news from kintespace.com ::: 2/26/2010
news from kintespace.com
::: 2/26/2010
Contents:
- ::: Maureen Amaka Azuike: Varsity Life
- ::: Ezrah Aharone: Political Burglary in the Union
- ::: Johann Christoph Arnold: Fighting Childhood Obesity#### ::: Maureen Amaka Azuike: Varsity Life
::: ::: http://kintespace.com/p_azuike0.html
This, the sixth selection from Dr. Jerry Agada’s labor of love, 500 Nigerian Poets. This Aboki Publishers volume, shipping from 43 New Bridge (Otukpo) Road in Makurdi, Benue State, sings with diversity. It is a rich tapestry of creative vision.
Dr. Maureen Amaka Azuike is a senior lecturer in the Department of English, University of Jos. She is the author of the novel Campus Blues and the poetry collection Tides and Time.
::: Ezrah Aharone: Political Burglary in the Union
::: ::: http://kintespace.com/kp_aharone11.html
America was not only born with foreign debts from war-costs of its revolution, but it has bled annual debts in all but two years since its founding. Of the $3.8 trillion in Obama’s proposed 2011 federal budget, $738 billion is for defense and over $1 trillion will be borrowed from foreign creditors. Now with double-digit unemployment and a $12 trillion national debt, at least 45 cents of every US dollar is owed to governments like Kuwait and China.
::: Johann Christoph Arnold: Fighting Childhood Obesity
::: ::: http://kintespace.com/kp_johanna7.html
With more than a third of our children now overweight and many already diabetic, Americans of all political colors should commend the First Lady for her recently-announced campaign against childhood obesity. But taking on such an enormous problem is going to require a lot more than praise. And it will require more than heart-healthy choices, limited TV, and “opportunities for exercise”—buzzwords that public health experts have been tossing around for years with no apparent effect.