| Oxygen bars pop up across France
PARIS: As oxygen bars begin to pop up across France, health authorities are beginning to question the merits or otherwise of sniffing O2.
Supposed to improve health and well-being, oxygen bars date back to the late
1990s, spreading from Canada to California and to Britain and Japan, in nightclubs, health clubs, airports or even trade fairs.
But Paris' first oxygen bar opened only last week. Flagged as "a revolutionary anti-fatigue, anti-stress and anti-depression concept", the city's maiden O2 bar is housed in an up-market beauty institute owned by no less than the wife of top French publicist and political "kingmaker" Jacques Seguela.
Seguela has been very much in the news recently for bringing together President Nicolas Sarkozy and his new wife Carla Bruni around a dinner table, a coup that comes almost three decades after helping propel leftwing leader Francois Mitterrand to the country's highest public office.
7 qualities you need to be a great parent to a preschooler
What's it really take to parent a preschooler? It's pretty simple, once you realize what kids this age can and can't do (and what sets them off and what keeps them happy!). Here are seven qualities that make it much easier to manage all that, and why they're so crucial when you've got an independent-minded, boundary-testing picky eater on your hands. Resolve .
Ruthless leader Raila Odinga battles to save 'rightful' victory
Nobody right now is better placed than Mr Odinga and his key ODM lieutenants... to do what the government is unable to do - save the country from total destruction and President Kibabki’s people from the threat of genocide," he wrote. "If their intervention can restore a peace the government is unable to, that will be the real demonstration of who has the people’s mandate." That decision could mean Mr Odinga returning to the opposition once more and fighting his adversary in Parliament, where he enjoys a commanding majority. But it would also mean for now putting aside a dream that he, his father and his followers have waited so long to realise. .
LOCAL ECONOMY: Staffing may have soft year Housing recovery's pace ...
Economists and employment consultants are predicting a soft year ahead for hiring in Las Vegas and Nevada, as sustained lethargy in the housing market combines with slow growth in the resort sector to cap expansion ambitions among area businesses. Researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas' Center for Business and Economic Research are forecasting 2.1 percent job growth for Southern Nevada in 2008, while analysts at the state's Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation said they expect job formation to clock in at 1.9 percent statewide next year. Those numbers are well below the state's 5 percent and 6 percent job-growth rates of 2005 and 2006, but they're an improvement on the 1 percent pace of recent months. The employment department isn't expecting a dramatic turnaround in job growth because economists there predict new jobs in residential construction will be hard to come by for much of 2008.
State Of The Union Address/Democratic Response Coverage - Monday ...
And I use that verb “see" deliberately. The last time anything like this happened, 1928, with Calvin Coolidge. There was, of course, no TV. No Mr. Coolidge's speech, then still known by its formal title, the President's Annual Message to Congress. It was nationally broadcast on radio as long ago as 1923. So that's the historical oddness of the thing, Mr. Matthews. Let's pick up on the point that I interrupted you at, at the start of the hour here, the idea that we may have just seen a vice presidential candidate walk in. CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC ANCHOR: Condoleezza Rice, despite the difficulties of this foreign policy, including the war, which is immensely unpopular—a very small number of Americans like the war in Iraq or the decision to go to war in Iraq—Condoleezza Rice has escaped largely unscathed by that.
Former lawmaker to open cultural fest
Staff Reporter
FORMER Indian parliamentarian and popular orator M P Abdul Samad Samadani will inaugurate "Kalolsavam 2008", an arts and cultural festival, being hosted by Kozhikode chapter of Kerala Muslim Cultural Centre Qatar (KMCC Qatar), at Shantiniketan Indian School.
According to the organizers, the main aim of the "Kalolsavam" was to bring out the inborn talents of expatriate Indians, who they said were running out of opportunities.
The celebrations feature a light and sound show, depicting the story and contributions of minorities in India. It will be held at five different stages, simultaneously.
The organisers said the show would feature the scenic beauty of Kerala, the Taj Mahal, Qatab Minar and also the past and present of politics of minorities in India.
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