WE'RE NUMBER...15

What rich countries gave in foreign aid in 2208 as a percentage of GDP.

teenage drunkenness in 30 countries

From The Economist, 30 March, 2009

how do you solve a problem like communicating the true character of financial derivatives and other challenges for the new US president

A useful opinion piece by known lefty James Carville

15-year-olds + their electronic toys

The story is, this site was developed by a 15-year-old to enable users to stream and organize audio from YouTube directly to PCs. Conventional wisdom is you c heck it out before it disappears for the lack of blessings from Google, the record companies and the various rights holders to the songs.

Generation OMG

And this, from the New York Times writer Kate Zernike

a tidal wave of homeless students