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Education

ast — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:05:48 +0000

There’s no magic bullet in fighting poverty but… education is the single best way to improve people’s lives. It bolsters economic growth, reduces extremism and social conflict and reduces run-away population growth… – Nicholas D. Kristof

Truer words were never spoken.

A video from the New York Times columnist about a lost boy of Sudan who emigrated to America and returned to run a school.

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/07/12/opinion/1247468409637/the-education-of-valentino-achak-deng.html

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28

ast — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:59:59 +0000

I'm #reading Beautiful Code by Andy Oram http://bit.ly/dsNDXq #
4 of 5 stars to Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris – http://bit.ly/91oP2d #
I'm #reading The Annotated Dracula by Bram Stoker – http://bit.ly/96E0zP #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21

ast — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:59:59 +0000

I want to read: The Inheritors by William Golding – http://bit.ly/cPTTKQ #
I want to read: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson – http://bit.ly/92kjKi #
4 of 5 stars to Kidnapped; Illustrated Junior Library by Robert Louis Stevenson – http://bit.ly/aBXyOg #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07

ast — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:59:59 +0000

Pearls Before Swine does it again! http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2010-01-31/ #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-10

ast — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:59:59 +0000

I rated a YouTube video (5 out of 5 stars) — University Challenge 09-10 Rd2 Manchester vs. KCL (part 1) http://youtu.be/0xrxZL8Q5cs?a #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-03

ast — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:59:59 +0000

Saw Veer (http://bit.ly/v9dP) at the Princeton Environmental Film Festival today @PrincetonPL. Quite entertaining and insightful. #peff #
Quite cool: Waving Goodbye to 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyoGbd1iJIw ; btw, I have some Google Wave invites if anybody needs one #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-27

ast — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:59:59 +0000

I rated a YouTube video (5 out of 5 stars) — What Is Sex Good For http://youtu.be/YpOSQz3m_s0?a #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-20

ast — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:59:59 +0000

Watching Hulu – A Colbert Christmas: http://hulu.com/w/3bil #
Abstraction: http://xkcd.com/676/ #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-01

ast — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:59:59 +0000

Interesting: http://bit.ly/3Wxkgl #

Ginger Spice and Madhav Kumar Nepal

ast — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:45:18 +0000

From the 12th October issue of The New Yorker.

After sitting down, [pop singer and former Spice Girl Geri] Halliwell said that she had recently been to Nepal, where she met the Prime Minister, Madhav Kumar Nepal. “You know guys—you have to nurture them a bit,” she said. She had given the Prime Minister a maternal pinch on the cheek. “He appreciated it,” she said. “And he told me he was scared. He had been Prime Minister for only three months.” On her cell phone she pulled up a shot of herself, in a turquoise sari, with her arm around the diminutive, smiling head of state, and said, “With collective energy, we can mother men into doing the right thing.”

Update: I found pictures.