Book review Joana Blythman, Britain’s leading investigative food journalist tells us in The Food We Eat: The Book You Cannot Afford to Ignore that “There are 3,000 or so genetically altered or ‘transgenic’ foods that have to date been tested worldwide. Unlike traditional breeding, genetic engineering permits scientists to move genetic material – DNA – …
Book Review 2011 Week 2 MOTHER TERESA: HER PEOPLE & HER WORK DESMOND DOIG COLLINS FOUNT PAPERBACK 1976 PART II Chapter 2: Calcutta: Setting for a Mission • Calcutta, once known as the City of Palaces because of its pretentious public buildings and its extravagant private residences set in well-tended gardens, has always been a …
THE LEXUS AND THE OLIVE TREE UNDERSTANDING GLOBALIZATION THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN FARRAR STRAUS GIROUX 1999 PART I Opening Scene: The World Is Ten Years Old • On the morning of December 8, 1997, the government of Thailand announced that it was closing 56 of the country’s 58 top finance houses. Almost overnight, these private banks …
FROM THESSALONIKI TO AUSCHWITZ AND BACK MEMORIES OF A SURVIVOR FROM THESSALONIKI ERIKA MYRIAM KOUNIO AMARIGLIO VALLENTINE MITCHELL 2000 Translated into English by Theresa Sundt (neé Amariglio) Thessaloniki 1998 PART III Chapter 3: Arrival in Auschwitz and Birkenau • It was 20 March 1943. Another stop, but this time they opened the doors. Wild cries, …
Book review In Proof Positive: How to Reliably Combat Disease & Achieve Optimal Health Through Nutrition & Lifestyle Neil Nedley, M.D. we learn that “The World Health Organization states that a program is needed of ‘primordial’ prevention; that is, do something about it before the epidemic occurs. It is possible to reduce coronary heart disease …
2011 Diary Week 1 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Part 5 of the review of Hell and High Water: Global Warming – the Solution and the Politics – and What We Should Do by Joseph J. Romm is below. Here are a few snippets: “About two-thirds of U.S. oil consumption is …
MOTHER TERESA: HER PEOPLE & HER WORK DESMOND DOIG COLLINS FOUNT PAPERBACK 1976 PART I Prayer of St Francis of Assisi Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace, Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is …
2010 week 52 Book review These are some snippets from Part 4 of The Eskimo Diet: How to Avoid Heart Attack by Dr. Reg Saynor and Dr. Franklin Ryan reviewed below: “In the doses we recommend we are not aware of any side-effect of fish oil. Even reviewing the world literature, it is very difficult …
FROM THESSALONIKI TO AUSCHWITZ AND BACK MEMORIES OF A SURVIVOR FROM THESSALONIKI ERIKA MYRIAM KOUNIO AMARIGLIO VALLENTINE MITCHELL 2000 Translated into English by Theresa (neé Amariglio) Thessaloniki 1998 PART II Chapter 2: German Occupation and Deportation • On the first day of September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. That was it! The Second World War had …
2010 Diary week 51 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Part 4 of the review of Hell and High Water: Global Warming – the Solution and the Politics – and What We Should Do by Joseph J. Romm is below. Here are a few snippets: “The biggest climate threat in the power …
