<div><span style="font-size: 11pt"><strong><u>What Fashion is about?</u></strong></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 11pt">This question troubles me a lot, especially when I watch on television all those designers talk about the new trends in fashion and what we have to wear every season. Is there a rule? Or is it just a matter of spending money. If fashion was changing every one […]
If I Were President
<p>I have an abundance of awards and ribbons for almost every athletic activity. Running, Jumping, Sit-ups, and Pull-ups. I have always been very political, but just never pursued the field because the people I would share my time with would end up being other politicians. However, in light of the situation at hand I feel […]
Green Party form government in Ireland
After twenty-six years in the political wilderness Ireland’s Green Party have finally succumbed to the lure of political office. Born on the 3rd of December, 1981, in Dublin’s Central Hotel, the party formerly known as the Ecology Party of Ireland (EPI) was formed by school teacher Christopher Fettes at a meeting attended by no more than […]
G8 SUMMIT: Fury at fresh Leaked Climate manuscript
Friends of the Earth today showed irritation at the content of a fresh seep out of the outline declaration on climate change for next month’s G8 Summit which has deleted proposals to fund explore and disturbingly even calls into question scientists’ warnings that global climate change is by now in progress. […]
A Dead Bear on the Front Page
Last week, our local paper, The Times News, published a picture of a 12 year old girl and the bear she had shot on the front page. The girl was obviously proud of her trophy, but I had to wonder if this is really the message that we want to send to our children; that […]
Web Site Charts 3 Months of Violence
In the beginning of 2007, more precisely on Jan. 31, a month after Rio de Janeiro went through one of its most violent episodes, a Web site (in Portuguese and some English) was created out of sheer outrage by a few "cariocas" — born in Rio — who simply couldn’t stand the situation anymore. The […]