Sunday Newscape Magazine

"...we do act as if evolution stopped with us, that 'we're it,' the whole point of nature's four-billion-year effort on this particular planet. It would probably shift things to realize that maybe not be so. Maybe we're here to enable what comes next, and maybe our state of awareness will influence what comes next." ~ Presence pg 246

By looking at my picture you would not think anything out of the ordinary, but under those nice clothes was a secret I kept for nearly three decades. At the time those pictures were taken almost ninety percent of my body was covered with eczema.

As we mark the 35th anniversary of the fall of Saigon today, I vividly remember the chaotic and heartbreaking images of South Vietnamese men, women and children desperately clamoring up a ladder and reaching out to a dangerously overloaded American helicopter. Despairing people trying to leave their country as it was falling to the North Vietnamese.

NASA's recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is returning early images that confirm an unprecedented new capability for scientists to better understand our sun’s dynamic processes. These solar activities affect everything on Earth.

Geneva - With the shift of the armed conflict away from densely populated areas towards more remote regions, the plight of tens of thousands of people who still bear the brunt of the fighting has become almost invisible, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said today.

College-educated women earn less than men without similar training, students graduate high school unable to pursue college or a career, and more than 65,000 undocumented youths graduate high school each year only to face uncertain educational futures.