. The project supports the work of trained and certified...
I ran into some folks tonight who know the founders of the Q Fund, an organization dedicated to ensure a free education for vulnerable children so they can realize their dreams and talents. Yes, education,...
The San Francisco Opera is presenting L'elisir d'amore by the 19th century Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti this fall. If you want spring to come early go see it.
It's an ideal choice to introduce yourself or...
Miriam Makeba passed away right after a performance in Italy on November 9th.
Writes the New York Times about her history and life, "Miriam Makeba had been a prominent exiled opponent of apartheid since the South...
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