Archive for the 'News' Category

You can’t eat economics

April 20, 2008

Two separate news stories: the first from the Guardian. Apparently, the food crisis is ‘just a bubble’ and not the end of the world. Give it two years, and prices will return to normal.
“I see so much focus on food, and it seems to be so trendy in the investment world,’ O’Neill told The Observer. [...]

Welcome home gifts

August 31, 2006

“What’s shocking - and I would say to me completely immoral - is that 90% of the cluster bomb strikes occurred in the last 72 hours of the conflict, when we knew there would be a resolution,” Mr Egeland said. “Every day people are maimed, wounded and are killed by these ordnance.”
The Guardian on Israel’s [...]

Now departing: Orion

August 29, 2006

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5277736.stm
“US space agency Nasa has named its new manned exploration craft Orion.
The vehicle is being developed to take human space explorers back to the Moon and potentially then on to Mars.
It is hoped the name Orion could eventually mean as much for manned space exploration as Apollo did in the 1960s and 1970s.
Its first manned [...]