Month: July 2005

Cross-Posted at My Left Wing China announced it will remove the Yuan’s Peg.  This is a surprise move that caught everyone off-guard.  “Under the new exchange rate mechanism, one dollar is valued at 8.11...

It’s a short one this week. This is the weekly summary of the Humanist Network News (HNN). The Humanist Network News (HNN) is published every Wednesday via e-mail and the Institute for Humanist Studies (IHS) Web site. This...

By an object’s absence, I think you can gain some clarity about the nature of the object itself.  Here on Day 4, I am beginning to see some things clearly about Internet news in general (and blogging on BMT and dKos...

[From the diaries by susanhu]BREAKING NEWS: 3 incidents on London subway + double-decker bus Yahoo News ~~~ London Bombing Diaries @ EuroTrib ~~~

It just so happens that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died within hours of each other on July 4, 1826, which just happened to be Independence Day.  It also just happened to be the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of...