| Justin Beck
While many news sources are highlighting the phrase "grave and deteriorating" from the Iraq Study Group's new 160-page report on the situation in Iraq, Helen Thomas complains that the report contains nothing critical of President Bush. She says it avoids addressing the fact that the United States invaded Iraq, destroyed the country and killed tens of thousands of people. Get out, says Helen. .
Hyderabad, November 14
Forty-two years after his demise, French architect and town planner Le Corbusier known for his genius, continues to live through his breathtaking buildings and furniture designs. Uttarakhand hikes money for bravery awards
Dehra Dun, November 14
Uttarakhand Chief Minister B.C. Khanduri has announced unprecedented hike in gallantry awards money as well as annual grant for the soldiers hailing from the state. Chandrayan-2: ISRO to provide orbiter
Bangalore, November 14
The Indian Space Research Organisation today claimed the agreement signed between it and Russia�s Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) on November 12 would involve a lunar orbiting spacecraft and a lander on the moon�s surface. ULFA not sincere about talks: Gogoi
Guwahati, November 14
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi today fired a broadside at the banned United Liberation Front of Asom for being �insincere� towards coming forward for talks with the government to find a solution to the insurgency problem respecting the people�s longing for restoration of peace.
Fairfax students rate Culinary Academy chefs on their nutritious ...
Looking like a pack of walking marshmallows in their tall white chef's toques, 80 sixth-graders from White Hill School in Fairfax filled the bistro at the California Culinary Academy on Thursday morning. The 11- and 12-year-old kids plus 20 parents were bused to San Francisco for an unusually tasty field trip. Their mission: eat and rate four nutritious school lunches prepared by soon-to-graduate chefs in the academy's banquet and catering class taught by San Anselmo resident Beth Casey. It was Casey's idea to put her 16 neophyte caterers through their paces by having them critiqued by youngsters. She called the event "Students Teaching Students," because it seemed a perfect opportunity for two disparate .
Plight of the Huddled Masses: A Hard Time for Thanksgiving
Gertrude Winter, a char lady in her sixties who works at a government office, will have a turkey after all this Thanksgiving. At one stage yesterday, it seemed a close run thing. As she sat in the hallway of the Bread for the City charity a rumour swept the place that they were out of turkeys. Agitated, another woman said: "The lady says there are no turkeys left, what are we going to do?" In fact the turkeys were already on their way from another warehouse and what might have degenerated into a mini-riot, reverted instead to the good-natured banter of strangers. Thrown together by poverty and the pinched generosity of the United States, they waited to be interviewed to see if they were eligible for a free turkey and a bag of groceries. Mobile soup kitchens are keeping the homeless on the streets fed, but it is the working poor and those with young and old dependants who patiently line up at Bread for the City.
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