Singaporeans and residents have mailed more than a quarter of a million postcards and electronic cards to invite people to visit Singapore.
This was part of the Singapore Tourism Board's fourth Project Postcard - an initiative that turns Singaporeans and residents into tourism ambassadors.
Scientists studying stroke patients are reporting that an injury to a specific
part of the brain, near the ear, can instantly and permanently break a smoking
habit, effectively erasing the most stubborn of addictions. People with the
injury who stopped smoking found that their bodies, as one man put it, “forgot
the urge to smoke.”
Well, I don't know if I'm really suggesting it - but I can see visions of kungfu masters demonstrating the anti-smoking chop. "Hit him right here.. and when he wakes up, he won't want to smoke anymore!"
Every day teachers are blamed for what the system they’re just a part of
doesn’t provide: safe, adequately staffed schools with the highest expectations
for all students.
Every year young people enter the teaching profession hoping to emulate the
teachers they’ve seen in films... It’s no surprise that half the teachers in
poor urban schools, like Erin Gruwell herself, quit within five years.
