nikki | September 30, 2008
With the big bailout having been rejected by congress, and the economy in shambles, consumer confidence is at an all time low. I don’t know anyone who says that they are going to be buying any Christmas presents this year. People that I know that work in retail say that their stores are not going [...]
nikki | September 24, 2008
I was reading an article about equality between genders on The Economic Times website. The article was talking about how women in developing countries are lacking behind men in their opportunities for education and for good paying jobs. I don’t think that is an issue confined only to developing countries, although it seems pretty clear [...]
nikki | September 18, 2008
I was reading on the US News and World Report website today that if a pregnant woman gets a flu shot in her third trimester that the flu shot helps to protect her newborn baby from catching the flu. The story was talking about how deadly it is for babies under the age of six [...]
nikki | September 12, 2008
A group of my friends and I are going out to eat dinner tonight at our favorite all-you-can-eat restaurant – The Golden Corral. The first time I went to eat there I was a little “put off” by the name of the restaurant and the “western theme” of the foyer, but once we got inside [...]
nikki | September 6, 2008
I was surprised to read that Japan’s Prime Minster has resigned. Seems that he has reviewed his effectiveness and decided he wasn’t being effective enough and that the job was more difficult than he had expected, he had met with more opposition than he expected.
I sometimes think that government officials in the western world should [...]