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Early Wednesday morning, the children of Musmos Daycare Center, in Manila's Tondo slum, were supposed to be headed on an excursion to the nearby resort town of Tagaytay. Instead they spent the day parked in their school bus near Manila's city hall - hostages in a nationally televised, eight-and-a-half-hour standoff between their daycare center's owner and Manila police...
...what sounds like screams and gunshots at VIL UYANA, there's no need to panic. The screams are just the local farmers warning each other of elephants, and the gunshots are in fact firecrackers used to scare them away. But what you mostly hear at this stunning new eco-resort in Sri Lanka's dry zone is silence, punctuated only by the calling of kingfishers and the cooing of spotted doves. There are 426 bird species in Sri Lanka, and many of them can be seen here, in this extraordinary nature reserve that also doubles as a superchic hotel...
...Tamiflu to the deaths, there is growing concern among doctors and parents in Japan over the drug's possible side effects. That is potential cause for concern in the rest of the world, because in the absence of a vaccine, Tamiflu will be the drug of first and last resort in the event of a pandemic...
...compassionate reason is the message that pro-lifers ought to present. With more than enough scientific, judicial, and economic arguments against the prevalence of abortion in this country, it is not necessary to resort to spirituality. And with a willingness to listen to the arguments of the most thoughtful pro-choicers, it is clear that their views stem from a concern for the well-being of women and children and an aversion to perpetuating poverty. Character judgments are unwarranted and futile...
...years in the spotlight of women’s hockey—four at Harvard and two with the U.S. Olympic Team—and Julie Chu is still finding new ways to distinguish herself.During a brunch ceremony at the Hilton Lake Placid Resort in Lake Placid, N.Y, site of the 2007 NCAA Women’s Frozen Four, the USA Hockey Foundation selected Chu as the recipient of this year’s Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, given to the top player in the college game.“In my 13 years of coaching at Harvard...