"Greed, insatiable human greed," said Prime Minister Jigme Thinley of Bhutan, describing what he sees as the cause of today's economic catastrophe in the world beyond the snow-topped mountains. "What we need is change," he said in the whitewashed fortress where he works.

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Today is International Nurses Day. This year, amid much talk of health care reform, there is cause for hope that the U.S. government may soon do more to address the nursing crisis.

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Correct furniture comes from Ikea. A correct car looks like a BMW. The correct song is by Elton John. The correct group is The Beatles. The correct religious text is The Bible. The correct economic system is capitalism. The correct domestic pet is a dog.

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Fifteen years ago, Serge Lareault launched a newspaper containing content by Montreal's homeless, who also sell the publication.

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"Today was a very special day in New York. Some wonderful artists gave this city a wonderful gift: they took over about 120 billboards spread around donwntown Manhattan, painted them on white and replaced the advertisements they usually hold with art.

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"Our role as a world-leading research university extends beyond innovation. We have a responsibility to make a significant and socially responsible contribution to society at large," said Professor David Webb, of the School of Clinical Sciences and Community Health.

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"By putting 22 beaten-up but perfectly serviceable old bicycles back on the road, they've cleanly beaten Montreal's new BIXI bike-share project out of the starting gate. But an upstart Point St. Charles collective of activists wasn't gloating about it yesterday.

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Current mysteries of the scientific world.

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And a new science of happiness is finding that these emotions can be readily cultivated in familiar ways, bringing out the good in others and in oneself.

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US President Barack Obama has lifted restrictions on federal funding for research on new stem cell lines. Mr Obama signed an executive order in a major reversal of US policy, pledging to "vigorously support" new research.

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The proponents of Atlantica hope to create a free trade zone that would harmonize regulations between Canada and the US. Environmental standards, minimum wage and trade unions are all considered barriers to increased trade according to some proponents of Atlantica.

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"A dynamic new school of thought is emerging that wants to kick down the walls of recent philosophy and place experimentation back at its centre. It has a name to delight an advertising executive: x-phi.

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"The stuff is a simple mixture of table salt and tap water whose ions have been scrambled with an electric current. Researchers have dubbed it electrolyzed water -- hardly as catchy as Mr. Clean.

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More than 155 Indigenous nations of North America had a word to describe people beyond the binary of male and female, with some tribes recognizing up to six different gender categories.

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South Africa's health minister on Tuesday promised a dramatic increase in treatment for AIDS victims to overcome the legacy of a decade of governmental denial of the epidemic.

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Last year, measles killed nearly 400,000 children, mostly in Africa and Asia. Rubella in pregnancy used to leave scores of children blind and/or deaf from birth. I wanted to educate parents about the terrible risks their unvaccinated children and babies faced.

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This admission is important for several reasons. First, it is an acknowledgement of criminal conduct by the administration by one of its own team.

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Mind-boggingly comprehensive analysis from Mahmood Mamdani. It is hard to think of a figure more reviled in the West than Robert Mugabe.

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Obama: a bricoleur of identity and policy. In his valedictory press conference Monday, George Bush talked about the emotional burden of the presidency, challenged the notion that the job can be isolating, and repeatedly mused about what he'll do in retirement.

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Surreal. As per Ken Silverstein at Harper's: Time is running out on the Bush Administration but the Justice Department's civil rights division is fighting to its last breath — to defend the rights of white people.

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President-elect Barack Obama, as part of the effort to revive the economy, has proposed a massive effort to modernize health care by making all health records standardized and electronic.

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Avoiding packed public transit and rush hour gridlock, more and more people in this Canadian city, with one of the world's heaviest winter snowfalls, are braving extreme cold to commute by bicycle.

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I know from personal involvement that the devastating invasion of Gaza by Israel could easily have been avoided. Recollections from the former President on the lead-up to the Gaza fighting.

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As we all know, lax writing practices earlier this decade led to irresponsible writing and irresponsible reading. This simply put too many families into books they could not finish.

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St. Frances was among dozens of churches that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston decided to close and sell in 2004, not least because of financial turmoil made worse by the abuse scandal in the clergy. But while most churches closed without a fight, parishioners at St.

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