By Meredith F. Small, LiveScience's Human Nature Columnist ( Read more... )

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2057084,00.html

The lives of these people make for interesting, but fairly puzzling reading.

Recently when I channel surfed I saw a little bit of a very interesting documentary. Sadly since I was in a great hurry to meet someone I couldn't stay at home and watch it. I don't remember even in what channel it was showed at (In Russian)and can't look the film up.

( Shamanic saint princess in Russia? )

"Y'all" isn't welcome in Erica Tobolski's class in voice and diction at the University of South Carolina. And forget about "fixin'," as in getting ready to do something, or "pin" when talking about the writing instrument ( Read more... )

By Dominic Casciani, BBC News community affairs

Young people from working class ethnic minorities tend to out-perform their white counterparts, says a report.Research into 140,000 children over 30 years found immigrant families breaking through class barriers, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation said ( Read more... )

On the October 14 broadcast of his daily radio show, right-wing radio host Neal Boortz stated that if the country is faced with an impending national disaster, it should make it a higher priority to save rich Americans rather than poor Americans.An October 13 New York Daily News article spurred Boortz's comments. The front-page story, headlined " ( Read more... )

India readies for shopping mall boom
By Zubair Ahmed
BBC News, Mumbai

It is a make-believe world.

Once you are inside, you forget about the city's potholed roads, utterly rowdy traffic and in-your-face poverty.

Instead, Inorbit, the biggest shopping mall in India's commercial city Mumbai (Bombay), is buzzing with customers.

It is a rich man's ( Read more... )