Archive for December, 2006

2006 in Cities

Friday, December 29th, 2006

At Mark's request, here's a list of cities that I spent the night in during 2006... or at least the cities I remember. Seems really odd that I didn't spend a night in San Francisco this year but maybe that's right? Arlington, MA Bangkok, Thailand Chicago, IL Halifax, Nova Scotia Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), ...

Monica Yunus at the Nobel Peace Prize concert

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

This year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, Professor Mohammed Yunus, has a very talented daughter... Monica Yunus sings opera and is co-director of Sing for Hope. Here she is singing O mio babbino caro (Oh, my dearest Papa) from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi to her father at this year's Nobel Peace Prize ...

WorldChanging on Yunus

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

A great post from Alan AtKisson over at WorldChanging. Here's an excerpt: That 300,000 "Phone Ladies" now make good livings keeping people connected, that 85,000 beggars are now part of a program that teaches them how to swap out retail sales for the usual handout model of their special enterprise, that ...

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