“HELP! I DON’T KNOW WHAT to give my son now,” my friend, whom we shall call Precy, confesses. “He got a 95 in his report card this quarter, so we should celebrate.”
“I don’t want my child to waste time this summer,” says a reader I will call Maria. “Every morning, I would like her to go to computer class, followed by math. In the afternoon, she would also take science lessons, piano, and reading.
MANY computer companies claim that their products work miracles including, at times, the replacement of human beings. For instance, in distance learning, students and teachers seldom meet. They interact mostly through computers. To express emotions, they exchange smiley faces and other emoticons.
MANILA, Philippines—Because of dengue, malaria and other insect-borne diseases, many of us have little choice but to use pesticides. Pesticides are found in our air, water, soil and food sources.
MANILA, Philippines—By now, most of us already know about global warming and its present and future ill effects, fueled in part by efforts done by the recent Nobel Prize winners Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel in Climate Change (IPCC).
