Fear at the Heart of a Sport for the Fit and Young
International Herald Tribune
Soccer players have dropped dead at an increasing rate in the era of advanced medical science, a fact that disturbs Michel d’Hooghe, a doctor who heads FIFA’s medical committee.
East India Company on sale via Steam for 60 percent off
Big Download Blog
Filed under: Downloads , Strategy As promised, Paradox Interactive has released East India Company: Privateer , the downloadable expansion pack for the recent historical strategy game from developer Nitro Games . Now the Steam download serv...
Paradox Interactive Unleashes East India Company: Privateer
GameZone
Today, Paradox Interactive has released East India Company: Privateer, an expansion for the popular naval strategy title, East India Company. The expansion introduces players to the nebulous world of the privateer, who forges alliances base...
Nigeria : The Paradox in the El-Rufa'i, Ribadu Saga
AllAfrica.com
Abuja — I have deep sympathy for the duo of Mallam Nasir El-Rufa'i and Mallam Nuhu Ribadu. Both are great Nigerians who did their best within the context of their situation and understanding, to make an impact on our polity.
Public option paradox
Economist.com
Have I seen twenty MSM articles on this theme in the last five days? Yet the betting odds are only slightly above their minimum point . Right now the contract is running at about twenty rather than eighteen or so a few days ago. Not long af...
Flu vaccine: A shortage that didn't have to be?
Scientific American
The shortage persists even as many people are avoiding the H1N1 vaccine, a paradox Scientific American predicted would occur in a Perspectives column: "there will be too little vaccine against the novel influenza (H1N1) strain to protect th...
OUR VIEW: Hate crime law isn't prevention
Colorado Springs Gazette
The paradox here is that the lengthy struggle to change Americans’ attitude toward homosexuality is ultimately more effective in reducing hate crimes than passing more laws. Culturally motivated crimes need to be fought through cultural eng...
Ellen Goodman: Feminism was a tool -- not a smiley face
Memphis Commercial Appeal
BOSTON -- Not long ago a group of writers decided to publish a book of essays we called: "Feminism Made Me Happy." It was an in-your-face title, a deliberate attempt to counter the narrative we all knew by heart. The one that kept describin...
View Point: Globalisation and Climate Change Paradox
Central Chronicle
The challenge of responding to security threats will be further heightened by emerging reality which is the 'changing climate', and its influence on geo-political, economic and internal security.
The Generosity Paradox
Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
Probably the kindest girl in my high school said to me once that she didn’t want a job where she would get rich because there are so many poor people in the world. I said that she should be rich and give the money to the poor people then. N...
'Moonlighting' Molecules Discovered
redOrbit
Johns Hopkins researchers uncover new kink in gene controlSince the completion of the human genome sequence, a question has baffled researchers studying gene control: How is it that humans, being far more complex than the lowly yeast, do no...
Early America: Protestantism & the West, Pt. 4
Examiner
The Calvinist Paradox of Distrust and Hope at the Constitutional Convention,” Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought, 2001 Modern detractors to Christianity are standing upon a legal foundation wrought in the refinery of the Reformation. T...
Fear at the Heart of a Sport for the Fit and Young
New York Times
Even for a physician, trained to cope with life and death, the paradox of a sportsman suffering heart failure is haunting. Subsequent tests on Rijnders, a Dutch international, showed a congenital heart defect. He never played again. He died...
