The disaster that buried three Hungarian villages in caustic red sludge this week is deepening the gloom of a country gripped by recession, polarization and the near-ubiquitous feeling that its people are doomed to be victims of calamity. Gyoergy Hoffmann, a coal miner in Ajka, a city near the spill, called it “just the latest [...]
Iran confirmed on Sunday that its nuclear programme had been affected by a mysterious computer virus, but sought to play down the impact. Mahmoud Jafari, head of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, said the Stuxnet worm had only affected staff computers rather than the system running the reactor itself. “A team is inspecting several computers [...]
Posted by uspostMovieTuesday, September 21st, 2010
For a nation that proudly declared it would leave no child behind, America continues to do so at alarming rates. Despite increased spending and politicians’ promises, our buckling public-education system, once the best in the world, routinely forsakes the education of millions of children. Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education “statistics” have names: Anthony, [...]
Young workers who normally spend their days assembling iPhones and other high-tech gadgets packed a stadium at their massive campus Wednesday, at a rally to raise morale following a string of suicides at the company’s factories.