Darling and Brown - still muggers of the poor
Wed, 14 May 2008 04:17:50 -0700 (PDT)
Darling's emergency budget does little to offset damage to the lowly
paid.
Assume my yearly income is ¡ê13 335, the upper 10% tax threshold last
year.
After Darling's emergency budget tax now begins at ¡ê6035. Last year it
began at ¡ê5225.
So last year I would have paid tax (at 10%) of ¡ê811.
This year I wi ...
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It can be dangerous to visit the USA
Wed, 14 May 2008 02:31:10 -0700 (PDT)
NYT
May 14, 2008
Italian?s Detention Illustrates Dangers Foreign Visitors Face
By NINA BERNSTEIN
He was a carefree Italian with a recent law degree from a Roman
university. She was ?a totally Virginia girl,? as she puts it, raised
across the road from George Washington?s home. Their romance, sparked
by a ...
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Ten Plus One Facts About Hospice
Tue, 13 May 2008 23:01:06 -0700 (PDT)
1. Palliative Care means that a dying person is given care that is not
curative; that will not sustain life. It will however, ensure that
what life remains can be lived in comfort and without pain.
2. Hospice may be a place but is definitely a ?way?. It?s a method of
offering palliative care to the terminally il ...
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Science and religion?
Tue, 13 May 2008 07:49:52 -0700 (PDT)
NYT
May 13, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
The Neural Buddhists
By DAVID BROOKS
In 1996, Tom Wolfe wrote a brilliant essay called ?Sorry, but Your
Soul Just Died,? in which he captured the militant materialism of some
modern scientists.
To these self-confident researchers, the idea that the spirit might
exist apa ...
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Breast feeding helps raise verbal IQ
Tue, 13 May 2008 07:29:15 -0700 (PDT)
Breast-feeding raises children's IQs, study says
Children whose mothers took part in a program that encouraged the
practice had
higher verbal scores than children in a control group, a large study
finds.
By Denise Gellene
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 6, 2008
Increased breast-feeding during the fi ...
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Detecting subtle brain injuries that result from motor accidents
Tue, 13 May 2008 07:25:50 -0700 (PDT)
New MRI Technique Detects Subtle But Serious Brain Injury
ScienceDaily (May 13, 2008) - A new technique for analyzing magnetic
resonance
imaging data, developed by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical
Center, can
reveal serious brain injury missed by current tests and help predict a
patient's
degree of recove ...
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Einstein on religion
Tue, 13 May 2008 01:21:00 -0700 (PDT)
James Randerson, science correspondent
The Guardian, Tuesday May 13 2008
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
So said Albert Einstein, and his famous aphorism has been the source
of endless debate between believers and non-believers wanting to claim
the greatest scientist of ...
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Blasphemy to be made impossible in England
Sat, 10 May 2008 12:04:54 -0700 (PDT)
I see that the Blasphemy laws are to be repealed in the UK:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1942668/Blasphemy-laws-are-lifted.html
I think that this is a good move, for the reasons given. There is an
unfortunate side to it, though. If you enjoy blasphemy, you can't
indulge in it in the UK anymore, you have to ...
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The mystery of the Holy Shroud
Fri, 9 May 2008 22:23:55 -0700 (PDT)
The Holy Shroud in Turin is and remains a riddle, as honestly
recognised by the manager of the most important of the three
laboratories which analysed the cloth by using the carbon 14. This
manager acknowledged a serious mistake in the dating.
The only means we have at disposal to solve the riddle is that of
reco ...
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An American view of british Conservativism
Fri, 9 May 2008 06:06:32 -0700 (PDT)
NYT
May 9, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
The Conservative Revival
By DAVID BROOKS
For years, American and British politics were in sync. Reagan came in
roughly the same time as Thatcher, and Clinton?s Third Way approach
mirrored Blair?s. But the British conservatives never had a Gingrich
revolution in the 1990s ...
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