Noseweek.com: news about South Africa
July 28, 2008
Wanna know what’s happening of socially and politically “unproper” in South Africa? Visit Noseweek!
International Criminal Court Website
July 28, 2008
Visit the International Criminal Court Website:
The Wisdom of Crowds
July 28, 2008
Quite unbeliavable, but it seems that experts are regularly “beaten” by a common crowd when committed to produce an extimation or conjecture.
James Surowiecki deeply explains this theory in his wonderful book “The wisdom of crowds” – which we highly recommend to your attention.
You can visit the Iowa Electronic Markets website www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem to introduce yourself to the matter…
Ingrid Betancourt free!!!
July 2, 2008
Colombia announced Wednesday that it had rescued former (2002) presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt together with 14 other prisoners held by the FARC rebel group, a Marxist-inspired army which has been fighting the Colombian government for more than four decades.
The rescue operation comes after the killing and capture in recent months of several senior commanders of the FARC and was carried out Wednesday in Guaviare, a jungle region in south-central Colombia.
Hopes for the hostages’ freedom had increased after the death or surrender of several top leaders in recent months including death for natural causes of FARC’s senior leader Manuel Marulanda, who built the Marxist rebel army from the remnants of a rural guerrilla group.
Today the FARC remains Latin America’s largest insurgency, with about 9,000 fighters.
