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Published on Thursday, 20 August 2009 12:11 | | 
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When health workers raise the alarm about standards of care, they can end up feeling as guilty as the organisations they expose, and many face career damage and professional isolation, reports Jane Cassidy.
One surgeon describes how he couldn't take "another day of knowing that a child was being sacrificed on the altar of surgical pride, institutional indifference, and professional impotence."
Published on Thursday, 20 August 2009 11:36 | | |
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It had to happen! We all knew, deep down, that scientists were just holding back all the good stuff for themselves, says Phil Becque
Breathtakingly simple in concept, slightly tricky in execution and more fun than a Ferrari - I give you 'The fabulous wooosh!'
Published on Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:00 | | |
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Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr and Daisaku Ikeda — three men
from three different cultures and continents, who have followed a
common path of profound dedication and achievement in improving
the lives of all people
The following short film is part of the Gandhi, King, Ikeda Exhibition conceived by Lawrence
Edward
Carter
Sr, Dean
of the Martin Luther King Jr International Chapel at Morehouse College, near Atlanta, Georgia, where King was educated.
Dean Carter hopes that by examining the lives of these great figures, people will find within the grasp of their own daily existence the same lofty ideals and principles — and also take action to change the world for the better.
Published on Sunday, 16 August 2009 19:00 | |
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Travelling the highways and byways of Europe are eye-popping trucks brilliantly painted with 3-D images of the products they are carrying This one has a giant beer bottle emerging from the side of the trailer.
See the rest!
Published on Saturday, 15 August 2009 19:00 | | |
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Over the years I have been so successfully indoctrinated about the dangerous effects of sun exposure that I have become adept at nearly avoiding it altogether, writes Julia Stephenson.
I shudder at the sight of fellow Brits who immediately shed all their clothes at the merest glimpse of sun sizzle but now health experts suggest these sun strippers have been right all along.
Published on Wednesday, 12 August 2009 03:56 | | |
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The Swedish Network for Nuclear Disarmament
met just before the traditional Swedish midsummer weekend at the Swedish
parliament to highlight a revival of the drive for the disarmament of all weapons of mass destruction
The seminar was headed up by Hans Blix, (Chairman of Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission), and various colleagues and allies that make up Sweden’s Nuclear disarmament network, writes Rachel Aspögård.
Published on Monday, 10 August 2009 05:21 | |
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Tommy Cooper was one of Britain's best loved commedians, famous for his funny one-and-two liners (cooperisms), and for making an art of getting magic tricks wrong. He died in 1984, during a TV show in front of millions of viewers.
Two blondes walk into a building..........you'd think at least one of them would have seen it.
Phone answering machine message: '...If you want to buy marijuana, press the hash key...'
I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn't find any.