| Don't forget our heroes dying in foreign lands
Paul's All Saints Memorial Concert. The string ensemble performed Adagio for Strings, which many people may remember as the song that played while the hero in the movie Platoon was being killed in Vietnam. Our country still has heroes dying in foreign lands. I hope we never forget their sacrifice and the suffering loved ones they leave behind. Jackson Turner Franklin 37069 Alive Hospice provides valuable, caring service To the Editor: November is National Hospice/Palliative Care month. It's a time when hospice programs across the country celebrate their common purpose and raise awareness about the important services they provide. I'd like to tell you about Alive Hospice. We provide loving end-of-life care to Middle Tennesseans who face life-threatening illnesses and a life expectancy of six months or less.
Young investors grin and bear it
MUMBAI: For several 18-to-25-year-olds, pocket money from Papa is passé. They are investing big time in stocks and shares after discovering very early in life that it's hip to be fiscal. But the market has now shown its darker side and several youngsters trading in the market have booked losses.
Take Priyanka Khanna, for instance, who entered the market in October when it was at 17,300. She managed to make about Rs 25,000 by short-selling on a regular basis, but was caught unawares when the market started dipping. She has booked losses and has had to pay her broker Rs 65,000.
"I will have to borrow money from my father and pay my broker. But I guess I got it all messed up by investing in penny stocks," she said.
A senior official from brokerage firm Sharekhan pointed out that several youngsters were entering the market to make easy money.
China tops India again
Not only was India behind China in number of papers published, Jain notes, but far more Chinese research papers are landing in top Western journals. More worrisome still for the Indians – and encouraging for the Chinese – is the likelihood that the trend is going to continue: Jain writes that the World Bank's “Knowledge Index," a ranking that looks at a country's scientific fundamentals including Internet and PC usage, patents, and IT adoption by local companies, also skews heavily toward China. In 1995 China scored 3.03 and now scores 4.21, he writes, but India has gone in the other direction, scoring 2.76 11 years ago and just 2.61 today. With scores like that, China can afford to suffer its share of embarrassing science scandals. .
U.S. candidates get set for 2 crucial primaries
Mandating that the poor pay for private insurance is too intrusive and unneccessary. Funny, Mitt Romney doesn't think so. He touts his Massachusettes health care mandate as being the "free market" solution to the country's health care woes. Romney says that we force people to insure their cars for the good of society (many people drive without insurance and many states require those of us who are responsible to purchase additional coverage to cover the possibility that you may be in a collision with an uninsured motorist, but I digress), why shouldn't we require people to get health insurance. Bravo Mitt. And what about fuel standards? Why, we should be able to mandate what people put into their bodies to ensure they run as efficiently as possible, right? What else Mitt? I know, let's start requiring testing, like we do with cars.
North Coast Fishing Report
There's good news and there's bad news for local fishing this week. The good news: this latest bout of rain and storms is going to help put holding steelhead on the move and bring fresh winter steelhead from the ocean and estuaries into our rivers. The bad news: most of our rivers are blown out. It's a real double edged sword, but winter steelhead and rain go hand in hand so if you want to fish, you just have to make the best of it. Or you could just clean the garage and gear up for the Super Bowl. This week I asked three guides this question: “If you could fish anywhere this weekend, where would it be?" With most of our rivers blown out for at least a week, maybe more, Kenny Armstrong (www.norcalriverfishing.com; 707-498-4087) replied unequivocally “the Smith." He said that the Smith River is still fishing decently, but most boats are reporting low numbers of fish.
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