Posted by: vinothifes on: March 26, 2010
The past two weeks have been emotionally fraught. My wife, Karin, was diagnosed to have a malignant tumour in the upper part of her colon. She had it removed within a week of discovery. She is recovering well from the surgery, but we await the pathologist’s report for her prognosis. It has come as a [...]
Posted by: vinothifes on: March 14, 2010
Two massive earthquakes have left a trail of devastation in South America. Haiti suffered an estimated 230,000 dead and 1.2 million homeless, but Chile was relatively unscathed in terms of human casualties (several hundred) despite experiencing a far more severe quake. What accounts for the huge difference? High population density and widespread poverty. The two [...]
