| |  Castles in the Air by Valerie Sartor
As of May 1, 2008 stricter anti-smoking regulations went into effect around Beijing in accordance with international treaties that guarantee a smoke-free Olympics. Earlier, in 1995 and 1996 the People's Congress established the first set of la | |
| |  Beauty or the beast: Notes on glorified anorexia by Alexander Mikhaylov
You know what? I think there is something wrong with my head. I came to this poignant conclusion when I realized that… Well, come on! Let us say it aloud, like a brave guy: I DO NOT LIKE THIN WOMEN! I do not like beefy men either, but since | |
| |  What does it mean to be an American? by Leah Sellers
I am an American - a teacher - an artist. So, why am I living in a tent in the woods?As a teacher, an idealist, I have struggled for many causes during my lifetime. I believe in standing up for and struggling for principals or situat | |
| |  Betting on addiction by Asa Butcher
There is rarely a news story that jumps out and waves its arms for attention, but this week I couldn't fail to overlook YLE Online News' headline "Finns Lose Millions in Online Poker to Foreign Firms Yearly". Look again at the he | |
| |  Death of the behemoth: An essay on smoking by Alexander Mikhaylov
Apparently, this animal has never suffered from a lack of publicity. Soviet military complexes, US military complexes, and now even ‘Phillip Morris’ corporation were all called a ‘behemoth’ at least dozen times. Speaking of | |
| |  The Cradle Project by Alexandra Pereira
The Cradle Project seeks to fill an abandoned warehouse (former train station) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with one thousand cradles and cribs made by artists from around the world, in June 2008. | |
| |  Chile - The health of the Nation by Newropeans-Magazine
Alvaro Vargas Llosa, in the quarterly newsletter of Washington's Independent Institute, recently joined (February 7) the increasing cynicism about Chile's success story with an article that started by saying: "Chile's economy is t | |
| |  Do girls have willies? by Asa Butcher
I have a problem, which began last weekend when I took my two-and-half year old daughter swimming. We had just finished a marathon splashing session and had returned to a private cubicle in the changing room. I dried an | |
| |  My Cancer and The Others by Thanos Kalamidas
If I'd written about World Cancer Day a few years ago it would have been quite different from my thoughts today and I would have definitely focused more upon the stats and the warnings. I would definitely have overlooked the human part, but | |
| |  Spinaloga: The graveyard of Hansen's disease by Thanos Kalamidas
Off the shores of Crete there is a small island that symbolizes a very old embarrassing story, not only for Greece, but for the whole world and that’s why you will not find long reports or historical facts in any encyclopedia. Spinaloga is a | |
| |  A Healthy Argument by Asa Butcher
There is a sage piece of advice often handed out to newly-weds: Don't go to sleep on an argument. I totally agree, especially since it is far comfier to go to sleep on a bed. Seriously, according to recent research, it now appears that the adv | |
| |  Paz, Pao, Saude, Educacao by Luis Alves
O início de 2008 tem sido marcado pelo encerramento de vários serviços de saúde por todo o país, gerando protestos das populações contra estas medidas governamentais. Num pa | |
| |  Forgiveness by Jack Wellman
When I saw an old acquaintance of mine from my High School days, I waved but inwardly stewed. I just could not forgive that man…for changing my life, destroying my car and my insurance rating…many, many year | |
| |  Where there's smoke by Asa Butcher
According to the Finnish National Rescue Association and Finland's Safety Technology Authority, 90 people died in fires last year, which is a 23% decrease from 2006's 118 fatalities. Those aged between 40 and 60 | |
| |  China and Food: Gobbling up the Goodies by Valerie Sartor
Everything in China is in a state of transition. The Chinese government is enacting new legislation; people are migrating to better jobs; young people soaking up western culture via the Internet and family dynamics are evolving into new patterns. | |
| |  Greek report by Euro Reporter
A DilemmaGreece’s leading transport experts are divided over whether politicians should risk unpopularity and introduce congestion charges in cities that suffer traffic problems. A professor has said that any “poli | |
| |  America's Workman Compensation: The Nation's Good Samaritan? by Leah Sellers
The Good Samaritan is a metaphor and story that warmly resonates within the hearts and minds of most Americans. What have I learned this past year about the concept of the Good Samaritan within our present Workman's Compensation system? That i | |
| |  Is there a way we can become immortals? by Akli Hadid
I remember a case when an old man put his dead wife in a freezer instead of burying her. He thought science would one day be able to resuscitate her. That sparked a debate concerning whether or not we could one day become immortals. | |
| |  Remember AIDS by Thanos Kalamidas
The word 'AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)' appeared in our vocabulary sometime in early eighties and since then it has killed over 30 million people. AIDS, despite its controversy in the beginning, doesn’t recognize sex, e | |
| |  World Diabetes Day by Thanos Kalamidas
According to the World Health Organization, in 2006 at least 171 million people were diagnosed as suffering from diabetes. Diabetes in one of the top five most significant diseases and, in combination with the other | |
| |  Chinese toying with the Olympics by Thanos Kalamidas
Another blow for Chinese toys manufactures was the latest news from the USA and Australia with the recall of millions of toys due to a drug contained in the coating of the toys. I decided to check in my daughter’s room, not to make sure what | |
| |  Empty arms, shattered dreams by Asa Butcher
Here at Ovi magazine we are an emotional group of people, with acute awareness and sensitivity for many global issues. Our heightened conscience has inspired us to fight against the abuse of the environment, inexcusa | |
| |  One horrible day by The Ovi Team
