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News and Society
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Confessions Of An X-Medical Resident
Why medical residency training is one of the most difficult things any one can go through. The facts and the horrors we go through to become Doctors.
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Ace E-Manifest System - Trucks From Mexico
The new Ace E-Manifest System is now in place and this means that all Mexican trucks coming over our border will be digitally recorded and they will be forced to use the electronic manifest system. This is the latest of several new systems being put in place to protect our Homeland. Of course one has to ask if it will work? Of course I'm sure it will take a little while to get the bugs out and handle the flow.
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The Days Are Coming Closure
Soon the couple announced their engagement, the question often arises that when the marriage is going to be held. It is to be held on 20th of April this month. Hence, there is hardly a week to go.
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Aftermath of the Virginia Tech Shootings - Spotlight Campus Mental Health
If regular, open and candid discussions about mental health were going on in living rooms, schools and boardrooms across the country- if people recognized the urgency in and were just as comfortable with seeking professional help for depression, anxiety, stress and rage as they were for things like diabetes, heart disease and cancer, perhaps tragedies like the one that occurred on the Virginia Tech Campus could be averted in the future.
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Two Ways Our Newspapers Are Committing Suicide
Newspapers pursue political agenda instead of truth or profit. A second problem is that the media unthinkingly support an educational establishment that is busy dumbing down its students, thereby diminishing the number of people who will buy and read newspapers.
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Imus Laugh or Not?
Was the national outrage because Imus was a newscaster with some political clout and high powered guests? Or was he a comedian who exposed his white boy attitude.
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Untapped - The Scramble For Africa's Oil
Since 1990 alone, the petroleum industry has invested more than $20 billion in exploration and production activity in Africa. A further $50 billion will be spent between now and the end of the decade, the largest investment in the continent's history - and around one-third of it will come from the United States. Three of the world's largest oil companies - the British-Dutch consortium Shell, France's Total, and America's Chevron - are spending 15 percent, 30 percent, and 35 percent respectively of their global exploration and production budgets in Africa. Chevron alone is in the process of rolling out $20 billion in African projects over a five-year period.
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The Future Of War
Will we continue fighting wars forever? Will we destroy ourselves or is there hope for the future? I contend that military action against other nations will increasingly become a less effective method to resolve conflicts.
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Taking the Neighbor Out of Neighborhoods
Having just recently returned to my childhood neighborhood in Baltimore, I couldn't help but notice how much things have changed since I left. Growing up in the early 60's, I recall a much different neighborhood. Back then, much of Baltimore consisted of poor working class neighborhoods that were self contained units...
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