Thought for today
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” James Baldwin, writer.
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How big international companies escape public scrutiny
Accenture Consulting is an example of how big companies are shedding national identities and becoming unaccountable. Originally, Anderson Consulting, Acenture is now domiciled in Ireland (low tax), and has a series of loosely connected regional hubs, such as Prague and Dubai that also have low tax rates. To avoid residency problems for its 373,000 employees …
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Are cellphones damaging our collective posture?
The next time you reach for your phone, remember that it induces slouching, and slouching changes your mood, your memory and even your behaviour. The average head weighs about 10 to 12 pounds. When we bend our necks forward 60 degrees, as we do to use our cellphones, the effective stress on our neck increases …
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The price of religion?
The spectre of civil war is looming over India. Over recent months there has been a “steady stream of lynchings” of Muslims by Hindu nationalists. These attacks are not just individual tragedies; they’re an assault on the whole notion of India as a democratic nation where people of all faiths and ethnicities mix in harmony. …
Good news: slowly we are seeing the end of smoking
Smoking is rapidly dying out in the UK and US among young people – the first generation to come of age surrounded by laws that discourage smoking. Figures from the UK Office for National Statistics reveal that the proportion of smokers in the country fell to 15.5 per cent in 2016, down from about half in …
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