Are News Magazines on the Decline?

Many industry insiders point to the internet as the reason behind all of this; the growth of online news has eroded some of magazines' reader and revenue bases. The public is moving towards the internet for their news.

Mexico - You've Got The Wrong Number

This conversation took place at 2:30 a.m. one night in the not-too-distance past in my home in Guanajuato, Mexico. To save time I have translated it into English.

Concentration Camps - A Brief History of Germanys Darkest Times

An overview of the horrifying concentration camps that took place in Germany during the Hitler era.

California Real Estate Sellers Spared By Governor Schwarzenegger

Sales of secondary residence under California law may pay a whopping 3 1/3% estimated tax of the gross sales price. Find out how California Assembly Bill AB 2962 allows a work-around.

Unleaded Gas Futures Poised To Set Record

Unleaded gas futures may be ready to set all time highs this year if supplies continue to lag behind demand and political conflicts with Iran escalate.

Chatting with Mao at Starbucks in the Forbidden City

What would Moa see that would surprise him, certainly a Starbucks at the top of the Forbidden City is going to give him a little gas, but what else? Do you think Chairman Mao would smile at all the healthy people in their Western clothes going about there day in a peaceful and orderly way? What would he think of the skyscrapers and the western style malls, with everyone having a cell phone attached to their ear? Do you think that if he walked around a bit saw the way that China is working today, that he would be agreeing with some of Friedman's theorys and try to leave it alone and let the yin and yang of the free market work themselves out?

Untapped - The Scramble For Africa's Oil

Since 1990 alone, the petroleum industry has invested more than $20 billion in exploration and production activity in Africa. A further $50 billion will be spent between now and the end of the decade, the largest investment in the continent's history - and around one-third of it will come from the United States. Three of the world's largest oil companies - the British-Dutch consortium Shell, France's Total, and America's Chevron - are spending 15 percent, 30 percent, and 35 percent respectively of their global exploration and production budgets in Africa. Chevron alone is in the process of rolling out $20 billion in African projects over a five-year period.

Society and Culture - The Informational Age

Information technologies demand strong ethics and morality from citizens of this new global empire

An Increasing Need for Nurses

The following article discusses the increasing need for nurses. Nurses serve as an integral part of the medical system and in years to come America will suffer a shortage of these professionals unless something is done to reverse the situation.

I Was Attacked By Predatory Packaging

Predatory packaging it's out there - and it's everywhere. It could be targeting you, your family, your loved ones. We have heard those terms bandied about, but just what exactly is predatory packaging? It seems everyone has a different perception what this means. Similar nomenclature could include the terms misleading or deceptive packaging or packaging that promises one thing and delivers another. But simply put it's when any group or person deems a package is using unsavory marketing/advertising practices to lure consumers to purchase their products - and it has been going on for a long time.

Senior Citizen Woman Columnist Told It Like It Was

Eighty-year-old Newspaper Woman's Weekly Columns Described Life and Events of the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century

Survivor, of Sorts

This week's events brought back some chilling memories for me-not something I wanted to be pulled out of the archives. Tragedy is scary, no matter who it hits or where they're from.

Dying Splendours of Kenya

A look at how the events of history have led to the eminent death of a beautiful land and how one must stop their heritage from being lost.