Archive for November, 2007

Wednesday Night #1339 Update: One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
November 13, 2007, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1339 Update: One Laptop per Child (OLPC)

Give One Get One The OLPC project, which we have been following for some time, is dear to our hearts and has been discus ...

Comparative oil royalties – Alberta's are low
November 12, 2007, Comments Off on Comparative oil royalties – Alberta's are low

Sharing the spoils Nov 6th 2007 From Economist.com OIL prices seem to hit a new peak each week. This is good news for go ...

Robert Galbraith: Voices of Afghanistan
November 11, 2007, 1 Comment

Voices of Afghanistan By Robert J. Galbraith, Exclusive to The Suburban Kabul, Afghanistan — For over a month, my coll ...

Democracy’s Root: Diversity — Tom Friedman
November 11, 2007, Comments Off on Democracy’s Root: Diversity — Tom Friedman

November 11, 2007 By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Last Tuesday, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia met Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican ...

Backing away from ethanol makes sense – Editorial
November 11, 2007, Comments Off on Backing away from ethanol makes sense – Editorial

Sunday, November 11, 2007 Quebec’s decision to back away from developing a corn-based ethanol industry in the prov ...

Improving academic performance
November 11, 2007, Comments Off on Improving academic performance

We applaud the ideas in this column and hope that our own Wednesday Night School Commissioner and her colleagues will re ...

Extinctions could cut plant productivity in half
November 10, 2007, Comments Off on Extinctions could cut plant productivity in half

November 9, 2007 by Eve Savory, CBCNews.ca In a study that has startled even its authors, scientists have concluded that ...

CBC pulls film after calls from Chinese embassy
November 9, 2007, 1 Comment

Documentary follows the Falun Gong movement James Cowan, National Post November 08, 2007 The CBC postponed the airing of ...

Yahoo isn't the only villain
November 8, 2007, Comments Off on Yahoo isn't the only villain

The Internet giant is just one of many tech firms propping up China’s totalitarian ways. By Peter Navarro November ...

Can independent journalism survive?
November 8, 2007, Comments Off on Can independent journalism survive?

ROME, Oct 29 (IPS) – Shrinking newsrooms, declining sales and audiences, vanishing foreign correspondents, concent ...

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