[LINK] Some news links

[rfmcdonald]

I apologize for the very lengthy list here. What can I say but that I let things accumulate? Future mass links lists will be shorter, do not worry.

Instead of the lengthier discussions of individual articles I have elsewhere, these articles, dealing with subjects of relatively peripheral interest to me but still noteworthy, will be commented upon in the brief but succinct way of mindstalk and zarq.

Enjoy!

• Chile's earthquake, it turns out, was a boon to Québec's lumber industry by knocking out its Southern Hemisphere competitor.


• Will Labour gets its chance to transform the House of Lords into an elected Senate, I wonder.


• The tuna is on the verge of extinction, thanks to overfishing particularly but not only in the Mediterranean.


• It turns out that the earthquake in Chile helped the Chilean military regain some of the prestige lost under Pinochet.


• The executive director of the UNAIDS program is pushing for the worldwide legalization of homosexuality in order to help treat HIV/AIDS.


• Um, OK. Apparently the British government feared that the Boy Scouts might link up with the Hitler Youth. Was that really possible, despite certain shared philosophical commonalities?


• The Moscow Times reflects on the divisive role of history in the former Soviet Union, with Russians trying to assimilate their Communist past and others like Ukrainians rejecting it as evil.


• A widow writes about how her husband clung to life despite a hospital bill of more than six hundred thousand dollars US. What price life?


• It looks likeGoogle China is going to shut down.


• In the United Kingdom, music downloads are helping to boost the income of the music industry.


• Surprise: a study reveals that readers of news online do not want to have to pay for the privilege.


• The Canadian and American dollars are moving towards parity, again.