One of the Ovi team has been brave enough to share her own painful experience of a recent miscarriage with us and we present it below.* * * * * * * * * I cannot express how pleased my husband and I were w | |
| |  World Day for Organ Donation and Transplantation by Jack Wellman
What would drive people to sign up to donate organ(s)? Plenty! | |
| |  Sunday plans changed by Asa Butcher
Last Sunday was a day that I would dearly like to forget and pretend never happened, yet my enthusiasm for sharing a story and writing for Ovi could never let any part of my life remain private for too long, so prepare for a candid insight into Su | |
| |  Health care by Judy Eichstedt
Imagine your child is crying because he or she does not feel well. Your child has a fever and is throwing up. You walk the floor; child in arms doing your best to comfort the child but nothing seems to work. A cold towel is placed on the child | |
| |  Wireless by Jan Sand
In the latter part of the 1930s, Astounding Science Fiction Magazine acquired a new editor, John W. Campbell, whose outstanding accomplishment was to put together a team of contributing writers that created a golden age of science fiction | |
| |  Elogio Sociologico da Cultura das Saunas na Finlandia by Alexandra Pereira
A nudez torna os homens mais iguais entre si: expõe fragilidades (as nossas e as dos outros, de mulheres e homens, crianças e velhos de todas as raças, eunucos, doentes, deficientes), não deixa que as posses materiais se interp | |
| |  The joy of motherhood by Thanos Kalamidas
A woman’s pregnancy should never become a media case with analysts spending their time writing about it. On the contrary, it should be seen as a positive act against the aging population of Europe and America, furthermore how this woman conc | |
| |  The disabled reality by Thanos Kalamidas
It is a really long time since I saw a film that I value a lot and was one of the first movies that I bought on VHS. It is a very dark film that often crosses the line of a dramatic biography to a nightmarish and oft | |
| |  Information saves lives by Thanos Kalamidas
Sometimes it is easier to write about international peace than to write about an event that has touched you personally. Before I started writing this article, I spent quite a long time thinking about what I was going to write and then after having | |
| |  28 days of life by Amin George Forji
The World Health Organisation (WHO) in partnership with nine other organizations released the results of their recent study on infant mortality in Africa in a report titled: Opportunities for Africa’s newbo | |
| |  Incapacitated by Asa Butcher
Way, way back in time, before the first creatures crawled out of the oceans and decided to develop lungs, there were only single cell organisms bereft of any bones and they were called invertebrate. Now, you may not know this, but my family line d | |
| |  Massaging the mind by Asa Butcher
"Please take off your clothes," the masseur instructed as he entered the dimly lit room, its walls adorned with warm yellow curtains. Thankfully, I had been warned by my family, also previous customers, tha | |
| |  Is my life going up in smoke? by Richard Berman
Here I am trying to work out why I smoke, calculating that over the last 17 years - 6205 days - I have smoked around 160,000 cigarettes, 8,000 packets and at a cost of about 32,000€, why? All those other things that I could have done w | |
| |  Life after death by Asa Butcher
"Why the hell does the world need a dedicated day for people to donate their pipe organs, electronic organs or any other keyboard instruments? Is there a global shortage of the piano's frumpy cousin that I don't know about? How can I | |
| |  Become an organ donor by Thanos Kalamidas
Every day over 100 people die internationally while waiting for an organ transplant and every five minutes somewhere in this world someone is added to one of the national organ transplant waiting lists. | |
| |  Skydive for cancer: The aftermath by Tony Butcher
Last weekend I had the experience of a lifetime. So many people that I spoke to in the lead up to my Skydive said it was something they would never do - do not be so quick to rule it out too. | |
| |  Unripe cherries by Amin George Forji
BBC Radio 1, in conjunction with Durex, BBC 1 Xtra and MTV, has just released the results of the BareAll06 online survey. The BareAll06 campaign was launched on Monday, 22nd May, to run throughout the summer. It wa | |
| |  Malaria on the back foot? by Amin George Forji
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have announced the production of a new vaccine, which they claim can combat the most severe form of malaria that, until now, has been very difficult to treat, hence claimi | |
| |  Biblical beatings for babies by Asa Butcher
Forget the Koran as the most misinterpreted religious text of our time because the Bible is still firmly on the scene. It is now being used to excuse the chastising of babies and small children with a nine-inch long | |
| |  I Spy E by Asa Butcher
Ears, usually found secured to each side of the head and occasionally on the back of a mouse, are an ingenious device that have a variety of uses, aside from hearing stuff that goes on around you. They stop hats and | |
| |  Skydive for cancer by Tony Butcher
Standing at the edge of an aeroplane’s door, looking down 10,000ft (3048m) at terra firma whipping past is probably a good time to start reflecting on life. Fortunately, I will have a parachute attached to my b | |
| |  Toxic waist by Jan Sand
Modern life has presented many threats to humanity. When added to the standard ammunition humanity has to shoot itself in the foot, our progression in technical capability represents an accumulation of direness that | |
| |  World Suicide Prevention Day by Asa Butcher
One of the most shocking images of September 11th, 2001, was watching workers inside the World Trade Center take their life into their own hands by choosing to jump to their death. The two women holding hands, the m | |
| |  Delivering the goods by Asa Butcher
Last month Thanos was taken by surprise at my review of a board game. Well this month I felt a profession deserved an iKritic, so midwifery goes under the microscope. Over the course of a week staying in hospital with my wife, I met a number of di | |
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