Following the fatal shooting of three Muslim students near the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Fox News reported that their murder was “motivated by an ongoing dispute over a parking space, despite widespread speculation the victims were targeted by an avowed atheist because of their Muslim faith, police said.” Craig Hicks, who has …
Epicureanism is supposed to be a rational belief that disposes with the old wives tales and superstitions of the ages. But habit dies hard, and I have to tell you that this Epicurean still believes that problems come in threes, just as grandmother said they would. Today, snow is on the ground where I live, …
Good news! According to the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at the Taub Institute at Columbia University Medical Center, scientists found a direct link between memory loss and a specific part of the brain. They believe that memory decline can be reversed by a change of diet. A component of chocolate increases blood flow to the …
The British accent, which is the sexiest in the world, according to a new poll. In the Time Out survey of 11,000 people in 24 cities, 26.7% said the British accent was the most attractive, while only 7.7% plumped for the French one. (The Week) But which accent? Eliza Doolittle before she was schooled, or …
HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) continued to offer services to clients, even after they had been named by the United Nations for arms trafficking, for bribery, and for dealing in blood diamonds. HSBC’s Swiss clients included former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, former Tunisian president Ben Ali and current Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad, and politicians in Britain, …
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