1 PM'S MOVE IS A STEP BACKWARD
Prime Minister Abhisit's support for the ''online scout project'' _ said to be designed to monitor improper content on the internet which poses a threat to national security and the highest institution _ will restrict freedom of expression and contradicts his promise made in January 2009 to have respect for freedom of expression. Source: Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news
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2 Top 5 Things No One Told You To Bring To College: HerCampus List
Our friends at HerCampus know college backward and forward -- mostly because they're there. With the start of school looming, HerCampus correspondent Gabriela Szewcow devised a list of must-haves for your dorm room. Source: The Huffington Post
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3 BACKWARD GLANCES - Redwood overrun with Coke - cola, that is - Redwood Falls, MN - Redwood Falls Gazette
Fifty years ago this week, Redwood Falls voters rejected an effort by the city to build a new nursing home on this lot at the intersection of DeKalb and Second Streets. This July 26, 1960 Redwood Gazette photo shows how the future home of Sunwood appeared at the time. Source: Redwood Falls Gazette
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4 Backward classes panel wants quotas for non-income tax payers
The chairman of the National Commission for Economically Backward Classes, which gave its report this week after working on it for four years, has said EBCs, who number about 50-60 million, deserve the same concessions as given to scheduled castes and tribes. Source: Business Standard India
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5 ISA âbeyond repairâ, say groups
By Melissa Chi, The Malaysian Insider âIt has done the country a lot of bad because of the reputation it has given us. (Malaysia) is not a respecter of human rights and that puts us in the lead of a very backward country,â he said, calling the ISA a black mark for the country. âIt puts people in fear of speaking out even if they are speaking out for justice. It represses the people and the ... Source: Malaysia Today
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6 Plenty of good news, but hold the champers
Where's Cerberus when you need him? The mythical canine could look into the past, present and future with his three heads. That's a trick we could all use as we assess the contradictions between the Champagne-popping but backward-looking results season and the gloomier forward-looking surveys and comments stalling markets on both sides of the Atlantic. Source: Daily Telegraph
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7 Titan's giant sand dunes shaped by 'backward' winds, study finds
The odd equatorial sand dunes found on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, have been shaped by winds blowing in the opposite of the prevailing direction, new research finds. Source: The Christian Science Monitor
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8 If 2010 is indeed the priority, Red Sox could pay the price for standing still
How can anyone say the Red Sox were not busy bees at the trade deadline? In 2008, they dumped a Ramirez. In 2009, they acquired a catcher. On Saturday, they did both. And stood still, which is tantamount to falling backward. Source: The Republican
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9 Obama decries GOP over small business lending bill
WASHINGTON â President Barack Obama said Saturday that the GOP stance on a small business lending bill is proof the country "can't afford the do-nothing policies and partisan maneuvering that will only take us backward." Source: Houston Chronicle
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10 Lino Lakes takes a step backward
MANKATO â If you pass it, they won't come. Could that have been the intent of Lino Lakes passing an ordinance that makes English the only language to be used in city materials? Source: MinnPost
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