Live while you are alive
War, he sung, is toil and trouble, Honour but an empty bubble, Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying, Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the Gods provide thee. War he sung. . . da capo From Dryden’s …
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To keep their mental faculties intact, older people should take up video gaming. Research in the US has shown that playing fast-paced multi-tasking games boosts the cognitive abilities of older adults – and the effect is long-lasting. For the study, volunteers aged between 60 and 80 were asked to play a car-racing game that involved …
I am a conservative. A true conservative. These are the things I want to conserve: – Social Security payments, so that the elderly are guaranteed financial help when they stop working. – Medicaid, so that poor people will not die for want of medical help. – Medicare, so that older people are cared for in …
There are about 400,000 kids in foster care in the United States. Many of them are subject to being moved around arbitrarily to different foster homes and have already suffered from parental drug abuse, domestic and sexual abuse, and poverty. In Los Angeles, for instance, there are only about 3,000 foster homes. About five years …
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A global survey of 156 countries, conducted between 2010 and 2012 by the Earth Institute, shows that Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Sweden are the world’s happiest countries. People in Rwanda, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Benin and Togo are the least satisfied with their lives. The United States came in at number 17 …
