My ability to do most of my grading at home enabled me to listen through a random selection of records I hadn’t in quite some time. One which made the grade was Iron Maiden’s 1982 classicThe Number of the Beast, which came out (this version, anyway) on Harvest Records. I’ve neve...
In a previous post, we looked atMexico and the UN Millennium Development Goals.This post is the text of apress release issued by the President’s Officein September 2011: As part of the celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), President Felipe Cald...
The El Sendero Luminoso rockface is in an area known as El Potrero Chico, a short distance from Monterrey, near the town of Hidalgo. TheWikipedia entry for El Potrero Chicodescribes it as having “a large range of different climbs, most of them in the 5.8 to 5.13 grade. The type of c...
In September 1848 Lieutenant Butakov and Academician Karl Ernst von Baer discovered a small island in the centre of the Aral Sea, which they named the Island of Nicholas the First in honour of the Tsar. The value of this remote location was soon exploited by the Tsarist authorities, who open...
A computer science degree is seen as a good investment, given the lucrative calling of Silicon Valley and the ever-growing demand for software engineers. Yet, it is unclear whether all computer science degree holders fare equally well on the job market.