| Symposium: Russia's "Higher Values"
As Russia's March 2 presidential election approaches, the tyrannical structures of Russian institutions become increasingly transparent. President Vladimir Putin's chosen successor, Dmitry Medvedev, is expected to win the election by a landslide – seeing that all opposition has been stifled through various despotic methods employed by the Putin regime. Former chess champion and leading opposition figure Garry Kasparov was forced to curtail his effort to run for President. Former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky and former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, meanwhile, have both been barred from participating. These developments illustrate, among other things, the problem of human rights in Russia. But the country's leading church and state officials habitually state that there are “higher values" than human rights.
Hair Stylists Promote Breast Cancer Prevention Messages To Clients
Authors of a Brooklyn, N.Y., study say hair stylists might be a good resource for both healthy hair and information on breast cancer prevention. However, it is not clear if learning about breast health practices at the beauty shop has a significant effect on client's health behavior.
Hair stylists "are an institutionalized resource in the community and we consider them leaders in an environment that a lot of people come through," said Dr. Ruth Browne, principle investigator of the new study.
Women in the African-American community often have a regular source of hair care, but might not have a similar resource for health information, said Browne, head of the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health in Brooklyn.
As part of the study, 29 stylists from three Brooklyn neighborhoods participated in two two-hour workshops to learn about encouraging clients to practice three breast health behaviors: conducting monthly breast self-examinations, getting annual clinical breast exams from a health care professional and for women 40 years and older undergoing routine mammography.
Timber Industry 1991-2000
The 87% of the shares belonging to the American investors were returned to the Ministry of Property of Leningrad region.
In February, GKI tried to start a new wave of privatization in the timber industry, further undermining the position of Roslesprom, which managed, but did not own, the country's largest logging enterprises. OAO Severoleseksport was put up for sale.
In early April, Roslesprom blocked the sale of Severoleseksport, which was under its control; instead of privatization, it proposed to create the Severoles financial and industrial group, which was supposed to include the Northern Cellulose holding, the Archangelsk Pulp and Paper Combine, the state companies Konoshales and Severoles, the Onega Lumber Combine, a number of lumber mills, Lesobank (Arkhangelsk), and the Timber Leasing company.
Christmas gift in June
The design features a report from Santa Claus and an elf-watch stamp. Designer Jim Dudley said he wanted to capture the zaniness of his sister's children.A holiday card designed for a laugh won a top national award. By Christina Rogers
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Death Valley: Scotty's Castle built with lots of snake oil
Everybody loves an eccentric, especially when the eccentric was rich enough to live a life of comfortable derring-do. Walter Scott and Albert Johnson were just such men. Scott, a former stunt rider in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, was, by all accounts, a charismatic alpha dog of a character, a teller of tall tales and a gold digger, if not in the literal sense. Folklore has it that, in the first decade of the 20th century, the man swaggered around the country using his entertainment skills to fleece investors in a nonexistent Death Valley gold mine. Who could resist a guy who carried huge wads of cash, produced thumb-size gold nuggets from his pocket and lit his cigars with $100 bills? .
Junk Science: Mayor Gloomberg
After speaking at a United Nations meeting on global warming, Bloomberg told reporters, "Terrorists kill people. Weapons of mass destruction have the potential to kill an enormous amount of people, but global warming in the long term has the potential to kill everybody." He continued, "We should go after terrorists every place in this world, find them and kill them, plain and simple. [If weapons of mass destruction] get out of the hands of the countries that have them and get into the hands of terrorists, the potential is just mind-boggling … [and while global warming] is a much longer-term thing … [it] has all of the same potentials of destroying the planet that we live on. "No scientist knows for sure what's going to happen, but you don't want to wait to find out." While we easily could write-off Bloomberg's comments as simply inane hyperbole, they're really quite irresponsible for a public official to make as they're not based on any sort of scientific reality — even in the weird reference frame of standard climate hysteria.
Good Question: What's Going To Happen To 401(k)s?
When it comes to my 401(k), give me three things I should be thinking about today," asked WCCO-TV's Dennis Douda. "Long term ... diversification ... pro-active management," said Helmer. Being diversified is about balancing the biggest potential payoffs with the amount of risk people can afford to take. "A good portfolio should have stocks and other non-stock investments, like bonds and real estate. But, within stocks there's many sub-categories," said Helmer. In general, the older we are, the less we should be invested in riskier stocks. "Right now we're going through a period of time where people are trepidatious, very nervous but I think it's going to be short-lived," said Helmer. Helmer thinks the nation is definitely entering a recession but because 401(k)'s can buy stocks at a discount, he says it's still a good time to build retirement funds.
Kirsten Dunst
Unless someone drove her and she spent the whole trip downing booze like a convict on death row. In which case, I only have one thing to say to that: Kirsten Dunst, will you marry me? Obviously not in a church. I know how holy water burns your vampire skin. See, baby, I notice the little things. .
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