"Angels in America" play sends reporter Flying!
SEATTLE - The play "Angels in America" is back in Seattle after two decades. And now they're sharing stage secrets. Longtime Seattle actor Marya Sea Kaminski is the Angel of America in Intiman Theatre's production. She shared the key to becoming Angelic ...
how America is terrorizing its People around the World to pay their Debt
What do actor Jet Li, opera singer Maria Callas, writer T.S. Eliot, financier John Templeton, actress Elizabeth Taylor, and Queen Noor of Jordan all have in common? They are all former US citizens who went through the formal process of relinquishing or ...
Latin America’s Anti-drug Policies Feed on the Poor
SAN JOSE, Sep 6 2014 (IPS) - Poor young men, slumdwellers and single mothers are hurt the most by anti-drug policies in Latin America, according to representatives of governments, social organisations and multilateral bodies meeting at the Fifth Latin ...
Should America Follow Quebec’s Lead And Ban Homework From Elementary Schools?
The Toronto Star reports that the Quebec-based Collège de Saint-Ambroise has launched a one-year pilot project in which homework for grade one through six has effectively been banned, though only to an extent. A spokeswoman for the Jonquiere School Board ...
Investment in Latin America Falls 10% in First Half
RIO DE JANEIRO — Private equity and venture capital investments in Latin America dropped by 10 percent in the first half of this year compared with figures in the period a year earlier, the Latin American Private Equity and Venture Capital Association ...
America bounces back, at least for a while
We used to be No. 1. Now we’re No. 3. We probably ought to be satisfied with that. The United States has recovered some lost ground in the World Economic Forum’s annual competitiveness rankings, which provide useful snapshots of what’s going right ...
'America's Got Talent:' Real talent losses over a cute puppy
Last night on “America’s Got Talent” the results came in and the three acts in the bottom were Blue Journey, Christian Stoinev, and Smoothini. America would have a chance for an instant save, and the judges would go ahead and chose the last act to ...
TV ratings: 'Big Brother' and 'America's Got Talent' win on Wednesday
With help from "Big Brother," CBS won the night among the key 18-to-49-year-old demographic, according to Nielsen. Roughly 6.5 million people tuned in to "Big Brother" to watch the houseguests compete for the title of Head of Household. Though down 4% from ...
For America's Last Frontier, 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act a Chance to Celebrate Wild Alaska
Alaska is big. Really, really big. They say "everything's bigger in Texas," but whoever "they" are didn't travel far enough north. At more than 660,000 square miles, Alaska is the largest state in the union...by far. It boasts the most tidal shoreline ...
Drought leaves up to 2.81 million hungry in Central America: U.N
OROCUINA Honduras (Reuters) - A severe drought has ravaged crops in Central America and as many as 2.81 million people are struggling to feed themselves, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday, though the region's coffee crop has been ...
