Haiti to launch cholera vaccination with PAHO/WHO support
Campaign will target 200,000 people in three departments. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon presented the vaccines, which were financed with UN emergency funds Port-of-Prince, Haiti, 23 July 2014 (PAHO/WHO) – Haiti is set to vaccinate 200,000 people in three departments against…
Here’s evidence that insanely long prison terms are a bad way to deter crime
By Corey Adwar From Business Insider A wide-ranging new report from the National Research Council on mass incarceration in the United States finds that lengthy prison sentences are not the best way to deter crime. From 1972 to 2012, the…
Authorities bust tiny dog out of hot van at Costco, 98-year-old mom out of hot car at casino
By Laura Northrup From Consumerist Shopping at Costco is pretty great, but that doesn’t mean you should bring your dog along on your shopping trip, then leave it in your vehicle with the temperature outside in the 90s. The same…
How the Caribbean plans to become a green energy powerhouse
By Will Nichols From Business Green Existential threat from climate change and high electricity costs are driving Caribbean Development Bank programme to boost clean energy investment Imagine a storm crashing through Britain, tearing down bridges and power lines across the…
This Hungarian-American mathematician may have been smarter than Einstein
By Gus Lubin And Andy Kiersz From Business Insider Some would claim the smartest person of the 20th century worked down the hall from Albert Einstein at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study. John von Neumann, born in Budapest in 1903…
Sweet treats reap funds for Cayman’s ARK
Following another successful and much anticipated charitable bake sale, the staff of Maples and Calder’s Corporate Services department (“MCS”) raised CI$2,000.00 for Cayman’s ARK (Acts of Random Kindness). The proceeds of the sale will aid a local family in need,…
‘Exciting’ drug flushes out HIV
By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News HIV Scientists say they have made an “exciting” step towards curing HIV by forcing the virus out of hiding. HIV can become part of someone’s DNA and lie dormant for decades, making a…
Hot car deaths: The children left behind
By Tom Geoghegan BBC News, Washington Every few days in the US, there are local media reports about young children dying from heatstroke, or being rescued, after being left to bake in parked cars. Why does it happen so often?…
Hostels embrace Airbnb in effort to escape rising booking fees
By Eli Epstein From Mashable At the Pacific Tradewinds Hostel in San Francisco, owner Darren Overby has found an unlikely ally in his efforts to keep his hostel’s operating costs down: Airbnb. Though the website is primarily associated with apartment…
Is Islam at a Crossroads and Importance of Hijrah
By Dallas Darling From Wn.com Is Islam at a Crossroads? No. But like most other faiths and worldviews or secularized ideologies around the globe, it is experiencing significant internal and external transformations. And like the rest of those living in…
