| China and USA in New Cold War over Africa’s Oil Riches
To paraphrase the famous quip during the 1992 US Presidential debates, when an unknown William Jefferson Clinton told then-President George Herbert Walker Bush, "It's the economy, stupid," the present concern of the current Washington Administration over Darfur in southern Sudan is not, if we were to look closely, genuine concern over genocide against the peoples in that poorest of poor part of a forsaken section of Africa. No. "It's the oil, stupid." Hereby hangs a tale of cynical dimension appropriate to a Washington Administration that has shown no regard for its own genocide in Iraq, when its control over major oil reserves is involved. What's at stake in the battle for Darfur? Control over oil, lots and lots of oil.
You are what you eat? Maybe
When I lived in Taiwan over 50 years ago, a young Chinese doctor asked if he could borrow the "V" volume of my World Book Encyclopedia. He was to address the local medical society on the subject of vitamins, and the encyclopedia was his source. In "The Hundred-Year Lie: How to Protect Yourself from the Chemicals that are Destroying Your Health," Randall Fitzgerald writes that the "traditional systems of medicine from India and China have developed over 4,000 years of knowledge based on trial-and-error testing of millions of people in the longest and most widespread clinical trial tests of plant based healing in human history." Fitzgerald, who has written investigative pieces for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, would have told my Chinese doctor friend that the natural vitamins dispensed by his ancestors were far more effective than the synthetic vitamins of modern times.
Ask her about law - or bobsledding
Until 1980, she taught grades 5 through 8 and an occasional summer class at American, and supervised student teachers in Bethesda, Md., her hometown. Then she and her husband, Harvey, decided to move to the Virgin Islands. The couple had vacationed there and bought property, so Harvey started his own construction company on St. Thomas. She helped develop math programs for schools on all three islands, which required her to take ferries, seaplanes and milk delivery trucks to work. While they were there, Harvey and their son, David, were inaugural members of the Virgin Islands' Olympic bobsled team. Joan served as a coach and trainer for their 1988 trip to the Calgary Olympics. She stayed in the Olympic village and met the members of Jamaica's first bobsled team, who inspired Disney's 1993 flick Cool Runnings.
Tropical tastes bloom in Toronto
Theresa Dyer, a part-time worker in a car parts factory, had no idea that she had a green thumb until she began volunteering in the Caribbean kitchen garden at Toronto Botanical Garden this spring. "I'm getting to know a part of myself I didn't realize even existed," says Dyer, who comes from Jamaica, lives in an apartment and has never gardened before. Working in the garden, she says, "gives me a burst of joy and I love it." Dyer is one of several volunteers from the city's ethnic communities helping Cathie Cox, horticulturist for the botanical gardens, to grow traditional herbs, fruits and vegetables. The goal is to feature a different culture each year. "As one of the most multicultural cities in the world, Toronto offers not only a rich mixture of languages and cultures, but myriad cuisines, as well," says Cox, who is fascinated by that varied offering of foods.
Moving Towards A Healthy Existence
When considering Chinese medicine most people in general think of a diversity of definitions and theories that are included in the practise. Nonetheless, when applied to healing and helping with ailments, Chinese medicine is not restricted by a particular group of principles or methods. Even so, there are some methods that are employed within the practice of Chinese medicine that may be dispensed in any field. In the course of it's thousands of years of evolution; Chinese medicine has included an expanding variety of procedures and ideologies that can help to fortify your fitness. Essentially, Chinese medicine is a philosophical route to a holistic lifestyle. The practise of Chinese medicine is equally concerned with the emotional and emotional in addition to the physical area of your health and bringing all three of these aspects to optimum levels results in complete fitness.
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