Rev. Danny Fisher

CBS News has an interactive timeline of events (up to this morning, in fact) related to the Georgia-Russia conflict that is extremely helpful if you’d like to know more about what’s happening in the region.

The Boston Globe today has a piece about Burma’s Irrawaddy Delta, noting that while the region “seems to have avoided mass starvation and epidemic, and people are rebuilding their precarious lives,” it has nonetheless become “a flat, dark expanse of ruin populated by dazed survivors, unburied bodies and visions of wandering, moaning ghosts.”

The Associated Press is reporting that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace laureate and Burma’s Prime Minister-elect, failed to pick up food delivered to her home, where she has spent 13 of the last 19 years under house arrest. The failure to make the pick-up has fueled speculation that she may have begun a hunger strike. Suu Kyi also recently refused to meet with U.N. special envoy Ibrahim Gambari during his visit to Burma.

Via Wildmind Buddhist Meditation: The U.S. military is spending $4 million to figure out “whether New Age practices and holistic therapies can mend the wounded psyches of its troops,” according to an article in today’s Hartford Courant. This would encompass a fairly wide range of practices and techniques, “from yoga, to Reiki, to animal assisted therapy, to transcendental meditation.”