(Ed. Note: Welcome to the Puck Daddy 2013 summer project, the National Hockey League of Nations. We’ve recruited 30 writers/blogs to identify the best player in their favorite team’s history for each major nationality that creates the fabric of our beloved NHL: Canada, USA, Russia, Czech...
Everyday we hear of an American spy in Russia. How come the USA and Russia still? Why is such a thing taken very lightly? It's like the two countries mutually agree of having spies, unless they get caught.
Myself and some students at my university are looking to establish a school club for MUN. Part of the founding process is appealing to the school committee for a cash grant for any related costs. This grant can't be altered until the next fiscal year, so I want to make sure we have ALL of the...
Why is mass immigration only forced upon Western nations despite the fact that the majority of the population oppose this? Why is someone called racist when they object to this, but no one calls out the Japanese for allowing almost no immigration? It seems like a double standard to me.
Colorado appeared to suffer a huge blow to its hopes of making a deep run in the postseason Thursday when the program announced junior forward Andre Roberson is out indefinitely with a viral infection.
The Daily Camera in Boulder reported Roberson has mononucleosis.
The Buffaloes responded...
Americans have shorter lifespans and higher rates of injury and disease than their counterparts in other rich countries, researchers from the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council wrote in a new report this week. The authors added that not only are disadvantaged Americans way...
Two goals from Didier Drogba in the second leg of the Ivory Coast's Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Senegal prompted the home fans to lose hope of qualification and start setting the stadium on fire. When Drogba's penalty kick in the 71st minute of the second leg put the Ivory Coast up...
Young children whose families immigrate to Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States are as prepared and capable of starting school as their native-born counterparts, with one exception - vocabulary and language development. That's the finding of a new study published in the...
Medical research saves lives, suffering and dollars - while also creating jobs and economic activity. The United States has long led the world, with hundreds of thousands of jobs and marketable discoveries generated by government research funding every year. Top students from around the world...
A legendary high school sports program at a juvenile detention center that inspired a major 2006 movie is facing its final season of operation, after the Los Angeles County Probation Department decided to halt all sports at the facility.
As reported by the Los Angeles Times, Camp...
Preterm babies are born at a higher rate in the United States than in 130 other countries of the world, including many poorer nations, according to the just-released report 'Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth.' The report, containing the first-ever estimates of preterm...
Two high school baseball teams which use the Panthers mascot two states apart brought a halt to two of the nation's longest losing streaks on Saturday and Sunday, ending more than four years of combined misery for the two schools.
As reported by the Annapolis Capital and Philadelphia...
pages 6-8, a report by Credit Suisse.
https://infocus.credit-suisse.com/data/_product_documents/_shop/323525/2011_global_wealth_report.pdf
This isn't per capita. It's wealth per adult: ie a combination of income, owned assets, etc.
GDP per capita can be misleading actually.
Research published in bmj.com reveals that sub-Saharan African countries lose billions of dollars by training doctors and investing in them only to find that the clinicians leave to work in developed countries. The study shows that the biggest emigration of doctors and the greatest economic...
They earned that wealth through hard work, determination, dedication, and being better than everyone else, don't they understand that? If it were up to me, the top 1% would own 90% of the wealth. The wealthy are job creators. Imagine how many jobs they'd create if they had 90% of the wealth! We...
Dear Sir or Madame,
We the People have presented many requests to our Congress in this past two years, some of which you have chosen to ignore. You were voted into office to act FOR the people of the United States, NOT to make decisions independent of our desires.
We respectfully Demand that...