While many students at Wake Forest enjoy the benefits of their respective GREEK organizations, almost half choose to remain independent during their ...
Welcome, 77 artists, 40 different points of Attica welcomes you by singing Erotokritos an epic romance written at 1713 by Vitsentzos Kornaros
Sunday, August 27, 2017
Gyroville to open in Southwest Topeka this week
The decision to offer fast-casual GREEK food is one that has been successful for the company that launched in 2010, Kurlander said. One focus of the ...
Cash set to flow again in Greece
Greece is to begin easing cash controls in its banking system on Friday, permitting customers to withdraw more of their savings. In a sign of growing confidence in the economy, the left-wing government is preparing to increase the monthly cap on ...
Revisiting Greek Myths
A voyage around Greek writing both ancient and modern. Kamila Shamsie talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new novel Home Fire, a pertinent and timely story of the two families torn apart by love and war, inspired by Sophocles's Antigone. It's one of a ...
Scorned by Europe, Greece embraces China’s patronage, but at what price?
ATHENS, Greece — After years of struggling under austerity imposed by its European Union partners and a chilly shoulder from the United States, Greece has embraced the advances of China, its most ardent and geopolitically ambitious suitor. While Europe ...
Warnings over shock dementia revelations from ancestry DNA tests
Companies have been told to accept moral responsibility and provide counselling for people who inadvertently discover health risks People who use genetic tests to trace their ancestry only to discover that they are at risk of succumbing to an incurable illness are being left to suffer serious psychological problems. Dementia researchers say the problem is particularly acute for those found to be at risk of Alzheimer’s disease, which has no cure or effective treatment. Yet these people are stumbling upon their status inadvertently after trying to find their Viking, Asian or ancient Greek roots. “These tests have the potential to cause great distress,” said Anna Middleton, head of society and ethics research at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Cambridge. “Companies should make counselling available, before and after people take tests.” The issue is raised in a paper by Middleton and others in the journal _Future Medicine_. Continue reading...
Greece Beat Targets for Deficit, Primary Surplus in Jan-July 2017, Data Shows
(ANA) – The Greek state budget deficit was some 930 million euros lower than targets for the seven-month period of January-July 2017, according to budget execution […] The post Greece Beat Targets for Deficit, Primary Surplus in Jan-July 2017, Data Shows appeared first on The National Herald.
