August

August 13, 2009

Obama Honours Tutu, Hawking, Poitier, Robinson

WASHINGTON ~ President Barack Obama conferred America’s highest civilian honour on 16 examples of unshakeable human spirit on Wednesday, including – Read More...
August 13, 2009

Walk on the Mild Side

By Elizabeth Henzell For The Bali Times UBUD ~ Have you been goosed? This is an expression I thought was – Read More...
August 13, 2009

On Being a Ginger Groupie

Our diarist Hec’s friend Vyt, who has a Bali blog and contributes The Vyt Line to The Bali Times, is – Read More...
August 13, 2009

Star Racehorse Finds Finish Line at Dinner Table

LIMA ~ It wasn’t a glue factory, but it was an untimely end for a star racehorse worth US$270,000: thieves – Read More...
August 13, 2009

Women Pickier than Men about One-night Stands

Women are far more choosy about casual sex than men, who don’t specially care whether a woman is moderately or – Read More...
August 13, 2009

In Science vs. Faith, the Need to Heed Darwin

By Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum This autumn, evolution-ary biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins – most recently famous for – Read More...
August 13, 2009

The Art of Kissing

By David Leonhardt Every now and then a quarrel breaks out down at the barber shop, lines are drawn, challenges – Read More...
August 13, 2009

Health Fears Raised over Common Bug Repellent

One of the world’s most common insect repellents acts on the central nervous system in the same way as some – Read More...
August 13, 2009

Many Britons Too Lazy to Change TV Channel: Poll

LONDON ~ Britons are so lazy that one in six cannot be bothered to change television channel if the remote – Read More...
August 13, 2009

Power-Hungry

The president announced last week that his government will spend the equivalent of US$6.1 billion on stimulus measures next year – Read More...