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Dan Agin: Armistice Day, the Great War, and Brains: A Tale of WoeWhat do we remember? Veteran's Day--November 11th--was once called Armistice Day, the day the mangled soldiers started coming home in 1918. The problem with war is that the men who declare and manage a war usually don't go to war. Had the politicians of various countries been obligated to live in ... |
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Christina Patterson: Why Negative Thinking Makes the World a Better PlaceSome years ago, I went on a "positivity" course. My sister had died, my father had died, and I'd had cancer, and a broken heart, and I wasn't, quite frankly, feeling that cheerful. Perhaps, I thought, I could brainwash myself into feeling a bit better. And so in a central London hotel, with cream ... |
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US House opens debate on healthcare billThe US House of Representatives opened debate on a sweeping reform bill that would spark the biggest healthcare changes in four decades, with a potentially close final vote expected later in the day ... |
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Brown floats global tax on banksGordon Brown raised the possibility of a global tax on financial transactions in a move that threatened to reignite international tensions over the regulation of the banking industry and upstage the Group of 20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors ... |
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Julia Moulden: Free Luxury: Help The Rich Learn To Live Like UsThe publications that are thriving these days are those whose readers are wealthy. New York Times columnist Roger Cohen, for instance, just wrote about Tatler, the gossip magazine about the lives of the very rich, which is doing well all over the world. I read the media favoured by the monied... |
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Rose Winters: Helping Children GrieveLosing a loved one is always hard. The emotional impact isn't lessened when loss happens to a child. Even though we understand that the death of a parent is one of the most traumatic events that can happen in a child's life, we often feel at a loss how to help. Our feelings of helplessness are in... |
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