Word: know
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
According to a paper published Monday in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association, fewer than 8% of all Americans can now be considered at low risk for heart disease. No one needs a statistician's help to know that that means more than 92% of us are not as healthy as we could be, and that's worth paying attention...
...Brighter Future Your article "Joburg Gets It Together" tells South Africans more about the positive developments taking place in Soweto than our own media does [Aug. 24]. For some reason our society constantly and greedily demands to know about what is wrong, while disregarding or belittling everything that is positive. Our homemade prophets of doom shake their heads and try to convince us that we are heading for a failed and shameful 2010 World Cup. It is also true, though, that the new black élite, beneficiaries of the Black Economic Empowerment, have joined the white élite and have...
...year-old living in Germany, I know firsthand what it is like to grow up in a country shaped by past crimes. In Germany, it is hard to know where to draw the line between patriotism and extreme nationalism. Few of my generation dare to be proud of our country. Of course Germany under Hitler committed terrible crimes, and of course they should never be committed again, but how can the children of today be expected to live with the burden of these crimes committed 60 years ago? It is not that "younger Germans ... are less angst-ridden about their...
...Australia. On Sept. 9, Australia's Federal Police announced a war-crimes investigation into their deaths. Says Gary Cunningham's brother Greig: "We don't believe in the death penalty, but we want to see the people responsible face justice. They should be prosecuted on the evidence we now know." (Read "A Last Meeting with East Timor's Rebel Leader...
...Zealand governments. "They left us believing they were missing for days and days. It's been a continuous series of lies, and other inquiries were not given access to certain information," he says. And he's still not confident the latest inquiry will result in convictions. "We don't know if the suspects will ever be extradited, but a solution might be that they have international arrest warrants so they can't travel around the world, which they do with impunity," he says...