Critical Times

Reports of the floating rubbish dump first emerged back in 1997 when an American sailor discovered it.

He then established a marine research foundation to raise awareness of the pollution. Now there are a number of scientists who have become alarmed at the situation.

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The Associated Press
Sunday 19 August 2007

Kegbara Dere, Nigeria – The fire burned strong for 45 days and 45 nights, blanketing the village with ash and torching the young cassava plants in Ada Baniba’s field. As she weeded, the flames flared out of the leaking oil pipeline behind her. It wasn’t that no one could put the fire out. read more »

By Conn Hallinan
Foreign Policy In Focus

Friday 10 November 2006

“War is hell,” Union General William Tecumseh Sherman famously said 14 years after the end of the bloodiest conflict in US history. “It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation.” Clearly the U. read more »

US restaurant serves up burger to die for

A restaurant in the south-western US state of Arizona that proudly admits to trying to finish off its customers has introduced a new item on its menu – the “quadruple bypass burger”.

The burger at the Heart Attack Grill restaurant is stacked with four beef patties, cheese, onions, tomatoes and fried bacon and weighs in at 8,000 calories – more than three times what the human body needs in one day.

Patrons who have no appetite for the quadruple bypass burger can opt for the triple or double bypass.

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