Contact with outsiders has historically been disastrous for Peru's Indians. More than half of the Murunahua tribe died of colds and other illnesses after they were contacted by development workers for the first time in 1996.
(Reuters) -- The Dalai Lama may be the guest of honor of President George W. Bush, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other world leaders, but you won't find Tibet's exiled spiritual leader on the Beijing Olympics guest list.
How will the 10 innocent animal right activists dream in Vienna being sepperated from their loved ones...and being unable to fight for the animals?
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/8/freedom-for-the-a ustrian-activists
Enjoy this Andre Rieux video!
Buried inside an Associated Press story in our paper today on the huge war funding bill that President Bush today signed into law Monday is a sentence on a subject I've been watching and writing about over the last year: A provision that boosts college
LAND O' LAKES - A substitute teacher who said he lost his job because of claims that he was practicing wizardry plans to file a lawsuit against the Pasco County School Board.The school district received notice Monday of Jim Piculas' plan to file the laws
Why does it seem that every time the price of gas goes up, motorists respond by driving faster? Is it some misguided belief that if they reach their destination quicker, they will use less gas?
Stand-up comedian George Carlin, whose routine about forbidden words on the airwaves led to a key Supreme Court decision on government broadcast oversight, died of heart failure near Los Angeles.
U.N. meausres and articles based on the Abolition of Modern Day Slavery. What they are trying to do, how you can become involved. As the saying goes, If not now, WHEN ?
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/end-slavery-in- 3rd-world-countries
Summertime for kids should be about adventure and enjoyment. If you asked most children, summer is probably their favorite time of the year.
Unfortunately, that is not the world we live in anymore.
"School defends action against sixteen year old." - this is the worst case of child abuse/endangering that I've ever seen and it was all done at school! What a disgrace!
As hopes for the first female president faded Wednesday, at least two of Hillary Clinton's four Alaska delegates said they think the former first lady should vie for the vice presidency.
Amish farmer Andy Swartzentruber is determined to live the simple life of his forefathers, plowing his field with a horse-drawn tractor, getting around in a horse-drawn buggy and offering eggs for sale to help support his family.
HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) -- A 78-year-old man is tossed like a rag doll by a hit-and-run driver and lies motionless on a busy city street as car after car goes by. Pedestrians gawk but appear to do nothing. One driver stops briefly but then pulls back i
Carol Race thinks it's important for her 13-year-old son to be in church on Sundays for Catholic Mass. Gee what did Jesus say about children? Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me
