Earth Mother our Womb of Life Newsvine | Bigger, Stronger Storms, Quakes, & Eruptions | Global warming is real, but not for the reasons that have been put forth thus far. Some scientists have noted that greenhouse gases cannot adequately explain what is occurring; but no other theory has yet been announced to the public. | Something ...
Egyptian Leader's Surgery in the News Is News Itself The New York Times | CAIRO — Egypt’s longtime president, Hosni Mubarak, was recovering in a hospital in Germany on Saturday night after what doctors called a successful operation to remove his gallbladder, according to Egypt’s official MENA news agency. Related | Times Topic: Egypt | Mr. Mubarak, 81,...
Egypt's chilling conservatism The Guardian | It's no secret that in Egypt religious conservatism is growing. The only people denying this fact are the conservatives themselves, who tell us that we are on a path to hell in blind imitation of the west. | This conservatism has taken many undesir...
Mirror, Mirror: So, E!, whatever happened to 'Who are you wearing'? Philadelphia Daily News | By Elizabeth Wellington | Fashion Columnist When I saw Gabourey Sidibe strut her stuff during the Academy Awards red carpet walk Sunday night, I liked that her floor-length gown was a striking shade of blue with jeweled floral detailing along the b...
Come on board for cut-price Easter cruises The Times | Discounted deals on cruises are often for voyages months ahead but here are some good offers for cruises over Easter or starting in Easter week. Cruise & Maritime Voyages has big reductions on board Marco Polo, which sails south from Tilbury on Mar...
Franklin Regional High School's Musical Review WPXI MURRYSVILLE, Pa. -- Franklin Regional High School's musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" is another example of the top caliber performance that's come to be expected from Director Mark Wolfgang and the Franklin Regional student body...
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Ex-UN Nuclear Chief: Egypt Is Hungry for Change The New York Times | Filed at 10:05 a.m. ET | CAIRO (AP) -- The ex-U.N. nuclear chief who has emerged as an opposition leader in Egypt urged the government Saturday to respond to peaceful demands for...
Egypt: 3 Crew Members Die In Cruise Liner Accident CBS News Cruise Liner Slams Into Dock At Egyptian Red Sea Resort, Leaving 3 Crew Members Dead | Font size Print E-mail Share | (AP) | (AP) Previous slide Next slide (AP) AL-ARISH, Egypt (AP...
Art New Yorker | MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES | | METROPOLITAN MUSEUM | Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“The Drawings of Bronzino.” Through April 18. | “Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage.” This c...
Turkey and Egypt still top choices for holidaymakers TravelDailyNews | Current booking trends at On the Beach, the UK’s leading online travel agent suggest that Turkey and Egypt will once again be most popular destinations for British holidaymakers this summer. Destinations across Turkey and Egypt are selling ab...
Iraqi Voters Defy Violence Wall Street Journal By CHARLES LEVINSON | Associated Press | Rescuers searched for bodies under the rubble after a blast leveled a building in northeastern Baghdad. | BAGHDAD—Despite a spasm of violence early Sunday, Iraqis flocked to the polls in what appeared to...
Striking women's art from the Islamic world Star Tribune | For decades, the primary image that Americans have been offered of women in Islamic countries is of veiled figures striding through open-air markets, waiting in doorways or peering warily through slits in their head coverings. Their lives have remained mostly blank slates suggesting nothing of their education, aspirations, home life, travels, pol...
Malaria: A Scourge as Old as King Tut The New York Times | In death if not in life, a bond unites King Tut, Egypt’s boy pharaoh, with the multitudes high and especially low through human history. Palace walls could not shield him from the enemy without: the anopheles mosquitoes infesting the Nile Valley with malaria parasites. A post-mortem on Tutankhamen’s mummy, scientists reported last wee...
