Australia’s longest running soap Neighbours continues to defy the hallowed ratings system on which television networks heavily base their programming decisions.
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Tony Joe White lays it down
The name Tony Joe White may not ring a bell, maybe not even his moniker, The Swamp Fox, but chances are you’re familiar with a lot of the songs he’s written.
Indigenous Peruvians Protest Pollution, Death at Airport
As a hearse bearing the body of Ral Cancapa made its way through the dark streets of Juliaca, a city in the Andes in southern Peru, on Saturday evening, June 25, the mourners tailing the procession solemnly chanted for justice. Cancapa’s widow walked with her relatives and gave a quick interview to local media before bursting into tears and being escorted into a car
Bitter Histories: An Exile from Syria’s Past Chaos Tends to Fresh Exiles
The white-haired, 61-year old exile has come to the hospital to see the refugees from Syria.
The CIA’s Secret Army: The CIA’s Secret Army
The U.S. is not yet at war with Saddam Hussein.
Why Drugs Cost So Much / The Issues ’04: Why We Pay So Much for Drugs
Helen Clark of Kennebunk, Maine, is a smuggler of sorts. At 77, the retired registered nurse doesn’t look the part.
African Immigrants in Italy: Slave Labor for the Mafia
Xenophobes in homogenous European countries often complain that immigrants will erase their most precious cultural norms. The race riots in southern Italy last weekend may be one indicator that change is inevitable, as African immigrants who don’t live by the country’s infamous omert code of silence violently protested against the powerful Mafia clans that control their lives, says Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorrah, an anti-Mob book that earned him both critical praise and a 24-hour police guard.
Viewpoint: A Soldier’s Reflection for Memorial Day
It is the early days of January 2010 and the Company forms to the front of the memorial display at the chapel of the forward operating base in Afghanistan, the backdrop for the small shrine the crossed staffs of an American flag and the regimental colors. An M4 rifle stands upright, its bayonet lodged into a felt covered wooden desk in front of the flags; the pistol grip facing the audience
Questions About Marijuana: Is Pot Good For You?
I never smoked pot in junior high because I was convinced it would shrivel my incipient manhood. This was the 1980s, and those stark this-is-your-brain-on-drugs ads already had me vaguely worried about memory loss and psychosis
Mississippi River Flooding: Army Corps to Open Morganza
It rained on southern Louisiana Thursday night, May 12 — and that made fears along the lower Mississippi River rise as high as the Big Muddy’s already dangerously swollen levels.