By Karen Cole PeraltaWord count: 1000This article is about how ghost writing is a developable field. Most people seem to think it is solely about hiding the ghost writer, making money, or otherwise pushing around extremely talented writers. Seriously, it is about taking the work up for overburdened people at low prices so they can afford to be our clients and otherwise manage to keep the field of literature going in the face of “vanity publishing” - self publishing in other words.You might th... Read Full Story
Bio of RWI and its President, KLCRainbow Writing, Inc.Karen ColeExecutive Directorwww.rainbowriting.com By Karen ColeWord Count: 600 wordsKAREN COLE I have been on the Internet since 2003 as a ghost writer, rewriter, copy editor and proof reader of book manuscripts, and I have performed many other types of freelance and contracted writing jobs. I have a combined degree in journalism, creative writing and the fine arts, and have been creating and editing books, documents and papers for people ... Read Full Story
Like 57 million people in the U.S., Desiree is not allowed to earn any paid sick days at her job. So on Tuesday, she testified before a Senate Committee about her family's experience with getting the flu and not having any paid sick days:"Families like mine need to be able to earn paid sick days – so we don’t have to borrow from our rent money and go deeper into debt every time our kids get sick...having no paid sick days has really hurt our family’s finances and economic stability."The H1N1... Read Full Story
IPS NewsBy Wambi MichaelMary Yeko: "Where we were, the air is fresh, we had water, we had medicinal plants."Credit: Wambi Michael/IPS MOUNT ELGON, Uganda, Nov 13 (IPS) - "We have been reduced to begging from relatives and to migrate to urban areas where life is not safe. We were living in the mountain for more than 200 years. Transferring us means burying us, completely. We want to stay in our area and develop."These are the words of Mejje Christopher, a former parish chief who now lives as a... Read Full Story
By David A. SchwartzSouth Florida Sun-SentinelNovember 4, 2009Pope Pius XII has been called "Hitler's Pope" for his passivity and complicity in the Holocaust. Yet he was eulogized by Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and praised by Nobel scientist Albert Einstein and U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower.Pope John Paul II was lauded for his efforts in healing the rift between Jews and the Vatican. But scholars have questioned whether John Paul went far enough a decade ago in recognizing the roll o... Read Full Story
By Maggie Koerth"Mental floss"CNN.com Living(Mental Floss) -- You can keep your Bluebeards and your Blackbeards. The most successful pirate of all time controlled a fleet of more than 1,500 ships and upwards of 80,000 sailors -- and she did it all without the help of facial hair.Tall ships like the La Boudeuse used to face threats from pirates as they sailed around the world.When a Chinese pirate captain named Cheng married a beautiful prostitute in 1801, he wasn't just getting the girl of hi... Read Full Story
Journal "Ism" genre associated with Hunter S Thompsonaka [New Journalism]? (term associated more with Tom Wolfe)...is a highly subjective and extremely personal form of reporting...Gonzo is really an Italian word for absurdities - "gonzagas".A rambling rolling style of writing that sucks in the audience and makes the reader feel as if he or she is actually experiencing the action. Thompson's writing technique requires hands on experience. He lives what he writes. The technique compares to the... Read Full Story
ScienceDaily (Nov. 10, 2009) — The first human embryonic stem cell treatment approved by the FDA for human testing has been shown to restore limb function in rats with neck spinal cord injuries -- a finding that could expand the clinical trial to include people with cervical damage.In January, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration gave Geron Corp. of Menlo Park, Calif., permission to test the UC Irvine treatment in individuals with thoracic spinal cord injuries, which occur below the neck. Howe... Read Full Story
