Lifestyle topics
A new prize is to be awarded to the country that has the most Epicurean public policies and seems to have the most content and happy population. This prize is initiated and funded by the well-known philanthropist, Marthe and Roberto Hanrotti, and will be presented to the President of the designated country at a lunch, …
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Twenty two million people visit the theatre in London every year – almost twice the number of people who attend a Premier League football match (for the few Americans not in the know, this refers to soccer, not American football!). You would never believe this if you paid attention to the media. Pages in papers …
As a profession, we doctors are guilty of exaggerating the benefit of medication and medical treatment. Instead of encouraging patients to change their lifestyle habits, we prescribe new drugs, even though four-fifths of them are copies of old ones. Instead of letting patients’ bodies recover in the course of time, we insist on subjecting them …
What gives a community vitality? Or maybe it would be helpful to list what robs it of vitality! (For the purpose of this post I am thinking of Europe and the United States): – the most dreadful thing that can happen to any community is the “gated community”. This involves self-segregation according to income and …
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It is Saturday and tomorrow I am supposed to be renting a car from National Car Rentals, picking it up on Sunday at a depot in West London. Realizing that I could not make it back in time next Friday I needed a time extension. So I phoned the company. Number unobtainable. Eventually, after searching …
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