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There’s no harm in a bit of flirting. Don’t get me wrong, says Melissa Kite: I’ve no truck with genuine sexual harassment. I do object, though, to the way sleaze stories are portraying even minor acts of flirtation as uniformly sinister, and casting all women as helpless, “passive victims”. In my days as an ambitious …
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Here in the English speaking world, we’re all familiar of the tale of the city mouse and the country mouse: the city mouse invites the country mouse to his house. While containing riches beyond the country’s mouse’s dreams, it also contains terrifying dangers, like the cat. In the end, the country mouse decides his own …
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For the period of about a century, average IQ scores in wealthy nations kept rising by about three points a decade. This “Flynn effect” is thought to be the result of improvements in social conditions like public health, nutrition and education, and has been seen in many countries, from the Netherlands to Japan. But by …
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If you are flying off on holiday the airport is now, in all probability, the worst part of the experience (except the flight!). Profit is the motivation of the airport management, rather than security. Misery is the result. 1. More than half UK international airports lack free drinking water. Water fountains have been removed, forcing travellers …
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If you’re anything like me, you’re probably a very opinionated person. You will have views on all sorts of things, from the best flavour of ice cream to the true meaning of life. Now having such a vast array of opinions can be fun. It makes you a more interesting person, because you’ll have a …
