By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz
WE KNOW of agimat and anting-anting — Filipino amulets or talismans — as those metal trinkets sold outside Quiapo church whose vendors claim have a variety of powers. But there is so much that we don’t know about them. What do those figures and symbols mean? What is their place in the story of the country?
SETH WEINTRAUB has made a career of reporting on Apple. His Web site, 9to5mac.com, is one of the go-to places for news about the company. But in an ironic twist, a feature tucked inside Apple’s latest software for the iPhone and iPad threatens to undermine the way his site makes money.
By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz
HOW MANY YEARS should one believe in a dream without knowing if it will ever come true?
Movie Review
By Michael Roddy, Reuters
Everest
Directed by Baltasar Kormakur
THE HIGH-ALTITUDE thriller Everest, which opened the Venice Film Festival earlier this month, should warn a lot of people off mountain climbing.
AN INCREASING challenge which must be squarely dealt with by numerous countries and territories which are seeking to bridge and close the immunization gap is that of groups of citizens and people who choose to delay or intentionally refuse vaccinations for themselves or for their children.
THE PHILIPPINE Society of Medical Oncology said that breast cancer is so common in the Philippines that one in every 13 Filipinas is expected to develop it in her lifetime. Moreover, the Philippines has been identified as among the having the highest incidence rate of breast cancer in Asia.
IT HAS BEEN 16 years, but GMA actor Rocco Nacino can’t help but weep whenever he remembers the day his mother, Linda, was diagnosed with breast cancer.
DAIRY QUEEN, the ice cream seller owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., offered actress Emily Blunt free food and desserts for life after she was baffled by the DQ acronym during a television appearance.
WASHINGTON — Rising temperatures at the top of the world may be bad news for Arctic denizens like polar bears, but good news for the local mosquitoes, pesky bloodsuckers that prosper with warmer weather.
