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Iraq and al-Qaeda not the same
Just goes to show that not everything that comes out of the White House and its intelligence agencies is gospel, and not everything that Arabs say is extremist, biased blind-talk. Some circles in the US talk of Iraq and al-Qaeda as bedmates. This article makes an argument otherwise.
And oh, it is actually carried by an Israeli news source...
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=1701
Posted by Fahd @ 12/16/2002 08:59 PM EST
A shelter for battered men
There is a shelter in Hong Kong for men who are subject to spousal abuse. No, I did not mix up my sexes; it indeed is for battered men, and there's a surprising number of them. Some of them "are in for" the Chinese tradition of keeping concubines, but most are there simply because they have lost earning power. Sad state of affairs...
Be forewarned: the article doesn't mention this till the end, but rate of women battery is ten times more, if the ratio of actual to reported cases is the same for both sexes:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2572985.stm
Posted by Fahd @ 12/14/2002 08:30 PM EST
Macs aren't necessarily better than PCs for multimediaFor a while I've been under the assumption that Macs, courtesy their RISC architecture and balanced components, are better at multimedia tasks than Wintel boxes. However, I was "disabused" of the idea by this series of articles comparing Dell workstations with the fastest Apple machines (dual-processor ones, thank you) on the market. The benchmarks are publically available Adobe Photoshop and After Effects tasks. The results are unambiguous. I do wish that the reviewers had talked to Apple as well as Dell about the reasons for the performance gaps and what they are doing to fix it, but Apple doesn't have the most courteous relationship with press that doesn't sing its praises 24/7... Anyways, here are the results. If anyone has benchmark results to the contrary, I'd be interested in knowing about them...
Isn't it time Tom's Hardware Guide did some of these too?
http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/2002/11_nov/reviews/cw_macvspciii.htm
Posted by Fahd @ 11/30/2002 08:08 PM EST
American Born Confused Desis
This is a frank essay on the problems faced by ABCDs, or American Born Confused Desis, in being accepted by their Eastern roots. While it deals with Indians specifically, it is relevant to all Pakistanis as well, perhaps more so, since religious taboos are much stronger on this side of the border.
http://www.indianest.com/teens/articles/00317.htm
Posted by Fahd @ 11/29/2002 05:37 PM EST
Teen Marriages up in the US
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/11/09/married.teens.ap/index.html
Point to note: "Figures released last year from the National Center for Health Statistics found nearly half of marriages in which the bride is 18 or younger end in separation or divorce within 10 years. For brides 25 and older, half a1s many marriages break up."
Posted by Fahd @ 11/09/2002 06:34 PM EST
Gay Sheep have Different Brain Structures
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It turns out that homosexual sheep have an enlarged section of their brains. They'd found similar enlargements in postmortem studies of deceased, AIDS-afflicted gay men, but there had been confounding factors (inlcuding treatment drugs etc.), so this is a more controlled experiment. They aren't making any claims about human sexuality yet, but this may turn out to be interesting. I wonder what the religious right will say if one day science conclusively proofs that most of homosexuality is nature, not nurture or choice. I guess they can always turn around and say that the same rule applies as to people with other disabilities; if you are born blind, you are judged with respect to that. :-/
Posted by Fahd @ 11/05/2002 11:11 PM EST
MSG causes Blindess!!!
Darn, Shaan has it :(
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992957
Posted by Fahd @ 10/26/2002 02:06 AM EST
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Posted by Fahd @ 10/23/2002 09:57 AM EST
http://health.discovery.com/news/afp/20021021/braincancer.html
I was pretty skeptical when I read the title. However, a careful reading of the article reveals that the person had no history of this problem, developed it suddenly, was "cured" when the tumor was removed, and when he exhibited similar symptoms again, the tumor was found to have regrown. There were other symptoms of his inhibitive neurolgoical symptoms being affected too. A doctor points out that this would not apply for a majority of pedophiliacs, since most of these offenders develop their habits at an early stage in life. But I am looking forward to the slow but sure development of the neurology of morality.
Posted by Fahd @ 10/22/2002 05:23 PM EST
http://www.theregus.com/content/55/26712.html
NIPC is National Infrastructure Protectrion Center
Posted by Fahd @ 10/21/2002 01:58 PM EST
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Living/ap20021021_879.html
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Posted by Fahd @ 10/06/2002 11:33 AM EST
This finding challenges the long-standing feminist belief that marriage makes men much happier but women more miserable.
http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonNews/es.es-10-05-0066.html
Posted by Fahd @ 10/05/2002 07:19 AM EST
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