| Recycle the economy: Reuse
Coached on the practice since elementary school, recycling comes as naturally to us as breathing. Future historians may well define us by our compulsion to recycle: The blue-bin generation, they'll call us. Now that we are in college, even our water bottles make the request. "Please Recycle," my Poland Spring bottle commands on its label. And are we, especially now that recycling in Brunswick is single-stream, about to refuse the order? When recycling is so easy, how can you justify not making the morally right choice? Try not to let it hit you too hard, but our automatic acceptance and reverential treatment of the three circling arrowsthe emblem of the recycling ritualhas the potential to take us dangerously down the wrong path. In 100 years, scholars of American society may well be shaking their heads at our myopia.
Chennai hospital has overseas visitors
A study group with representatives from UK, Australia, West Indies, Canada, New Zealand, Malaysia, Ghana and Sri Lanka attended the Common Wealth study conference 2007 held at the Sankara Nethralaya, Nungambakkam branch, recently. This initiative was taken up by the Confederation of Indian Industry(CII). According to a press release, the theme of the conference was on how to work together for inclusive growth and development. Sankara Nethralaya was chosen by the group as an NGO that worked towards achieving inclusive growth and development. The team from Sankara Nethralaya showed how the hospital excelled in patient care and community services.
Funding boost expected to cut eye surgery waiting times
The waiting list for eye surgery in central Australia is expected to be cut with the launch of a new program based at the Alice Springs Hospital. The Commonwealth has pledged a $180,000 to employ an eye health manager through the Fred Hollows Foundation. The foundation's David Britton says blindness is 10 times more common in Indigenous communities than the rest of the population. He says the program will help reduce waiting times for the 350 people in central Australia waiting for eye surgery. "We will also be bringing some surgeons from outside of central Australia to conduct a blitz on eye health over the next six months," he said. "Then more importantly in all this, we will be trying to build a sustainable system of eye health which is going to try and address long-term the needs of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in central Australia." .
More and more Jews reject putting support for Israel over ...
I do not encourage such phenomena . . . but I wonder if we can stop it from growing if the whole world is going to continue turning its back on the Palestinians. --Kamal Nasser, April 1973, discussing the Munich Olympic massacre in the previous year. In early February of this year, a group of British Jews, some quite Influential, penned an open letter to Londons Guardian newspaper. Entitled A Time to Speak Out, the authors made an official break with the countrys Jewish establishment arguing that its leadership, by putting support for Israel over the fundamental rights of the Palestinians, was no longer in a position to speak for a majority of British Jews. Around the same time the three top British universities; Oxford, Cambridge and London were host to Israeli apartheid week.
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