According to a petition being circulated on the activist site Care2.com, the world’s ocean liners and cruise ships contribute massively to pollution of not only our air but also our seas. The petition, “Tell […]
According to a petition being circulated on the activist site Care2.com, the world’s ocean liners and cruise ships contribute massively to pollution of not only our air but also our seas. The petition, “Tell […]
A new study sponsored by Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth […]
The Rolling Stones have today announced that they will play a two one-off shows in Germany in June. They will play Berlin’s Waldbühne on Tuesday 10 June and Düsseldorf’s Esprit Arena on […]
A palliative nurse recorded the most common regrets of the dying and put her findings into a book called ‘The Top Five Regrets of The Dying.’ It’s not surprising to see what […]
By Madeleine Gobeil Simone de Beauvoir had introduced me to Jean Genet and Jean-Paul Sartre, whom I had interviewed. But she hesitated about being interviewed herself: “Why should we talk about me? […]
A short documentary showing how thousands of Jewish refugees were saved through Japanese transit visas and gained their freedom with the help of JTB. Kiichirō Higuchi was a major general and the […]
Richard Branson left school at the age of 16 and set up Student Magazine with one of his friends. He went on to start Virgin Records in the 1970s and is the […]
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The parents of a Japanese girl who was abducted by North Korea more than three decades ago met their child’s daughter for the first time last week, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said on […]
In the wake of Lou Reed’s death last October at age 71, Thursday’s Bill Bentley-moderated panel offered a wide range of unique perspectives on a great American musical life. Veteran NYC rock […]