Two decades after his father's famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate, Michael Reagan pushes for the erection of a memorial to honor the former US President. In a 1987 speech in Berlin, Ronald Reagan famously implored, "Mr. Gorbachev! Tear down this wall!" Should monument-saturated Berlin build a memorial to Ronald Reagan? The backdrop was Berlin's historic Brandenburg Gate. But US President Ronald Reagan had a different structure in mind when he gave his famed speech on June 17, 1987. Just behind him ran the Berlin Wall, the concrete, barbed-wire and fortified barricade that had sliced through the city since August 1961. Reagan wanted it gone and issued a direct challenge to the leader of the Soviet Union: "Mr. Gorbachev! Tear down this wall!" Of course, these words alone did not bring about the end of Soviet Communism. Mikhail Gorbachev has even privately joked that it was women angered by a shortage of panty hose in Moscow that caused the Iron Curtain's fall. Ronald Reagan wasn't the first American president to leave his mark on a divided Berlin. In 1963, John F. Kennedy, on a visit to West Berlin, memorably pledged his solidarity, declaring, "I am a Berliner." Berlin has a school, a university department, a museum and a plaza named after Kennedy, but the capital has nothing commemorating Ronald Reagan.
Two decades after his father's famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate, Michael Reagan pushes for the erection of a memorial to honor the former US President. In a 1987 speech in Berlin, Ronald Reagan famously implored, "Mr. Gorbachev! Tear down this wall!"
Should monument-saturated Berlin build a memorial to Ronald Reagan? The backdrop was Berlin's historic Brandenburg Gate. But US President Ronald Reagan had a different structure in mind when he gave his famed speech on June 17, 1987. Just behind him ran the Berlin Wall, the concrete, barbed-wire and fortified barricade that had sliced through the city since August 1961. Reagan wanted it gone and issued a direct challenge to the leader of the Soviet Union: "Mr. Gorbachev! Tear down this wall!"
Of course, these words alone did not bring about the end of Soviet Communism. Mikhail Gorbachev has even privately joked that it was women angered by a shortage of panty hose in Moscow that caused the Iron Curtain's fall.
Ronald Reagan wasn't the first American president to leave his mark on a divided Berlin. In 1963, John F. Kennedy, on a visit to West Berlin, memorably pledged his solidarity, declaring, "I am a Berliner." Berlin has a school, a university department, a museum and a plaza named after Kennedy, but the capital has nothing commemorating Ronald Reagan.
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Moi je me changerai en chien Si je peux rester sur la terre Et comme réverbère quotidien Je m'offrirai Madame Thatcher
I'll change myself into a dogIf I can stay on earth And as a daily street lamp to piss onI'll offer myself Mrs Tatcher
BERLIN: Rushed for time last month, Gerhard Romen jumped on a departing tram in Frankfurt and waved his Nokia cellphone across an electronic reader at the door. The transit operator, Rhein-Main-Verkehrsbund, instantly charged the €2.20, or $3.48, fare to Romen's bank account in Helsinki. The transaction was made possible by mobile payment - a form of cashless consumption that uses a technology called near-field communication, which sends encoded payment data over distances of less than 10 centimeters, or about 4 inches. Romen, the director of near-field communications at Nokia, the largest cellphone maker in the world, said mobile money had the potential to eventually replace many kinds of cash payments. While the technology has been rolled out widely in Japan, getting these tiny wallets into the hands of mobile users has been more difficult in Europe and elsewhere - even though European companies have taken a leading role in developing the technology.
BERLIN: Rushed for time last month, Gerhard Romen jumped on a departing tram in Frankfurt and waved his Nokia cellphone across an electronic reader at the door.
The transit operator, Rhein-Main-Verkehrsbund, instantly charged the €2.20, or $3.48, fare to Romen's bank account in Helsinki.
The transaction was made possible by mobile payment - a form of cashless consumption that uses a technology called near-field communication, which sends encoded payment data over distances of less than 10 centimeters, or about 4 inches. Romen, the director of near-field communications at Nokia, the largest cellphone maker in the world, said mobile money had the potential to eventually replace many kinds of cash payments.
While the technology has been rolled out widely in Japan, getting these tiny wallets into the hands of mobile users has been more difficult in Europe and elsewhere - even though European companies have taken a leading role in developing the technology.
Adopting just a couple of elements of the Mediterranean diet could cut the risk of cancer by 12%, say scientists. A study of 26,000 Greek people found just using more olive oil alone cut the risk by 9%. The diet, reports the British Journal of Cancer, also includes higher amounts of fruits, vegetables, cereals, and less red meat. A separate study found adding broccoli to meals might help men vulnerable to prostate cancer cut their risk.
