BLIMEY, there’s a real cold snap at the moment and news has just come through of flooding and possible typhoons. But there’s loads of rugby on, some comfort food in the larder and I’m going to recommend some cosy reds, so let’s all cwtch in. Full Article at Wales Online
SLAM 4: Ben Wilson’s life may have ended at 17, but his legacy as Chicago’s last best hope lives on. Today marks the 25th year since Ben Wilson’s tragic death. Full Article at SLAM Online
The ended Wednesday in Rome with Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) head Jacques Diouf calling for the global community to shift the fight against global hunger from "words to action," Agence France-Press reports. Full Article at News-Medical.net
* Italy's Berlusconi only G8 leader at summit * Final Declaration dilutes aid, hunger targets * Gaddafi grabs most headlines with Islamic conversion bid ROME, Nov 18 (Reuters) - An absence of many world leaders undermined this week's U.N. food... Full Article at Reuters Alert Net
"For too long, global health funding has gone to diseases like AIDS with the most vocal lobby groups and not to the diseases with the greatest need," Philip Stevens, a senior fellow at International Policy Network, writes in a Business Daily opinion... Full Article at Medical News Today
kick out of it," he told me. "In a small plane, you get to experience that third dimension. The groundbound live a two-dimensional life." Full Article at Denver Post
One of the debating techniques commonly employed by the Left is to take a worthwhile principle and exaggerate it or invert it to create absurd distortions of moral arguments and force its opponents into a swamp of rhetorical excess, false analogies,... Full Article at Gates of Vienna
stupid europeans always getting free stuff while us Americans have to sit out on the sidelines wanting just a taste of their glory. Full Article at Destructoid
In the six decades since the government began compiling such data, the highest level of unemployment came at the end of 1982, when it hit 10.8 percent. Full Article at Gainesville Sun
Hungry for literature? The full flavor of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society comes through over bangers and mash. Water for Elephants calls for hot dogs, popcorn and candied apples. Full Article at Miami Herald