Random links
- How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor
- Current approaches tend to boost the prices of food: "Filling the 25-gallon tank of an SUV with pure ethanol requires over 450 pounds of corn -- which contains enough calories to feed one person for a year."
- Former NHS director dies after operation is cancelled four times at her own hospital
- Seems to suggest that Britain has less queue-jumping taking place than you might see in the Canadian system.
- Pakistani case shows limits of women’s rights
- Quotes that speak of how terrible it was that there were "officials who doubted her story" or that "the judges referred often to the 'presumed innocence' of the defendants." Isn't presumed innocence more or less supposed to be at the base of the Western legal system? (This compilation of studies suggests a false report rate of between 1.5 - 90%, with most estimates placing false reports at a higher level than has typically been estimated for other crimes).
- Pork that ‘glows,’ beans with cancer chems among China’s latest poison foods
- "pork found on the market so loaded with bacteria that it glowed in the dark" - as delicious as bacon is, I'd prefer if mine didn't glow in the dark.