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Sunday, June 29, 2008 |
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EDITORIALS
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Miriam joins endorsers
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“I pray some crazy companies will risk losing some money on
certain products and get her [Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago] as
endorser so she would stop sourgraping about our ads.”
—Sen. Panfilo Lacson, quoted in The Manila Standard
SEN. Miriam Defensor-Santiago, who has been
feuding with several colleagues for endorsing commercial products
and engaging in “premature politics,” has decided to promote
several educational institutions, a Senate insider said.
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O T H E R C O L U M N S A
N D F E A T U R E S
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CENTER
OF GRAVITY
By Rony V. Diaz
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Automated elections
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THE late Neptali Gonzales was deeply suspicious of voting machines.
When shown a computer that could record, count, and transmit the
results of the vote in hours rather than days or weeks, Gonzales
looked the vendor in the eye and asked in his best Presbyterian
manner: “How do we know that what it will record, count, and
transmit are those that the voter chose?”
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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Toothless inquiries
and crap insurance
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From time immemorial, the Board of Marine Inquiry (BMI),
Philippine-version, has been identified with two things. It is
either a fangless tiger or a board that almost always tilts to the
side of a negligent shipowner.
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ONE
MAN’S MEAT
By Benjamin G. Defensor
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A new printing,
photographic technology
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KODAK of the United States and Fuji of Japan are just two of the
international photography organizations that have survived digital
technology. Digital technology made film photography obsolete.
Digital cameras are built in in most cellular phones today.
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REFLECTIONS
By Fr. Shay Cullen
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Coal-fired power plant a grave threat
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The forests of Southeast Asia are under intense deforestation and
recently we heard the dire warnings that the world is presently
losing 13 million hectares of forest every year. That means less
oxygen and more carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.
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GROUND
LEVEL
By Godofredo M. Roperos
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A city still without
taxicabs
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SOME four decades after our first visit to Palawan, we were able to
revisit it the other week, right in the midst of Typhoon Frank, that
had us stranded there for a day.
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FEATURE
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Mumbai’s trains claim a dozen daily
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MUMBAI: Every morning college student Siddhi
Sarangdhar squeezes herself onto a Mumbai train and hopes she will
survive the journey to school on the world’s busiest—and
deadliest—rail network.
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