Month October 2002

East Timor chooses Finnish as their national language I am not making this up

Where’s the Beef? It’s in Your French FriesThis award winning series of articles from India West, an American weekly, looks at the McDonalds beef in the fries brouhaha from the viewpoint of people from India, and of Jains, who are…

Custom Jesus KING OF KINGS GI Joe figure No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people, P.T. Barnum

Graduated? Now grab a gun or some cocaine Every year only 70 out of more than 800 high school graduates in the towns of Saravena and Araquita in Colombia’s oil-rich west go on to higher education. “The rest have no…

Think you had a bad day? News from the ground in Columbia, here, and here According to Robert Young Pelton’s The World’s Most Dangerous Places, Columbia IS the world’s most dangerous place.