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A Tribute to My Friend, Michael Jackson by Dr. Deepak Chopra (En Français plus bas, dedicated to “a loving soul” Grace) Michael Jackson will be remembered, most likely, as a shattered icon, a pop genius [...]

Excerpts from
The Mind in the Making by
James Harvey Robinson (June 29, 1863–February 16, 1936) was an American historian.
Robinson was born Bloomington, Illinois. He taught history at the University of Pennsylvania (1891–95) and Columbia University (1895–1919), becoming a full professor in 1895.
In 1919, he was one of the founders of the New School for Social [...]

In the decade of Darfur and Iraq, and shortly after the century of Stalin, Hitler, and Mao, the claim that violence has been diminishing may seem somewhere between hallucinatory and obscene. Yet recent studies that seek to quantify the historical ebb and flow of violence point to exactly that conclusion.
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
by Steven Pinker
Introduction
Once [...]

His Royal Highness Prince Hassan Bin Talal about a new global Mega Project:

“More than 40 years ago the Apollo Space Program was launched to fulfill the
old dream of taking man into outer space. Today, we have a bigger dream, to
restore balance between man and his home planet, Earth. With the political
will, EUMENA countries could now [...]

Public Health Advisory: Mobile Phone-Brain Tumour
Vini G. Khurana, MBBS, BSc(Med), PhD, FRACS
Key messages of this work:
http://www.brain-surgery.us/about_the_author.html
http://www.brain-surgery.us/mobilephone.html
* Mobile phones are convenient and frequently invaluable, yet exposure to their electromagnetic radiation is invisible. Therefore, any danger this exposure poses may be easily dismissed.
* Exposure is long-term and its effects on the body, particularly its electrical organ, [...]

Get Down to Business
Original date of publication (French) June 3d 2009 7:21 | by
JACQUES ATTALI

Contrary to what they want us to
believe, the crisis deepens: in the United
States, all deficits are rising; banks defaulting are worsening, and even if
Wall Street is up, its value is still 40% lower than that of October 2007.
In addition,everyone [...]

A Message to Garcia
is an inspirational essay written by Elbert Hubbard that has been made into two motion pictures.
It was originally published as a filler without a title in the March, 1899 issue of the Philistine magazine which he edited, but was quickly reprinted as a pamphlet and a book.
It was wildly popular, selling over [...]

Discours de Jacques Chirac
L’Eau pour la Paix –
la Paix pour l’Eau
Summary in French
By Joel Bomane’s
Earth Nest Group
http://www.fondationchirac.eu/eau-pour-paix-13-novembre/
L’eau pour la Paix – La Paix pour l’eau from Fondation Chirac on Vimeo
(Crédit : NEWSPRODMedia Manser)
DROIT UNIVERSEL A [...]

© CNN -December 27, 2007 -(AP)
– The message flickered into Cindy Fleenor’s living room each night: Be faithful in how you live and how you give, the television preachers said, and God will shower you with material riches.
And so the 53-year-old accountant from the Tampa, Florida, area pledged $500 a year to Joyce [...]

By Lee Iacocca
November 2007
with Catherine Whitney.
I Had Enough?
Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening?
Where the hell is our outrage?
We should be screaming bloody murder.
We’ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing [...]