How could anti-U.S. sentiment be on the rise in China after the United States has done so much to help the country (sometimes unwittingly)? A clue: "An American college student in Beijing recently read a Chinese textbook stating that Martin Luther King Jr. never had the sympathy or help of white Americans, and that blacks in the south are hated by whites. 'It wasn't even entirely true in the 1950s civil rights movement period,' commented the student, who hails from Atlanta, Ga." The piece goes on to observe some liberalization of views (specifically the change from an outright damning perception of the Iraq intervention to a damning-with-faint-praise view), but China's rise in global power may have an accompanying rise in anti-American paranoia.
Airbus is bringing death-defying adventure back to transcontinental voyages!
Do you have low self-esteem? Maybe you're not so bad.
March of the Penguins has backing from the Religious Right. I wonder, do they know about penguin same-sex marriages in Bremen, or the divorced couple in New York City?
BBC states the obvious: People are booming in Gaza.
Dean's World states the obvious: "For a country that's on the verge of collapse, we seem to be doing pretty well."
Some folks think we would do better if we repealed the Seventeenth Amendment.
A comet started the Chicago Fire? That is unlikely.
On another spacey note, the 10th planet has a celestial companion.
Color perception.
Animal lovers should note that National Geographic is engaging in warthog profiteering.
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