STORY:DANIEL A. AFORO Age can’t be cheated The question I asked myself everytime is, why some countries have disscociated itself from the FIFA U-17 competition, of which England is a perfect example. I was told the answer to my headcahe was “age cheating.” Interesting, isnt it . According to […]
Is weight loss surgery a cop out from addressing an issue with food?
Does weight loss surgery give individuals a cop out from putting forth the effort to exercise? In the battle of weight issues in this day and age medical science is offering those who struggled to lose weight, but is it really as effective as they make it? It seems as if the people who get […]
Could the Virginia Tech shooting been avoided?
In light of recent events this just gets added to the list of school shootings that have taken place over the last 5+ years and what seems to be motive is identical the perpetrators are young white males under the age of 21 with a history of disturbing behavior either expressed through writing or other […]
TB wake-up call for Africa
The recent emergence of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in South Africa is not only the result of poor treatment adherence by TB patients. It stems from years of neglect endured by TB programmes throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The current scale of the region’s drug resistance challenge is poorly understood, and African TB programmes are […]
Lebanon free trade, blessing or curse?
Undeterred by the protracted political crisis, Lebanon will begin its third round of negotiations for membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva next month, but civil society groups fear that the costs of accession could far outweigh the benefits of increased access to Western markets in the absence of a clearly defined national […]