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Sunday, October 12, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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The Nobel Prize |
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The Nobel Prize has not excited Filipinos partly
because no Pinoy has won one and partly because many of the
subjects, such as those in the sciences, are considered esoteric by
many competition watchers. There have also been very few nominations
for the prestigious prize in numerous categories.
We do not have high expectations
for our few but talented scientists and researchers but why can’t
we win, Filipinos themselves, ask in the field of literature, for
example? Readers of F. Sionil Jose assert he has produced a body of
work that could compare with Asia’s best. A posthumous prize for
the great National Artist, journalist and fiction winner Nick
Joaquin, should be forthcoming, say lovers of literature.
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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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The ghost at CERN
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THE shade of John Archibald
Wheeler, who died on April 13, 2008, aged 96, may have hovered over
the inaugural run of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva,
Switzerland on September 10.
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SUNDAY STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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The old moorings
have drifted away
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It was not really hard voting
against the ratification of the Japan—Philippines Economic
Partnership Agreement or JPEPA.
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REFLECTIONS
By Fr. Shay Cullen
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The face of
poverty
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I can never forget the sick,
malnourished and dead babies that I found in the slums of Manila,
Olongapo City and elsewhere in the Philippines in recent months
since the global financial crisis began.
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DURIAN
By Amina Rasul
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Global Financial
Meltdown
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How is the Philippines reacting
to the global economic crisis? According to Romy Bernardo and
Global Sources, “the Philippine monetary authorities will likely
hold policy rates to keep the local financial system liquid...
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ONE MAN’S MEAT
By Benjamin G. Defensor
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Scandals abroad
trump domestic politics
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DOMESTIC politics threatened to
take over media but humanitarian efforts and financial activism
abroad staunched the move to bring in 2010 ahead of time.
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Some facts about
birth control
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Human sexual appetite is so
strong that it’s not realistic to rely on personal discipline or
religious belief. Priests and nuns who are supposed to be models of
chastity have been known to succumb to the lure of sex.
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LETTER
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Entertaining traffic cop performances
The Heads Up column by Joel
Palacios on Friday October 10 reminded me of the policeman, Mr.
Valentine Santiago, who studied law at the Far Eastern University.
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