Debate: 'Should Muslims turn a blind eye to the cartoons?'

Seeded on Wed Mar 1, 2006 5:49 AM EST (prospectmagazine.co.uk)

Two Muslims disagree about the appropriate response to the cartoon controversy

iran, muslim, world-news, prophet, cartoon, danish, muhammad

No more heroes: On Leo Strauss

Seeded on Wed Mar 1, 2006 5:48 AM EST (prospectmagazine.co.uk)

Leo Strauss, father of neoconservatism, is not the fascist thinker of left-wing caricature. But neither is he a figure with whom democrats can feel comfortable. He believed in virtue rather than liberalism

bush, politics, heroes, leo, strauss, neoconservatism

Do The World's Poor Children Really Need A $100 Laptop?

Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:03 PM EST

The chairman and founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab recently launched the $100 laptop to the world's media. Is it necessary?

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technology, dollar, politics, chairman, founder, lab, laptop, telephony, mit, hundred

Is This India's Finest Hour?

Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:00 PM EST

Travelling around India this month, in blinding contrast to the evident levels of stark poverty that can be seen in a great number of its citizens, something in the air tells one that India is pulsing with energy for change.

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business, india, economy, development, subcontinent, finest-hour, explore

The Smarter Way to Experience the Great Pyramids

Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:58 PM EST

From their construction throughout the centuries the Pyramids of Giza have represented mystery, wonder and awe to all. They are perhaps the only great architecture of the ancients to have survived more or less completely intact.

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egypt, great, experience, pyramids, cheops, khufu, giza

A Short Guide to Having Fun in Italy

Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:55 PM EST

The best time to go to Italy could well be, well, anytime. In reality the best time is between April and June as the flood of school holidays hasn't yet hit the roads, the countryside is at its fullest bloom and the weather isn't uncomfortably hot yet.

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travel, weather, italy, food, guide, fun, cuisine, region, speciality

Travelling in the Arabian Peninsula

Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:53 PM EST

It may seem in the days of mass tourism and cheap worldwide flights that no stone has been left unturned in our pursuit of the unexplored. However, Arabia still offers much in the way of mystery and exoticism.

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travel, dubai, arabia, peninsula, sand, civilisations

A New Science for a New Climate

Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:49 PM EST

At first glance it's hard to imagine how the proliferation of human activity upon the environment has been a major factor in climate change given that climate change alone is nothing new. Over two million years the earth's history has seen enormous changes.

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technology, energy, wind, coal, science, climate, change, toxic, carbon, hydrogen

A new science for a new climate

Seeded on Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:04 AM EST (TravelBX.com)

At first glance its hard to imagine how the proliferation of human activity upon the environment has been a major factor in climate change given that climate change alone is nothing new.

human, politics, environment, science, climate, change, activity