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Brassed off with your spouse and wanting a divorce? A bit short of cash to pay for your wedding? Like a birthday party at other people’s expense? Then come to America, where the latest “in” thing is to have a fundraiser. A growing number of women, going through divorce proceedings, are running these fundraisers to …
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 …
Recently, the vice-chancellor of Oxford University, professor Andrew Hamilton, said the he should be able to charge more for tuition and pointed out that it costs £16,000 a year to educate a student at the university. £16,000? That’s $24,000. If it costs the latter to educate a student at Oxford, which still provides small group …
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The US educational system assumes that most children come from middle class families, where the parents are literate, read to their children, give ample support and believe in education. But poor children start nursery school with vocabularies half as large as more privileged children, so all the testing in the world will not make the …
Chinese couples who cannot have children (or second children, or more) have found a creative way of becoming parents and bypassing the US immigration laws in one fell swoop, another example of money talking. Through legitimate agencies these couples hire American women to serve as surrogates for their children, “designer” babies for China’s elite at …
