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There must be something I don’t understand. The prime authors of Gross National Happiness speak as follows about culture: “The key importance of culture includes: to instill values for the full development of human beings, to meet spiritual and emotional needs, to temper the pace of modernisation and the negative impacts of globalisation, to safeguard …
A report from England: Young couples who send explicit, e.g naked, pictures of each other are being threatened with prosecution under child sex laws. Anyone under 18 “sexting” (texting sexually explicit pictures) could be committing an offence, despite 16 and 17-year-olds being legally old enough to have sex, police said. Det Sgt Jan Rusdale, from …
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A battle over gun politics that first put the store chain Target in the crosshairs in Texas has begun to spread around the United States. Recently, several people have openly carried handguns into Target stores in Virginia and Oklahoma and posted pictures of themselves on Target’s Facebook page, responding to mounting pressure on Target by …
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There is a new type of iPad-based cash register. When customers pay with a credit card, the cashier flips the iPad around so they can swipe their cards. Before they can sign their names, they’re presented with a screen that suggests tip amounts. You physically have to hit “no tip” — and feel guilty — …
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Boys with sisters are approximately 13% less likely to do the dishes than boys with brothers. (The Atlantic, 28 June 2013) What’s the point of having a sister if you have to do the dishes? Epicureans believe that everyone should do what they are best at. (Joke! Joke! Don’t get excited)
