QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life."
--  Teddy Roosevelt

Editorial

2008: A step forward, two backward 

-- M.K.

Interview: Percy Mistry

“It is always more important to protect ‘people’ rather than protect ‘jobs’”

* “Protecting jobs is always a losing proposition in the long run if you try to defy economic reality by doing so”

* “I find it unacceptable that the stimulus package favours IRS projects. I am not in favour of the IRS, have never been, and never will be”

Points To Ponder

Gutter Politics

-- LEX

My Person of the Year

-- R.V.   

2008 : Evénements positifs, négatifs – et menaces globales

-- Sydney Selvon 

Coustics !

-- U.C.   

The risk of tilting the balance too much to one side 

-- Krishna Bhardwaj 

A Future of Back to Basics?

-- Dr R Neerunjun Gopee

The Week In Review

America: The recession continues to deepen but Barack Obama is getting set to go

-- PARAMANUND SOOBARAH 

La femme  en 2008: Pile-la ou change-la en pilier ? 

-- SHAKUNTALA BOOLELL 

Data Miners of the World, Unite

-- Samad Ramoly 

Tromelin: Major Breakthrough 

-- Dilip Laxmun 

Science and Technology and Economic Theories 

-- Prof Soodursun Jugessur 

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