Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid
By Peter Gill
(Oxford University Press, 280 pp., $27.95)
In the fall of 1994, James P. Grant, the executive director of UNICEF, sent a message in the name of his agency to the upcoming Cairo conference on population and development, in which he declared that the world had within its grasp the...
At the Washington Independent, Dave Weigel talks to some conservatives who believe that Obama's plan to slightly raise taxes on folks making over $250,000 a year amounts to socialism, and who plan (or at least talk about) "going John Galt" to evade them. The reference is to an Ayn Rand book in which some of rich folks, characterized as the true...
Stand back, he bites: British fisherman grapples with ferocious 'giant piranha'... which has been known to eat CROCODILES
By RICHARD JAMES
British angler Jeremy Wade looks understandably anxious as he grapples with this ferocious-looking 'giant piranha'.
The 52-year-old caught the aptly-named goliath tigerfish during a fishing expedition up...
Sex Trafficking Seen Muscling Out Drugs as Cartel Profit Center
Seriousness of problem exposed at SA ‘summit’
By Jim Forsyth
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Texas officials say as the United States makes it harder for Mexican gangs to run drugs across the border, many of the criminal organizations are turning to an even more lucrative...
