Talent & time By Al S. Mendoza WE have the talent but, unfortunately, not the time to produce wonders on the world stage. Talent alone is not enough. Time is talent’s twin brother always. The San Miguel-Pilipinas Team was oozing with talent but, alas, it didn’t have time to make…
Goodbye By Eva C. Visperas It has always been music to my ears every time I heard people say they always looked forward to reading this paper, including this section. That gave me so much encouragement to always do better, write better in succeeding columns. I felt good each…
Strength By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. In general, strength is an asset—a potential for doing well, a capacity for doing good. This is true for physical, intellectual or emotional strength. The same is true for economic and/or political strength. It is especially true of moral strength which is the…
Embryo transfer in goats successful at CLSU-SRC By Sosimo Ma. Pablico Researchers of the CLSU Small Ruminant Center (SRC) and the Philippine Carabao Center have successfully shown that embryo transfer could be done in goats. Despite a minimal budget of PhP350,000 for four years since September 2005, the SRC embryo…
When will we ever learn? By Jesus a. Garcia Jr. BASKETBALL lovers who followed the stints of our national squad during the FIBA-Asia Olympic Qualifying Championship in Tokushima, Japan held recently saw how our Asian neighbors Iran and Jordan humiliated and ousted us from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It…
Rain dance By Marifi Jara As an enthusiastic gardener, I have been devotedly praying for a constant dowse of rain from the heavens. I’ve even had tempting thoughts of organizing a community rain dance in our barangay using indigenous Philippine musical instruments. I think it would be an equally enjoyable…
Our real, not reel, “Pinoy brothers” By Emmanuelle THE biggest Fil-Chinese federation builds schools for the barrios the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (FFCCCII), to date, is a network of 170 chambers of commerce and trade and business associations all over the country. It is the…
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POLICE FAILS TO ARREST SUSPECTS Mapili refuses to surrender 3 bodyguards LINGAYEN–The police is prepared to throw the books at Mayor Carlos Mapili of Tayug if he continues to coddle his three bodyguards believed involved in the slaying of a passenger van dispatcher and the wounding of a tricycle driver…
SAN MANUEL– “ Don’t panic.” This was the message of Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap to the people in the Ilocos region over the dry spell being experienced in the area over the last few weeks. Yap, in a talk to newsmen during his visit of the San Roque Dam Monday,…
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