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Weakening the rights of children
Gerald Mercer | 28 October 2005
Sure, adults deserve to have their fundamental human rights protected.
But why don't we set the same standard for their children?
Another side to African debt relief
Eugene Agboifo Ohu | 28 October 2005 | 1
Despite the well-publicised generosity of the G8 countries in forgiving
US$18 billion of their country's debt, ordinary Nigerians are not
rejoicing.
The noble art of statesmanship
Carolyn Moynihan | 28 October 2005
If one is looking for a model statesman, it is difficult to go past
Thomas More, the English Lord Chancellor who lost his head for
resisting Henry VIII.
Why do science?
Carolyn Moynihan | 22 October 2005
The West is losing its scientific lead in the world and governments
are looking for ways to attract more young people to the laboratory. But can
they succeed against the attractions of a consumer society?
Jurassic theories
Michael Cook | 21 October 2005
An expert on dinosaurs claims to have delivered a killer blow to the
credentials of religion by examining international health statistics.
It's not very convincing.
A challenge for Filipino families
Leo R. Maliksi | 21 October 2005
Calls to limit population growth in the Philippines are misguided, says
a leading economist in an exclusive MercatorNet interview. Big families
are the ultimate resource.
Your gender is not an accident
Carolyn Moynihan | 15 October 2005 | 37
The idea of medical intervention to change one's sex has gained
credibility in recent years. Dr Rick Fitzgibbons thinks that it has
been a great mistake.
Dont get stuck on stupid, media
Michael Cook | 15 October 2005
Why did a credulous American media believe the grim fairy tales of
murder, rape and pillage in New Orleans even though there was precious
little evidence for them?
Enlarging the family
Carolyn Moynihan | 30 September 2005
Is three the new two? Moves in France and elsewhere to stave off
population decline are drawing attention to the importance of bigger
families.
Cashing in on the rage for New Age
Michael Cook | 29 September 2005
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
William Keenan | 28 September 2005
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.
Running out of self-esteem
Carolyn Moynihan | 23 September 2005
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.
Maid in Taiwan
Leo R. Maliksi | 23 September 2005
Filipino women working overseas remit dollars back home and export Christianity to the country where they are employed.
Forgetting the Holocaust
Michael Cook | 23 September 2005
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.
The incredible reappearing family dinner
Carolyn Moynihan | 16 September 2005
Don't sell the dinner table — family meals are making a comeback. There is even a book about their surprising power.
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