Needless to say, I’m very, very happy to have new Ugly Betty episodes back on the air! Unfortunately, I could only watch their first half (and barely) of the episode before the link was somehow broken, and I have yet to find another link to the episode (or take the time to do so). But… Read More Review: Ugly Betty, Season 3, Episode 20: Rabbit Test – Part I
There are some terrible things happening out there, and they are well chronicled – sometimes overly so. There has been an increase in ‘Good News’ reporting (the Montreal Gazette has a whole page dedicated to good news only in each issue) and so I have decided to join the bandwagon. Youth art project brings citation… Read More Good News Campaign: Dissipating the Doldrums
While (thankfully) the odds of this happening to a websurfer are low, they are still (unfortunately) higher than they used to be. Apathy being one of the reasons why no one seems to really care anymore, I found it important to share this news story with you in the hopes that we all remember the… Read More And who said one person can’t make a difference?
While many around me were complaning that the WHO and various national health monitoring agencies hadn’t moved fast enough to stop the spread of the swine flu, I can’t help but think of the differences between the outbreak of SARS a couple of years ago and the current outbreak we are living through right now.… Read More The Internet and the Flu
Yearbook Photo Smiles Predict Marriage Success By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News The intensity of a person’s smile in a yearbook, or other early photograph, predicts whether or not the individual will later divorce, according to a new study that identified the seemingly improbable link. The finding adds to a growing body of evidence that smiling… Read More Brush up your smile, it might matter more than you even thought possible
This is a very inspiring story – especially considering the age of the person of interest. <!– –>My barefoot challenge By Bilaal Rajan, Friday April 24th 2009 About: Toronto-based author, fundraiser and UNICEF Canada Ambassador Bilaal Rajan is 12 years old and has raised almost $5 million for programs worldwide. During National Volunteer Week (April… Read More Going barefoot for a Cause
Sometimes, being the change implies getting out of your comfort zone, getting out there and doing what needs to be done. And, however cute and funny the people in the story below are, you have to admit: they are doing what they can to help. Even if they kind of look funny doing it. Perhaps,… Read More It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman… Or is it?
As Sahar’s Blog has been evolving, I have been talking to more and more people around about the various subjects it covers. After all, the whole point is to create a forum where various points of views are represented, not just mine! And it always surprises me how people want one thing, say another thing… Read More What we want, What we say and What we do: Not quite the same
Commentary: Why swine flu scares us By Bob Greene, CNN Contributor Take a stroll through the aisles of one of the big national chain-pharmacy stores: Walgreens, or CVS, or Rite Aid. You probably have done exactly that recently — paying a visit to one of the big drugstores is something Americans do almost by rote… Read More CNN Commentary: ‘Why swine flu scares us’
Seriously? No Ugly Betty from March 19th to April 30th? How in the world are we supposed to survive the end of winter and, for Montrealers, an overwhelmingly disappointing end to the 2008-2009 Centennial season of the Habs if we can’t count on things like Ugly Betty? At least the upcoming plot twists sound pretty… Read More Review: Ugly Betty, Season 3, Month-long Hiatus: Lament of a Disgruntled Fan