About 60 % of the Government’s 1.8 million civil service employees will be eligible to retire over the next 9 years, and the Office of Personnel Management expects 40% to do so. Generation Y (whatever that is) is regarded as impatient, willing to take risks, intolerant of ‘inefficient’ organizations and does not like the idea …
The British government- only a Labour government could dream this one up – is about to offer a one-off payment of one hundred and twenty pounds to pregnant women to spend on fresh fruit and vegetables. The idea is to counter the rise in underweight babies that are being born. This trend is apparently caused …
In 1861 John William Colenso, Anglican Bishop of Natal, was translating Genesis into Zulu, and began to doubt the literal truth of the words he was translating. On further study he began to doubt the historical truth of all the first five books of the Old Testament. Much was newer than originally thought, the law …
In what way can you exemplify the "usefulness" –whichever way YOU may define it– of Epicureanism? –emphasizing friendship circles and limiting action to a very local level–tending to one’s (shared) garden and helping to build social capital among friends or maybe just acquaintances. –fostering tranquility based on understanding of how the world works, and not …
According to the Institute of Child Health, which followed 11,000 Brits born in 1970, those who drank heavily by their mid-teens faced social and medical problems, such as alcoholism, illegal drug use, mental illness, homelessness and criminal convictions, before they were 30. Recent British government figures show that 21% of those aged 11-15 now admit …
