Once again we hear that doomsday is just around the corner and that radical measures are needed to protect the world’s resources.
It’s geting worse all the time, they say.
I say:
…I’m doing the best that I can.
I admit it’s getting better
A little better all the time
Yes I admit it’s getting better…
What’s funny is that, Dr. […]

After eight months in a detention camp in Japan (since July 13), a bearded Bobby Fisher left the detention centre to board a plane to Iceland. Fisher is fighting a deportation order to the U.S., after violating sanctions imposed on former Yugoslavia by playing there against Boris Spassky in 1992.
CBC News Reports:
Bobby Fischer leaves Japan […]

“On March 29, the entertainment and technology industries will descend upon Washington, D.C. to argue their respective sides before the Supreme Court in the landmark case of MGM v Grokster”, as MIT Technology Review reports.
It is a battle between the entertainment industry, that is trying to increase its revenues by fighting file-sharing, and the technology […]

100 years after her birthday, Reason magazine remembers on e of the most controversial women of the 20th century. Rand was an American immigrant from the Soviet Union; she left her family behind to escape to the U.S. (1926) where she founded and led the objectivist movement, advocating individualism, reason and capitalism for the […]

Bruce Springsteen and the Dave Matthews Band will release their new albums in Dual Disc format. Will this medium become the next trend in music? To be honest, I do not really mind. I am just excited that the Boss and the DMB have new music that is coming out in the next few months.
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MOSCOW, March 11 — Garry Kasparov, the brilliant and aggressive tactician regarded by many as the greatest chess player of all time, has announced his retirement from professional play.
Chess Genius Kasparov Retires (washingtonpost.com)

Ernst Mayr, the Harvard University evolutionary biologist who has been called “the Darwin of the 20th century,” died last month (Feb. 3) at a retirement community in Bedford, Mass. A member of the Harvard faculty for more than half a century, he was 100.

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument on two Ten Commandments cases, as CNN reports. Each raises the question whether a state’s public display of the Ten Command- ments violates the Establishment Clause, by communicating a state endorsement of religion.
The U.S. Constitution clearly states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of […]