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This is an interesting program on tech that is on BBC World. Here is the website with interesting links etc.

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The snowmobile was chained to the front porch of the house, but that didn’t stop a thief in eastern Ontario early Friday morning.

Read the rest on CBC’s web site.

‘If I was advising someone to chain or cable their snowmobile to something, I would suggest something immovable like a tree or something that’s not going to be able to be dragged away.’— Ontario Provincial Police Const. Dana Mellon

At least we don’t have to worry about this in Kuwait! And at least the Canadian police give good advice.

Even in Kuwait the Shias get a hard time. And in Iraq it is much worse, but it isn’t religion, it’s about the opressed and the opressors.

…For those who follow Iraq from afar, the daily stories of sectarian slaughter are perplexing. Why are the Shi’ites and Sunnis fighting? Why now? There are several explanations for the timing of the outbreak of hostilities, each tied to a particular interpretation of how events unfolded after the fall of Saddam Hussein: flawed American postwar policies, provocation by foreign jihadis, retaliation by militias like al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army, the ineptitude of Iraqi politicians and, lately, Iranian interference. But the rage burning in people like Muslawi and Hussein has much deeper and older roots. It is the product of centuries of social, political and economic inequality, imposed by repression and prejudice and frequently reinforced by bloodshed. The hatred is not principally about religion.…

Read the full story here:
Behind the Sunni-Shi’ite Divide — Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007 — Page 1 — TIME

Kevin, M.D. – Medical Weblog: The curse of praise#comments#comments

We all know this but read the comments:

… People worry too much about their children. I never ever recommend child-rearing literature to my patients, advising them instead to call their grandmothers.

# posted by Anonymous : 7:28 PM

The problem of course, is that after another generation of “self-esteemism” those grandmothers will be idiots as well.

# posted by Anonymous : 2:31 PM

Seven days a week, 8-year-old Jasmina Khatoom rises before dawn to fetch water for the household where she works as a maid. She washes, sweeps and hauls until about 11 at night, when she lies down to sleep on the floor by the bathroom door.

I saw this article in the International Herald Tribune and was disgusted.

And also from The J-Walk Blog: Unwanted Girls

The Indian government is planning to set up a strategically placed network of cradles around the country where parents who don’t want their baby girls can leave them

Makes me sick.

Philips Wake-Up Light Alarm Clock: Fade Up to Harsh Reality – Gizmodo