By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
WHILE aware that health is wealth, in pursuit of worldly wealth we sacrifice our wellness, thinking that perhaps money can buy anything including fitness. But it can’t. Not really.
By Erik Larson, Bloomberg
“FORCES OF OPPOSITION bow down. You are single-handedly outnumbered.” That’s how one advertisement reads for a semiautomatic rifle made by Bushmaster, whose AR-15 is increasingly the gun of choice for America’s mass shooters, including the suspect in Sunday’s massacre at a gay dance club in Orlando, Florida. “Consider your man card reissued,” another one reads, the text adjacent to a black AR-15 against a stark white background. The bright red logo of the gun’s maker stands out: a red cobra coiled around a rifle, bearing its fangs.
MADRID — “Making parents out of our patients,” reads an ad in Madrid’s metro for one of Spain’s many fertility clinics that have opened their doors to husbands and wives, same-sex couples and single women thanks to lenient laws.
LIONSGATE’s family adventure Norm of the North is now in a Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and On Demand. Follow the adventures of Norm, a polar bear from the Arctic who happens to have some very unusual talents and has to head outside of his comfort zone to save his home. Norm embarks on an adventure in New York City with his lemming pals as they all try to stop greedy humans from turning the Arctic into a suburban neighborhood. He also makes some new friends along the way.
GRINDAVIK, ICELAND — On a recent weeknight Iceland’s top tourist attraction, the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, is packed with visitors wearing mud masks and quaffing local beer, contributing to a tourism surge that is helping to fix an economy wrecked by the 2008 financial crisis.
COMPETITION IS TOUGH among local and international cosmetics and skin care products in the Philippines. The folks behind Celeteque acknowledge this. To set itself apart from the bevy of beauty products, Celeteque, a Filipino brand under Unilab, emphasizes that it is “clinically tested and co-created by Filipino dermatologists with Filipino skin in mind.”
MT. PINATUBO erupted on June 15, 1991 — it was the second largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. The active stratovolcano straddles the boundaries of three provinces in Luzon: Tarlac, Pampanga, and Zambales.
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The Department of Social Welfare and Development, together with the Ayala Museum, Australian Aid, and World Bank Group, brings Malaya Kang Mangarap (Dreaming is Free), a photo exhibit and documentary screening showcasing family beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4P’s). The exhibit is on view until June 17, at the Ayala Museum, Makati Avenue cor. Dela Rosa Street, Greenbelt Park, Makati City. For inquiries, call Ayala Museum at (02) 759-8288 or e-mail hello@ayalamuseum.org.
LOS ANGELES — French video game giant Ubisoft is poised to satisfy a longtime geek fantasy by letting fans virtually join the crew of a Star Trek ship exploring the cosmos.
PARIS — Drinking very hot beverages “probably” causes cancer of the esophagus, the UN’s cancer agency said on Wednesday, while lifting suspicion from coffee if consumed at “normal serving temperatures.”
