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Tuesday, March 04, 2003

“Berlin. My God, Berlin. If you want to see the wastage of war, you should have seen Berlin. Even after all that had happened I pitied those people. Whole blocks turned to bricks, except now it was becoming neat. Everywhere were these Prussian stacks of bricks, and everywhere these stout women in kerchiefs were making more of them, stacking them higher and higher, passing them in long assembly lines, some of the women actually quite young and pretty, wispy from the lack of food, widowed ghosts roaming the rubble. And if you think women here will do anything for cigarettes, well… But what I remember most is the stench. Heaven help you if you ended up downwind of the grand River Spree. It was a giant sewer, and still full of bodies, swollen like dead rats, black and bloated, the size of small whales.” (Source Link)

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Monday, March 03, 2003

“Person in the driver’s seat knows a lot” by Louise Roug from

;In one popular—if unverifiable—story, a chauffeur who drove Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone heard of Viacom’s plans to acquire Paramount well before rumors started to circulate outside the car. He bought stock and made out like a bandit. (Source Link)

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Starting in 1868, Scotsman Jack Renton lived like a native—including headhunting—for

Starting in 1868, Scotsman Jack Renton lived like a native—including headhunting—for eight years with the people of Malaita, an island in the Solomon group, east of New Guinea.

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“What’s Wrong With France?” by Kenneth R. Timmerman from

; At a dinner party at the home of Indian consul Skand Ranjan Tayal in Houston recently, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) ripped into a French diplomat who was criticizing the U.S. position on Iraq. “It was obvious we were not going to agree,” DeLay said, so he asked the Frenchman if he spoke German. “And he looked at me kind of funny and said, ‘No, I don’t speak German.’ And I said, ‘You’re welcome,’ turned around, and walked off.” (Source Link)

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Desertification in northwest China expanded by

Desertification in northwest China expanded by 52,000 square kilometers between 1994 and 1999, for a total of 2.183 million, making up the majority of the country’s 2.674 million square kilometers of desertified land.

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