September 4, 2003

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Do you smell what I smell? On the morning of March 23, 1989, Exxon Shipping Company’s Valdez oil tanker was maneuvering through the Valdez Narrows, near Prince William Sound, Alaska. In order to go around an iceberg, the reportedly drunken captain...		Discovering morality A common conversation on moral responsibility starts by condemning a person for a certain cruel and immoral act, and the argument slowly makes its way to an almost opposite stance, i.e., that the person couldn’t help himself because of the particular combination...
Because we’re worth it Early this year, The Review addressed the issue of self-esteem in our cover story and I was pleasantly surprised by the sheer enormity of the responses we got in the form...		Restructuring the city of lights Karachi has been classified as the business capital of Pakistan. Whether that means that the city is ‘good for people’s business’ or ‘gives the nation good business’ remains...
Paradise in their eyes What distinguishes the above statements from those seen in the Pakistani and Indian media on the Kashmir conflict is that the writers here show some empathy for the people who are directly involved in the conflict. Seldom does one come....		A metallic affair Parallel rows of cramped shops line a cobbled grey alley that angles haphazardly. Corrugated tin roofs crowd together overhead, the Levi-blue Karachi sky is glimpsed only in patches. Sunlight barely reaches...
Iraqi resistance In the war on Iraq, Baghdad seemed to have fallen without much fight even though there was a lot of resistance against the US forces in Umme Qasr, Nasirriya, and Basra. The Republican Guards, charged with...		Water for life The word water is synonymous with life. Without water human existence is unthinkable. Although the earth’s crust is composed of 70 per cent water, recent studies have shown that only less than one per cent of fresh water is left for human consumption...
Educating the blind Running her fingertips over a perforated paper, Samina, skillfully feels the surface and needs only a split second to make sense of the raised dots. Her eloquence leaves one transfixed with disbelief as she reads out a couplet from Ahmed...		Common factor: pain Q :Are osteoarthritis and polymyalgia rheumatica different stages of the same disease? How are they diagnosed and treated? A :The two are not different stages of the same disease. They have nothing in....
Eight days A week Hollywood’s never been known to be very faithful to the original source when transporting a literary text to the big screen, but you would think that it would be unimaginable to make a movie about Sinbad without including...		Baking feast Doughnuts Ingredients: 1/2 kg flour 1 1/2 tbsp margarine 3/4 tsp salt...