Posts Tagged ‘China’

Implementing Solar Power on an Unevenly-Lighted Planet

A community center in Würrich, Germany with solar panels on its roof (wikimedia commons) We live on a spherical world, tilted slightly askew. And we have weather. Although we do not think of them now, preconditions such as these will have a profound impact on the way solar energy is implemented in this...

September 21st, 2009 | ISSUES | Read More

The Kashmir Conflict: A Crisis Unjustly Forgotten

A battle rages on in Kashmir, with no end in sight. It is a land cursed by its very location – cruelly sandwiched between three nuclear states: India, Pakistan, and China. Their political tug-of-war of greater powers has torn apart the Kashmir region, and its people. The centerpiece of the conflict...

September 21st, 2009 | INTERNATIONAL | Read More

Married to Myth: Polygamy in America

Captivated by the images of women wearing prairie garb and mountainous coiffures, the mainstream media readily ate up last month’s news of a raid on a polygamist compound in Eldorado, Texas. The 416 children removed on April 5 are still in state custody. The normally isolated women and children of...