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San Juan OKs random drug tests in all city schools
abs-cbn NEWS.com | 09/12/2008 9:13 PM San Juan City Council recently passed an ordinance authorizing the vice mayor and local health officers to conduct random drug testing among high school and college…
San Juan approves random drug test for students of public, private schools
Daily Tribune (http://www.tribune.net.ph/metro/20080913met3.html) 09/13/2008 After getting the unanimous support of both the public and private schools in the city, the San Juan City Council recently passed City Ordinance 39-2008 “authorizing the office…
A poet’s opinion regarding the soul
By William B. Burkholder Nature is a constant, in spite of our deaths life rolls on un-abated. We are but a universal flash in the pan. The universe is the environment of…
Three short Lyrical essays By William B. Burkholder
3 essays FALLIBLE MAN I am not to be emulated nor looked up to. My journeys have been ragged and lonely. No, do not emulate me I would not wish that on…
Reproductive health bill?
Reproductive health bill There appears to be three major points of view from which to approach the controversial reproductive health bill now pending with the House of Representatives for plenary deliberations, namely:…
Governor survives assassination attempt
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — BATANES Gov. Telesforo Castillejos and his driver were shot and wounded in a pre-dawn assassination attempt in Pasay City yesterday, police said. Gunmen attacked Castillejos while he was…
GMA scraps MILF panel, cancels US trip
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — PRESIDENT Arroyo has canceled her trip to the United States this month in light of renewed fighting in Mindanao and the possibility of further turmoil following the government’s…
Pacquiao joins Kampi
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — POPULAR Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao is the latest addition to the administration party Kabalikat ng Mamamayang Pilipino or Kampi. The Filipino boxing icon yesterday took his oath…
MILF recruitment ploy bared
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — MAJOR General Juancho Sabban, chief of the military’s Sulu-based Joint Task Force Comet, warned the public yesterday on the “deceitful recruitment strategy” of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front…
GMA dissolves peace panel
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — NOT only will the government no longer sign the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, it has dissolved its panel negotiating peace…
Subic hoteliers denounce US nat’l
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE – A Korean-born US national also wanted for several multi-million peso estafa cases in the country was booted out as tourist hotel operator here after failing to fulfill his…
CA row closure SC top priority
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE panel of former Supreme Court justices that investigated the alleged bribery scam involving the Manila Electric Co. formally submitted its findings and recommendations to Chief Justice Reynato…
Malacanang right to gag Neri upheld by SC
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — VOTING 9-6, the Supreme Court yesterday affirmed with finality its March 25 decision upholding President Macapagal-Arroyo’s use of executive privilege to prevent former National Economic Development Authority chairman…
Manny to fight Oscar
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE showdown many dismissed earlier as a dream fight is now about to become a reality. Boxing superstars Manny Pacquiao and Oscar dela Hoya are finally making their…