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Enlarging the family
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Is three the new two? Moves in France and elsewhere to stave off
population decline are drawing attention to the importance of bigger
families.
New Age alchemist turns words into money
The best-selling fable
The Alchemist contains the quintessence of Paulo Coelho's philosophy.
Cashing in on the rage for New Age
The ideas of New Age gurus are worse than twaddle about crystals and
dolphins: they’re appallingly self-centred. Take Paulo Coelho's latest
novel, for instance.
This health and safety stuff is pure bull
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Fussy Eurocrats and their regulations wouldn't get within a bull's roar
of the fiesta in a small corner of Spain in early September.
Forgetting the Holocaust
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The death this month of Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal reminds us that we
are still in danger of forgetting about the lessons of the Holocaust.
Maid in Taiwan
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Filipino women working overseas remit dollars back home and export Christianity to the country where they are employed.
Running out of self-esteem
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According to a 1960s brainwave, self-esteem will save the world from crime, drug abuse, underachievement and pollution. But the evidence is less and less convincing.
The incredible reappearing family dinner
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Don't sell the dinner table — family meals are making a comeback. There is even a book about their surprising power.
That elusive one per cent
Aceprensa
| 16 September 2005 |
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An international research team has finally sequenced the chimpanzee
genome and found a mere one per cent difference with the human genome.
Spanish geneticist Julio Coll explains the significance in an interview.
Project Benedict confounds German critics
World Youth Day in Cologne dumbfounded a sceptical German media. Here’s how an unassuming Pope tore up their agenda.
The mystery of Ireland’s youth suicides
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Ireland has the second-highest youth suicide rate in the world. The experts are scratching their heads about what to do.
Will Katrina survivors need brigades of grief counsellors?
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Along with the National Guard, an army of grief and trauma counsellors
is bearing down on the people uprooted by hurricane Katrina. But is
that what they really need?
Primate inter pares?
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The London Zoo has placed a new primate on display for its summer
tourists: homo sapiens. But does he belong behind bars with his monkey
cousins?
Diagnosing Down syndrome: please don’t say ‘sorry’
Doctors are getting better at telling parents their baby has Down
syndrome. According to research by a Harvard medical student, they need
to.
Stemming the tide of internet porn
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It's commonly thought that filtering objectionable sites and email from
the internet is virtually impossible. It's not true: we just have to
try.
