To Sri Lanka, which I feared would be like India and hoped would not. And my hopes have been fulfilled. Of course after barely two days it may be too soon to tell, but my feeling is that the people are a lot less fatalistic. There certainly are fewer of them.

I’m here to do some training, but that...

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Seems Silvio Berlusconi isn't the only head of state who likes a laugh, though as far as I know he doesn’t choose a State of the Republic address to clown around. From Neddie comes news that George W Bush was only kidding when he said that the US was going to reduce its dependence on Middle East...

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Eric Meyer reveals his “Sooper-Dooper No-Patent-Pending DIY Anti-Jet-Lag Technique”. Not a lot to it; arrange matters so that you get your customary amount of sleep and wake at the time you would normally wake shifted to your destination's time zone. But Eric refuses to use melatonin. Why, I won...

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“Britons unconvinced on evolution,” says BBC News. A survey says that 39% of Britons think (and I use the word advisedly) that creationism or intelligent design best describes the origin and development of life. (The survey separated them into two but I can’t see why.) OK, 48% like evolution theor...

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Africa Needs Bed Nets Not Advisers - UN Adviser
SENEGAL: January 25, 2006
DAKAR - Africa needs practical help such as medicine and fertilisers to beat poverty, not more advisers from rich nations, a top economist and UN adviser said on Tuesday.

Could PlanetArk have written the headline I q...

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