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THIS country’s history is pockmarked with events of opposition and toppling down of governments, so much so that people are tiring of it as the method of choice when dealing with undesirable political incidents.

Habang hitik ang usapan ukol sa tape na naglalaman ng di umano’y pandaraya ni Pangulong Arroyo sa nakaraang eleksyon, mahalaga rin na mabigyan ng pansin ang isa pang uri ng “tape” na matagal nang salot ng ating bayan. Ang “red tape.”

Gaano ba katagal ang pagkuha ng munting driver’s license?

TWO weeks after Pope Benedict XVI lifted the five-year waiting period before starting a beatification process, his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, is on his way to possible sainthood after an edict was issued calling for testimonies proving the virtues of the late pope.

The edict, signed by Camillo Ruini, vicar of the Diocese of Rome, was published on May 18 in response to the flood of requests to make the late pontiff a saint.

The edict will be posted on the headquarters’ doors of the Diocese of Rome and Krakow, Poland for two months.

SOME 42 UST students helped build houses in Quezon Province last May 23 to 25 upon an invite from a non-government organization (NGO).

Gawad Kalinga, a Manila-based NGO, invited the University to take part in the reconstruction of houses in Gen. Nakar in Quezon, a town that suffered massive devastation from typhoons Winnie and Yoyong last December.

National Service Training Program chief Dr. Lito Maranan said the students fully participated, but some of them were brought to the hospital due to urinary tract infection and gastritis.

A RENOWNED Thomasian artist along with his children successfully held an art exhibit at the Philippine Center in New York last May 23 to June 3.

Edgar Doctor and his four daughters—Amihan, Lualhati, Luningning and Yasmin—had their paintings, photographs, sculptures and jewelry designs on display. Edgar and Amihan are UST alumni, while Yasmin is a Journalism senior at Faculty of Arts and Letters. Lualhtati and Luningning are from Ateneo de Manila University and De La Salle Univesity.

A FOSSIL discovery may have solved a major evolutionary puzzle as scientists may have found the link between carnivores and herbivores among the dinosaurs.

The fossils of Falcarius utahensis, believed by scientists to be the missing link of the two distinct dinosaur classes, was found in a remote mountainous region in Utah early this May.

HOUSTON, we have a visual.

The first planet ever found orbiting a star outside the solar system has recently been photographed.

First discovered in 2004, planet 2M1207b orbiting its sun in the constellation Hydra (about 200 light years away), was photographed by the Very Large Telescope of the Paranal Observatory in Chile last April 30.

A gas giant, the planet orbits its sun at a distance of about five billion miles, or roughly twice the distance Neptune orbits the sun.

ThE BANANA is one of the Filipino’s palate-pleasers, and so is the burger. Now try imagining the two together.

Musa balbisiana, also known as the local saba, is a good source of crude fiber, which can be used in enhancing the taste of beef burger patties, an undergraduate thesis by four food technology graduates suggests.

less than a square inch and no thicker than a mouse pad, this device is capable of storing a full-length movie.

Say hello to a souped-up version of the multimedia memory card (MMC) used in most cellular phones today.

According to Jonathan Kendrick, chair of the London-based ROK Entertainment Group, his company has developed an encrypting process that can shrink a full-length movie and other media like pictures and music into an MMC.

SOON you can drive safely at night, thanks to Thomasian Arjay Tuazon.

A College of Fine Arts and Design graduate, Tuazon has conceived of a modular traffic cone that has white reflectors for night traffic. Tuazon, who drives to school, experienced accidents caused by troublesome traffic barriers and problematic road signals. Thus he decided to design improved traffic cones for his thesis.