EFFORTS to create a separate aviation unit for the Armed Forces date back to the year 1935 when, on January 2, the Philippine Constabulary Air Corps (PCAC) was organized to lend reconnaissance support to the Philippine Constabulary’s peace and order missions. On December 23, 1935, the Philippine Com
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I SAW the movie Spider-Man. What thrilled and entertained the jampacked cinema were the special effects, like Spider-Man flying and swinging with his magical spider thread from one high-rise building to the other, the aerial combats between Spider-Man and the tentacled “Dr. Octopus.”
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A SURVEY of CEOs and executives showed business to be no less corrupt than government. This is not surprising since avarice and power often go hand in hand. As Lord Acton put it long ago, “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.’’ One can’t be too rich (“too thin’’) or too powerful; i
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IN the farmhouse were three generations of farmers. The elderly grandfather, the middle-aged father, and the teen-aged son.
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PRESIDENT Arroyo called on her listeners in Monday’s Bishops’-Businessmen’s Conference for Human Development to help her get rid of corruption in government.
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(Statement by the Secretary of Foreign Affairs Delia Domingo Albert during the United Nations Security Council Open Debate on “The Role of Civil Society in Post-Conflict Peace-Building,” UN Security Council Chamber, June 22, 2004, New York)
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AN aneurysm is a permanent distention of an artery caused by a weakness in its wall. Aneurysm can form anywhere, but the most common and problematic sites are the arteries of the brain, and the aorta, the large major artery through which the heart pumps blood to the rest of the body.
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THE Kataastaasan, Kagalanggalang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan or Katipunan for short was the brainchild of Marcelo H. del Pilar. He tried to establish it in Manila in 1890 but succeeded only in 1892 through the help of his brother-in-law Deodato Arellano and other Filipino patriots. Del Pilar envi
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DON Isabelo de los Reyes was one of the pillars of the Filipino struggle for freedom. Don Belong (as he was fondly called by his kin and friends) pursued steadfastly the ideals of Fathers Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora (Gomburza), Dr. Jose P. Rizal, Marcelo H. del Pilar, and the rest
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(Speech delivered by Transportation and Communication Secretary Leandro R. Mendoza at the 13th Founding Anniversary Celebration of the Philippine National Police-Aviation Security Group (PNP-ASG) at the PNP-ASG headquarters, Silicon Bldg., Pildera II, Pasay City, Friday, July 2, 2004)
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JESUS summoned His twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness.
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