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Counter anti-foreigner talkThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 8:22PMDear Straits Times, I refer to your report dated 20 Jul 2010. In the report, it is said that the 40,000 resident births in the mid-1980s cannot make up for the 221,600 new jobs created in 2008. But there were 62,900 residents who were unemployed in 2008 so ideally, we should be looking at importing 221,600 – [...]

Is the new Public Transportation Fare System fair? Maybe not.Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 8:07PMJust 1 week into the new system, I have discovered some flaws or discrepancies in the distance fare system. Called up LTA and spoke to an officer about this, were told that they will look into this but till date, have not received any reply. First off, the distance indicated on the info board of bus [...]

Losing It, Edited by Keith GrayThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 6:20PMThe erotic sculptor Eric Gill described his transition from child to adulthood as a process that "suddenly transformed a mere water tap into a pillar of fire." The eight contributors of short stories to this anthology on the topic of losing virginity keep well away from this level of priapic joy. A few still tend instead to emphasise associated shame and guilt. The young Welsh officer in the ...

in case you missed it | Lives of the rich and corporateThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 2:23PMTony Hayward is off to Russia, having overstayed his welcome as CEO of embattled British oil company BP. Hayward, if you’ll remember, pissed off the entire United States with his cavalier handling of the oil leak, triggered on April 20 by an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in which 11 people died.

Update: International HIV/AIDS Partnership Wins Two Awards for Supply Chain ExcellenceThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 1:37PMWASHINGTON, July 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Partnership for Supply Chain Management (PFSCM), a partner of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), under the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), has won two prestigious awards for groundbreaking work on PEPFAR's Supply Chain Management System (SCMS). A project of PFSCM received the Supply Chain Innovation ...

Hutchinson: Invitation to Breitbart Is Another Sign That the GOP Is Lying About RaceThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 10:36AM*Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele has repeatedly snapped back at the charge that the GOP is racist, harbors racist elements, and plays the race card. On occasion, he has loudly said that the RNC must embrace diversity and be a big tent that includes minorities. Every time he opens his mouth to say these [...]

BioMed Analysis: Mixing medicine and moralityFriday, July 23, 2010 @ 9:31AMWhen it comes to health policies on sex and drugs, science has a hard time competing with morality. Policies on HIV/AIDS, for example, are often strongly moralistic, driven by personal judgements about how people such as sex workers and drug users should behave despite their high risk of infection.

Racial harmony? Not yet, but SAfrica makes stridesFriday, July 23, 2010 @ 4:43AMVOSLOORUS, South Africa (AP) — World Cup fever, and the racial harmony it has inspired in her country, is something Caroline Motholo has experienced only from afar.

St. Lucie schools candidates give views on teaching abstinenceThursday, July 22, 2010 @ 10:10PMST. LUCIE COUNTY — Candidates facing off in the Aug. 24 primary election met Thursday in the county’s Commission Chambers for a public forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters.