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Thursday, February 19, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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Dying while waiting
for heart surgery
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Amedical institution that has
established a well-earned reputation for being a seat of surgical
wonders in the field of heart surgery is the Philippine Heart Center
(PHC) on East Avenue, Quezon City.
Inaugurated on February 14, 1975,
with the world-famous pioneer heart-transplant surgeon, Dr.
Christiaan Bernard, as special guest, the PHC has been catering not
only to Filipino cardio-vascular patients but also to those from the
Asia-Pacific Region who look to the Center as the “wellspring of a
healthier and longer life.”
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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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FROM
THE SIDELINES
By Alfredo G. Rosario
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Exercise caution
on VFA
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Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro has given one of
the most prudent remarks on the hot issue of the Visiting Forces
Agreement (VFA), which is now being raked over by members of the
Senate as a result of the failure...
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HERE
I STAND
By Geronimo L. Sy
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Pre-crime
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Remember the movie Minority Report staring Tom Cruise
circa 2002? The non-word “pre-crime” was introduced to our
imagination as a world where law enforcers could actually see that a
crime is about to be committed...
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MEN
& EVENTS
By Alito L. Malinao
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‘Hate letter a
hoax’–real Art Bell
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Mr. Art Bell, a Nevada-based radio talk show host,
strongly took exception to our column on Tuesday (February 17, 2009)
entitled “The Ugly American.”
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OPEN
NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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Internet jitters
for Asian bosses
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THE internet is in this day and age such an integral
part of our lives that, like it or not, we are all netizens now.
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PROMETHEUS
BOUND
By Ricardo Bahague Jr.
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Facebook activism
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In the ongoing campaign against the reopening of the
Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) in Morong, the Network Opposed to
the BNPP Revival (NO to BNPP Revival) asked our group to create a
website for them to host news...
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DEVELOPMENT
DIALOGUE
By Nora O. Gamolo
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Retrieving
history
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Filipinos will soon commemorate and relive the EDSA
People Power Revolution of 1986 when they defied a dictator and
risked their own lives to manifest social discontent.
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LETTER
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Our
sincere apologies to Mr. Art Bell
In his column, Men and Events, last
February 17, 2009, our columnist Alito L. Malinao quoted an open
letter supposedly written by Mr. Art Bell, a radio talk show host in
Nevada, USA, and a rejoinder from a certain Ms. May Muñoz, a
Filipina.
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