Adopting just a couple of elements of the Mediterranean diet could cut the risk of cancer by 12%, say scientists.
A study of 26,000 Greek people found just using more olive oil alone cut the risk by 9%.
The diet, reports the British Journal of Cancer, also includes higher amounts of fruits, vegetables, cereals, and less red meat.
A separate study found adding broccoli to meals might help men vulnerable to prostate cancer cut their risk.
It still probably as a lot of "not-sure-is-ok-method"..but generaly speaking it is the frist I would take into account. "Meditarranean diet" is clearly defined, groups of foods (arbitrary in a sense) "identify".. and a large number of follow-up to be statisticallys ignificant...
There area bunch of problems still... in the group assembly, and probably regarding the blindness of the method and the "way" people it.
But I would say that it is the first serious proof that certain types of diet improve health in an incremental way...it is the aggreagate that counts.
The famous advise to be healthy "eat food, not much, and with colors" can now be understood in a better , more scientific/human (not rats) context.
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
LONDON: Luxury-home prices in central London, the world's most expensive location for prime real estate, fell for a second month in June as sales slumped, Knight Frank said. The average price of houses and apartments in London's nine most expensive neighborhoods fell 1.7 percent in June from a month earlier, Knight Frank said Tuesday in a statement. That cut the annual increase to 7.5 percent, down from a peak of 38 percent in August. "There can be no doubt that even property in prime central London has been hit by the double whammy of the credit crunch and wider concerns over the global economy," said Liam Bailey, Knight Frank's head of residential research. Demand from the 300,000 bankers and others employed in financial services, which has underpinned the luxury London housing market, has dropped on concerns about job cuts and lower bonuses. Knight Frank said prime residential sales in London are down 60 percent from last year.
LONDON: Luxury-home prices in central London, the world's most expensive location for prime real estate, fell for a second month in June as sales slumped, Knight Frank said.
The average price of houses and apartments in London's nine most expensive neighborhoods fell 1.7 percent in June from a month earlier, Knight Frank said Tuesday in a statement. That cut the annual increase to 7.5 percent, down from a peak of 38 percent in August.
"There can be no doubt that even property in prime central London has been hit by the double whammy of the credit crunch and wider concerns over the global economy," said Liam Bailey, Knight Frank's head of residential research.
Demand from the 300,000 bankers and others employed in financial services, which has underpinned the luxury London housing market, has dropped on concerns about job cuts and lower bonuses. Knight Frank said prime residential sales in London are down 60 percent from last year.
A cold slice of watermelon has long been a Fourth of July holiday staple. But according to recent studies, the juicy fruit may be better suited for Valentine's Day. That's because scientists say watermelon has ingredients that deliver Viagra-like effects to the body's blood vessels and may even increase libido. "The more we study watermelons, the more we realize just how amazing a fruit it is in providing natural enhancers to the human body," said Dr. Bhimu Patil, director of Texas A&M's Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center in College Station.
"The more we study watermelons, the more we realize just how amazing a fruit it is in providing natural enhancers to the human body," said Dr. Bhimu Patil, director of Texas A&M's Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center in College Station.
"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
Pffft, pffft. Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
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From Time in a nutshell:
Robert Nelson, 36, a 6-ft. 3-in. San Franciscan, is a black-and-blue humorist who made one of the comic classics of the experimental cinema. Oh, Dem Watermelons is a daffy documentary about all the horrible things that can happen to watermelons. They get kicked like footballs, gutted like chickens, smashed on sidewalks, slashed with ice skates, riddled by bullets, split open and rubbed over the bodies of beautiful women. The monstrous irrelevance of it all is fracturingly funny--until suddenly the spectator realizes that the watermelon is meant to symbolize the Negro.
Children of all ages should study philosophy in school to develop their critical thinking skills, education experts said today.Academics suggest that, rather than start off with Socrates, teachers use common classroom disputes to help children learn about abstract philosophical principles such as fairness, morality and punishment. They give the example of apportioning blame for spilling paintThe book Philosophy in Schools, edited by Dr Michael Hand of the Institute of Education and Dr Carrie Winstanley of Roehampton University, puts forward several arguments for including philosophy in the school curriculum."Critical thinkers are people who reason well, and who judge and act on the basis of their reasoning," Hand says.
Academics suggest that, rather than start off with Socrates, teachers use common classroom disputes to help children learn about abstract philosophical principles such as fairness, morality and punishment. They give the example of apportioning blame for spilling paint
The book Philosophy in Schools, edited by Dr Michael Hand of the Institute of Education and Dr Carrie Winstanley of Roehampton University, puts forward several arguments for including philosophy in the school curriculum.
"Critical thinkers are people who reason well, and who judge and act on the basis of their reasoning," Hand says.
abstract philosophical principles such as fairness, morality
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