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Governments are urged to act decisively to mitigate effects of climate change
A RECENT report released by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) entitled "Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability," reveals that warmer global temperatures are causing profound changes in many of the earth’s natural systems and that 20 to 30 percent of plant and animal species assessed so far are likely to be at increased risk of extinction if increases in global average temperature exceed 1.5-2.5 degrees centigrade.
Endless graft probe
By Romeo V. Pefianco
HOW many months or years of painstaking inquiry are devoted to the filing of administrative or criminal charges or both in graft cases?
National Day of Uruguay
TODAY is the National Day of Uruguay.
Analysis
By LAWRENCE Barlett
Agence France Presse
(A controversial teenage love affair in the 1960s set Australian schoolgirl Carol Millwater on an exotic path through life that took her from a city suburb to a fishing village in tropical Papua New Guinea. Early hardships adapting to a different culture and the challenges of being a white woman married to a black man in a colonial outpost tested the romance. But she triumphed over the odds, going on to be honoured by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, Papua New Guinea’s head of state. Dame Carol Kidu spoke to South Pacific news editor Lawrence Bartlett about her extraordinary journey.)
What the ‘narrow door’ means
By Fr. BEL R. SAN LUIS, SVD
SOME years ago, some companions and I made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, particularly Jerusalem. Among the spots we visited was the tomb of King David, highly revered by all the Jews.
Denunciation of the Scribes and Pharisees
Matthew 23:1-12
Victory
By Jesus P. Estanislao
TO win and achieve victory for the progress of our people and development in our land, we need to do our share and then pray for God to work a miracle, which is the biggest and most important share of all.
Still the Garci case in senators’ mind?
By HERN P. ZENAROSA
SENATOR Richard Gordon may be overstating it when he warned of the abolition of the Senate if it would pursue investigation of the Garcillano case, but the warning flare serves its purpose for the senators to turn their attention to more pleasant matters that could at least ease the impoverishment of many of our people.
Jovito Salonga, 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee
By Florangel Rosario Braid
ON August 31, Senator Jovito Salonga will be awarded the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay award for his invaluable contribution to public service. As many know, Senator Salonga’s impact on our national life had extended beyond the long years of service in government.
The endless ‘Garci’
By ADRIAN E. CRISTOBAL
THREE distinguished senators saying they will absent themselves from a Senate reinvestigation of the so-called Garci tapes as a committee of the whole are not likely to stop it since there will still be a quorum.
Reign of rainmaker
By JULIE YAP DAZA
WIZARDRY or science? If you’re an Air Force pilot flying a 40-year-old plane that’s older than you are, rainmaking is a gamble.
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