Welcome to the ezine produced by SGI Buddhists that prompts the positive, kindles the constructive, highlights the hopeful and leaves you feeling - well, up!
Published on Saturday, 16 February 2008 14:34 | | 
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Daniel Barenboim, the world-renowned Israeli pianist and conductor, is equally as famous for his efforts to bring Palestinians and Israelis together through music.
By Geraldine Royds
Published on Monday, 31 March 2008 19:00 | | |
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Looks like Julia might have a point about the dangers of WiFi, says Phil Becque. Just when you thought it was safe to become a planet-hopping space cadet, it turns out that electrons (of all things) pose a real danger in the radiation belts that surround planet Earth. In case you didn't know, electrons are the subatomic particles, that, when suitably directed, make every modern gizmo work - from iPods & iPhones to washing machines and high-speed trains. If you are a jobbing electronics engineer like me, to be told they might be dangerous is like being told that your well-trained, perfectly behaved pet chihuahua has morphed into gigantic white shark, with the appetite of a killer whale! 
Published on Monday, 18 February 2008 11:27 | | |
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As you dash outdoors in the middle of winter, you might make it
halfway down the street before realising that your ears are freezing
because you forgot your hat.
Now, scientists have shown that even though you've had an apparent memory lapse, your brain never forgot what you should have done.
Published on Tuesday, 25 March 2008 04:00 | | |
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Tolle suffered from debilitating anxiety and depression for many years until one day he decided he could no longer live with himself. Then he had the sudden realisation that if he couldn’t live with himself there must be two of him. This realisation launched him on a profound journey in which he discovered his other ‘eternal’ self. It’s uplifting stuff without being too new-agey.
Jake Reynolds - Newcastle
Published on Monday, 18 February 2008 08:56 | | |
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The Albanian leaders of Kosova (or Kosovo or Kosovo i Metohija) declared themselves independent from Serbia at 03.00 pm on Sunday the 17th of February.
If you think that Kosovo is small and this is of little concern to you - allow me to tell you why this is a piece of European and world politics the importance of which stands in inverse proportion to the size of that tiny province.
Published on Tuesday, 12 February 2008 07:18 | | |
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Six years ago when I had the good fortune (or misfortune depending which way you look at it) to enjoy a brief flourishing as an 'it' girl and then write a book about it (not even on recycled paper, these days I’d insist!), thoughts of Green living weren’t at the top of my agenda - although I vaguely felt I was doing my bit.
By Julia Stephenson
Published on Monday, 24 March 2008 19:00 | | |
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The next time you have to raise your umbrella against blustery April showers, spare a thought for folks in the US, who have to deal with the effects of a remote weather phenomenon that many may know by name as El Niño, but whose influence has only recently been understood.
Siegfried Schubert and his colleagues at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center are studying the impact that El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events have on the most intense US winter storms.