Đầu đàn – Leader of the pack

500 Greatest Songs of All Times

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Đây là bản hit nhạc pop số 1 vào năm 1964 của nhóm nhạc nữ người Mỹ Shangri-Las. Đĩa đơn này là một trong những bài hát nổi tiếng nhất của nhóm cũng như là một ví dụ văn hóa đại chúng về “bài hát bi kịch tuổi teen”.

Bài hát được George “Shadow” Morton, Jeff Barry và Ellie Greenwich sáng tác. Continue reading Đầu đàn – Leader of the pack

Unlearning

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Life has a lot of roughness – people cheating, backstabbing, betraying, badmouthing, oppressing, hitting each other on the head – so the older we are, the more we become rough as everyone else in the world.

That is a big problem: There is a natural tendency for all of us to become rougher with time.

That is why Jesus said: “If you want to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, be like children.” And Siddhartha taught that we are born with a Buddha heart, which becomes sinful as we grow up in an ignorant world. Continue reading Unlearning

‘Repaired’ HCMC road leaves houses flooded

All affected families petition UBND of HCMC to compensate them for “damages” to their homes from street repair works. If HCM City say “no” then they should think aout suing the City in Court. – PTH.

Phan Van Ket watches the waist-high water in the alley through the window of his house.

VNE – By Quynh Tran   November 20, 2023 | 09:17 am GMT+7

The “upgrading” of a street along Lo Gom Canal in HCMC’s District 8 has left its houses lower than the road level, meaning floods inundate the homes every time it rains.

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Climate change hits women’s health harder. Activists want leaders to address it at COP28

Mamta Kumari, a farm worker, takes a brief break between harvesting wheat on a farm in Nanu village in Uttar Pradesh state, India, on Oct. 17, 2023. As the annual U.N.-led climate summit known as COP is set to convene later this month in Abu Dhabi, experts are urging policymakers to respond to climate change’s disproportionate impact on women and girls, especially where poverty makes them more vulnerable. (Uzmi Athar/Press Trust of India via AP)
Mamta Kumari, a farm worker, takes a brief break between harvesting wheat on a farm in Nanu village in Uttar Pradesh state, India, on Oct. 17, 2023. As the annual U.N.-led climate summit known as COP is set to convene later this month in Abu Dhabi, experts are urging policymakers to respond to climate change’s disproportionate impact on women and girls, especially where poverty makes them more vulnerable. (Uzmi Athar/Press Trust of India via AP)

BY UZMI ATHAR, PRESS TRUST OF INDIA, AP, Updated 9:02 AM GMT+7, November 21, 2023

NEW DELHI (AP) — Manju Devi suffered in pain for two months last year as she worked on a farm near Delhi, unable to break away from duties that sometimes had her standing for hours in the waist-deep water of a rice paddy, lifting heavy loads in intense heat and spraying pesticides and insecticides. When that pain finally became too much to bear, she was rushed to a hospital.

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