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Sunday, June 15, 2008 |
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Papa was a rolling stone
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Joey Pepe Smith, godfather of Pinoy rock, on
surviving his abusive alcoholic dad and being the father to five
children from three different mothers
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These are dysfunctional times. Today’s young
couples strive to be better parents by being nothing like their
fathers or their mothers. Work overseas sunders thousands of
families. Migration dislocates cultural identities. Yet countless
single parents raise exemplary children nonetheless.
The unattainable myth of the ideal Filipino
family—long kept artificially intact by church, family and society
through guilt and shame at the cost of unhappy spouses enduring
abuse, lies and lovelessness—no longer resonates with today’s
generation. Those whose stories now ring true are
antiheroes—unabashedly flawed and all-too-human. Welcome then for
Father’s Day the anti-dad—Joey Pepe Smith.
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O T H E R F E A T U R E S
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THE FILIPINO CHAMPION
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DOST supports victorious
scientist and inventor
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The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) supports Filipino
scientists and inventors whose achievements in all aspects of
innovation give honor to the Philippines. Alberto Robles and Yasmin
Espiritu are living legends who live their dream while helping the
society through science and technology.
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Multiple Intelligence High School: A school for
future responsible entrepreneurs
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When American psychologist Dr. Howard Gardner theorized that each
person has different areas of intelligence or expertise, it brought
one institution alive: Multiple Intelligence (MI) International
School.
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THE LITERARY LIFE
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The boy who loved
trees
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Last of three parts
Often from his window, before going to bed the
boy would play some lullaby’s on his flute for the little trees.
He could see the outline of the trees, swaying gently to his music
until they fell asleep.
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THE GREEN REVOLUTION
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A healthy ecology is good economics
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The Philippine environment, dubbed a mega
biodiversity country, is in danger as true as the saying goes. Our
country once blessed with an abundant, healthy environment and
balanced ecology is now in the threshold of an irreversible
ecological meltdown.
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