An interesting, yet important storm of audiovisual productions is shaking Costa Rica’s attentive eager audience this year. Costa Rican bloggers provide their thoughts to the new cinematic offerings. Miguel Gomez and his film El Cielo Rojo (The Red Sky) debuted at the beginning of August getting favorable reviews from experts and general viewers. Cristian Cambronero […]
Cue Lloyd Bentsen
Dan Quayle: I have far more experience than many others that sought the office of vice president of this country. I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency. I will be prepared to deal with the people in the Bush administration, if that unfortunate event would […]
AIDS Conference Youth: a Force to be Reckoned with
Posted by Juliana Rincón Parra to Global Voices Online The International AIDS Conference takes place every two years, and this year was the first time it took place in Latin America. Between August 3rd and August 8th, delegates from all over the world arrived at Mexico City to discuss issues surrounding this health topic. The […]
Wal-Mart’s Attempt to Kill Employee Choice Backfires
Posted by James Parks to AFL-CIO NOW When Wal-Mart tried to squelch the Employee Free Choice Act by requiring its employees to sit through mandatory meetings that stress the downside for workers if stores were to be unionized, it didn’t expect the idea would backfire. But after The Wall Street Journal broke the story Friday, […]
Toyota’s ‘Just-in-Time’ System and the Akihabara Killings
Posted by Chris Salzburg to Global Voices Online (Note: the translation in this post was a collaborative effort by blogger and translator nofrills, blogger and GV author Taku Nakajima, user Saifis, and GV editor Chris Salzberg) When Tomohiro Kato killed 7 people and injured many more in Tokyo’s Akihabara district last month, the details of […]
Randy Pausch, Last Lecture Professor, Dies at 47
Randy Pausch, a terminally ill computer science teacher at Carnegie Mellon who became famous for his "last lecture" about realizing one’s dreams, died at age 47. Randy Pausch’s one hour and 15 minute lecture has logged over three million views on YouTube since it was posted in December of 2007. At the time of the recording […]
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