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Published on Wednesday, 23 September 2009 19:00 | | 
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Three years ago I came into contact with Sarah Graham, TV director, drugs counsellor, and adviser to the Talk To Frank drug abuse website and phoneline, and to the Association of Chief Police Officers
She has been an amazing support for myself and my journey through Recovery — in my case a rather rocky road — but a road that she has successfully followed for many years now.
Beyond her courageous honesty regarding addiction, Sarah writes a moving account of her personal experience as an 'inter-sex woman', similar to the runner Caster Semenya whose sexual genetics have recently been the subject of heated debate.
Published on Wednesday, 23 September 2009 17:24 | | |
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What separates 'Us' — the good guys — from 'Them', the baddies? Fundamentally, very little, says the founder of The Forgiveness Project, Marina Cantacuzino
From the mass murderers of Auschwitz, to the Islamic extremists who flew their planes into the World Trade Center, the widespread belief is that those who do grave harm to others to fulfill their ideological purpose are fundamentally different from us. We use a special vocabulary for them: 'beasts', 'monsters', 'evil'. . .
Published on Monday, 21 September 2009 19:00 | | |
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An innovative UK launcher concept is to get 1m euros (£900,000) of investment from the European Space Agency.
Published on Sunday, 20 September 2009 19:00 | |
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Because your mother loves you...
And if you're really into moaning, here's a sample of the complaints dealt with by Thomas Cook Holidays during the season...
'On my holiday to Goa in India , I was disgusted to find that almost
every restaurant served curry. I don't like spicy food at all.'
Published on Saturday, 19 September 2009 19:00 | | |
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How I love Switzerland, writes Julia Stephenson. Ten years ago, when I was writing my first novel and desperate to escape all distractions, I decamped to Geneva to finish it.
I rented a small eyrie in the Hotel At Home in the Paquis district (my garret was surprisingly cheap; it was only later I realised this was because it was in the red-light district).
Published on Saturday, 19 September 2009 12:03 | |
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Should love shyness become a recognised psychological disorder or is it simply another manifestation of social anxiety? Amy Turner reports
Published on Thursday, 17 September 2009 07:58 | | |
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A group of scientists, described by the media as 'the immortalists', met earlier this month to share theories on ways in which we human beings could extend our life span, writes Louise Ellis.
The delegates attending the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) Conference see ageing as primarily an engineering problem. They believe the life span of the human body can be extended by replacing body parts as they wear out, and by upgrading the body's biochemistry as problems emerge. They think that such procedures will become commonplace two or three decades from now, enabling people to live to at least 125 years old and beyond.