OBRA MAESTRA

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 who wound up a mutant of fame. That’s not who I will remember, however. His mixture [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The first of Buddha’s Four Noble Truths:
“Life is Difficulty”

Einstein sought in science what artists seek in art.
Einstein attempted to escape from the gloominess and terrors of society by connecting with the whole universe.
Einstein wanted sense and beauty in the physical world.
“God does not play dice with the Universe.”
He hoped to find a hidden [...]

I am extending to you my reader this timeless message…
Jan 1st. 2008
From my Friend: Linda Forsythe from Mentors Magazine

“The following was written by my friend Susie and I’d like to pass this gift on to you, because you are living a life that matters…
What Will Matter
Ready or not, some day it will all come [...]

Paul Polak is the founder of the Colorado-based non-profit International Development Enterprises (IDE) which is dedicated to developing practical solutions that harness the power of markets and attack poverty at its roots.
Polak was born in the Czech Republic and raised in Canada.
As a twelve year old in Canada, Polak learned that he [...]