Living in reverse is a double-edged sword. The order of balance is turned on its head when day becomes night and night becomes day. However, the very same silence that permeates the afterdark and liberates the mind also serves to exacerbate any form of negative emotion. The onslaught is swift and ferocious; the assailant remorseless for it knows ( Read more... )

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Adam Duritz could not have put it more aptly. It really has been A Long December. Within the past month, a series of unfortunate events, such as the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto have transpired, seemingly in an attempt to sour the year end festivities. And with the impending threat of global warming, the weather, ( Read more... )

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Monday, December 17, 2007
Argentina end year top of FIFA rankings
ZURICH, Switzerland, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Argentina will end 2007 as the world's best-ranked team, following the publication of the latest FIFA standings for December.

With few international matches being played in the past month, the rankings have seen little change since November with ( Read more... )

"When a society is rich, its people don't need to work with their hands; they can devote themselves to activities of the spirit. We have more and more universities and more and more students. If students are going to earn degrees, they've got to come up with dissertation topics. And since dissertations can be written about everything under the sun ( Read more... )

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can never compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

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