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Published on Thursday, 12 March 2009 18:00 | 
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Jennifer Murray is rich, well connected and glamorous. She has been presented to the Queen and counts the Duchess of York among her friends. She’s also addicted to extreme challenges and in love with her tiny, cherry-red, Robinson R44 helicopter.
She describes learning to fly as changing her two-dimensional life into a three-dimensional one. ‘You are a bird, you can soar, you have the freedom of the sky,’ she explains, ‘and it’s intoxicating.’
Published on Tuesday, 10 March 2009 18:00 | | |
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Picking up the themes outlined by Foreign and Commonwealth Office minister Lord Malloch Brown, Gareth Thomas, minister of state at the Department for International Development, delves into the nitty-gritty of UK government policy on trying to prevent violent conflict in Afghanistan...
As all of you I’m sure will accept, conflict and poverty are inextricably linked, and unless we continue to seek to put in place effective conflict prevention strategies we’re not going to make the type of progress that we want towards achieving our goals on poverty.
Published on Thursday, 05 March 2009 18:00 | | |
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Our Sun may look like this one day? The Helix Nebula is one of the brightest and closest examples of a planetary nebula, a gas cload created at the end of the life of a Sun-like star.
Published on Sunday, 08 March 2009 18:00 | |
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A hedge fund trader parks his new Porsche in front of the office to show it off to his colleagues. As he's getting out of the car a lorry zooms past too close to the kerb. It rips off the door and speeds away. The distraught man grabs his mobile and calls the police. They arrive minutes later. Before the officer can ask any questions, however, the man starts screaming hysterically:
'My Porsche, my beautiful silver Porsche!’ the hedge fund trader rants. ‘ It's ruined. Even if I send it to the most skilled panel beaters in the world, it'll never be the same again!'
Published on Wednesday, 25 March 2009 18:00 | | |
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To anyone unfamiliar with the mind games, manipulations and deceptions of a drug addict, 'tough love' seems more tough than loving, says Clea Myers
To actually follow through on the 'tough love' approach, requires a steeliness most parents are incapable of.
Published on Wednesday, 18 March 2009 18:00 | | |
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A 'salt cave' has been set up in a former church in London offering a new treatment for asthma and allergy sufferers
Salt treatment has become
popular in many countries across
Europe, after it was discovered that Polish salt miners had fewer
pulmonary problems than other people. It is expected to be made
available on the NHS as an alternative to conventional treatment, often
involving steroids, which can have side effects.
Published on Saturday, 07 March 2009 18:00 | | |
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So says recently elected Maldives president, Mohamed Nasheed, as he takes active steps to rehome his people before rising seas threaten to engulf the islands.
With scientists estimating that sea levels will rise worldwide by up to 60 centimeters by the end of this century as a result of climate instability caused by rising carbon dioxide levels and melting ice sheets in Greenland, the forward thinking President is considering buying land in Australia, India and Sri Lanka to create a new homeland for his people before it’s too late.