Tips On Surviving The Jungle

By Tingting Cojuangco | June 1, 2003 - 12:00am

Tips in surviving the jungle" – this was the title of a two- minute teaser meant for children. It occurred to me that this teaser, like many children’s books, is so simple and yet so profound that...

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The sequel honors the original with charm, imagination

By Kevin Thomas | April 26, 2003 - 12:00am

Since its 1967 release, Disney has reissued The Jungle Book, inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s stories, many times, even making a live-action, direct-to-video sequel in1998. At last it has produced a big-screen,...

Vendor goes berserk, shot dead

April 13, 2002 - 12:00am

A 56-year-old vendor was shot dead in Barangay Commonwealth in Quezon City last Thursday after he allegedly went berserk and threatened his neighbors with a jungle bolo, the police said. Fatality Nilo Mabini, a...

Survival of the fittest?

By CHASING THE WIND | By Felipe B. Miranda | August 28, 2001 - 12:00am

The fittest, they say, survive. Since this view appears to be no less than a natural law, most of us easily subscribe to it. We go a step farther and hold that not only do the fittest survive, but that they ought...