Posted on 22 April 2008 by rom
The Department of Health - apparently caving to pressure from big media - has gone ahead and released the names of the doctors and nurses involved in the Black Suede incident. Did they have to?
The other day, Ted Failon didn’t make attempt to hide his disgust at the person he was interviewing who refused to [...]
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Posted on 22 April 2008 by rom
John Mangun wrote a sharp article on Intellectual Property Rights, and it really got my goat. In it, he talks about a man named Oman, a lecturer on IPR at George Washington University. He quotes Oman:
As countries become richer, IPR protection increases. Mr. Oman’s thesis is that it is in the long-term economic interest for [...]
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Posted on 22 April 2008 by rom
So who says actors aren’t worth anything?
Today, April 22nd, we celebrate Earth Day. The first celebration of Earth Day was in 1970, in the US. Since then, it has been called the “largest secular holiday in the world;” celebrated in at least 175 countries, by more than half a billion people across the world.
What does [...]
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