by Megan Tady, Dec. 7, 2006 https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3956In March 2006, the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago released a study that compared the differences in greenhouse-gas emissions caused by various plant- and meat-based diets. Researchers found that the difference between a red-meat diet and a vegan diet – in … [Read more...] about Meat Contributes to Climate Change, UN Study Confirms
Bewitched by the Veil
by Dorothy Rowe, October 18, 2006 https://dorothyrowe.com.au/index.php?u=Bewitched_by_the_Veil.htm2[The niqab is] a mark of separation and that is why it makes other people from outside the community feel uncomfortable.’ Tony Blair’s answer to a journalist’s question October 17, 2006....I don’t recall Tony Blair ever expressing publicly any disquiet about the way the … [Read more...] about Bewitched by the Veil
Bigger Breasts and Suicide
by Dorothy Rowe, October 20, 2006 https://dorothyrowe.com.au/index.php?u=Bigger_Breasts_and_Suicide.htmPeople seem puzzled by suicide in women with breast implants, but I wouldn’t be surprised if BDD [Body Dysmorphic Disorder] was behind it,’ says Katherine Phillips, a psychiatrist at Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island. New Scientist, October 21, 2006 ...New … [Read more...] about Bigger Breasts and Suicide
The Case for Japanese Constitutional Revision Assessed
Japan's Political and Constitutional CrossroadsBy John Junkerman, Gavan McCormack, and David McNeillJapan is at a constitutional—and political—crossroads. In the wake of dispatch of GSDF forces to Iraq and the MSDF fleet to the Persian Gulf, the pacifist constitution faces the possibility of revision for the first time since its adoption during the postwar occupation sixty … [Read more...] about The Case for Japanese Constitutional Revision Assessed
Becoming an Ugly and Dangerous Nation!
By Nikkan GendaiTranslated by Nobuko Adachi https://japanfocus.org/products/details/2293[The following article presents a critical responses to the proposed changes in national educational policy by Japan’s new prime minister, Abe Shinzo. It is one of many appearing in Japanese newspapers and magazines in the past six weeks. The centerpiece of the Abe administration’s … [Read more...] about Becoming an Ugly and Dangerous Nation!