Wednesday, April 28, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Wednesday, April 28, 2010)
(1)- CHANGING TIMES -- Israel on Sunday imposed a two-year ban on fishing in the Sea of Galilee, halting a practice that dates back to biblical times when tradition holds Jesus and his disciples fished those waters.

(2)- SALES TACTICS -- General Motors uses grass-roots events across the country to aid in recovering from last year's bankruptcy and thus went to a Detroit church, looking for customers who might want to test drive its vehicles.

(3)- RETURN TRIP -- A fleet of traditionally-designed Polynesian canoes leave New Zealand for a return journey through the Pacific, reliving the epic migrations of the past. The four canoes will sail 2,485 miles to French Polynesia.

(4)- DÉJÀ VU -- Russia is increasingly flexing its military muscles by penetrating Western airspace. European defense officials have been worried about an increasing number of Russian bombers entering Western airspace.

(5)- ANTI-GOLDMAN SACHS POLEMIC -- From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression — and they're about to do it again.

(6)- CHINA RULES -- All across Africa, new tracks are being laid, highways built,ports deepened, commercial contracts signed—all on an unprecedented scale, and led by China, whose appetite for commodities seems insatiable.

(7)- HENRY LUCE -- The lives and careers of even the most eminent journalists are notable for their evanescence, never more so than now, when journalism as we have known it for generations is itself vanishing. Still, Luce was a giant.

(8)- THE ART OF CHOICE -- Unlike “provocative” books designed to stir controversy, “The Art of Choosing” is refreshingly thought-provoking. Contemplating wide-ranging exploration of choice leads to new questions.

(9)- STILL IN EFFECT -- Reduced to wielding cudgels, the Lord’s Resistance Army is as outmatched as any insurgency could be. So why can’t it be stopped? Graeme Wood reports from the Central African Republic.

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