What a relief! I was finally ready to submit my Ph.D. upgrade report. This upgrade is a procedure that you need to go through in some UK universities. When you are first registered, you are considered...
Yesterday morning I read a news account of a 17-year-old Portland, Oregon, boy who had planned to detonate bombs at his high school to kill as many of his schoolmates as possible.
He had detailed pla...
As the academic year draws to a close and it’s time for final exams, it is understandable that university students are stressed and urgency pervades their lives. This is human nature — how...
If we can picture charity as the act of giving a hungry man a fish; then philanthropy would certainly be the act of teaching that man how to fish for himself. Although both tackle the problems of the...
Is the new social media a reliable source for information? While most of us are happy that people from all over the world finally have the resources to express their thoughts, ideals and daily events...
In a new twist in the ongoing struggle over Syria, Shiite fighters from Iran, Lebanon and Iraq are flowing into Syria to take part in an all-out battle to save the regime of the embattled President As...
