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Published on Friday, 23 May 2008 19:00 | | 
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AGONY
My mother died two months ago after a long battle with cancer. Three months before her death my father started seeing a woman, ten years his junior, he’d apparently had a fling with (while married) forty-six years before.
Published on Friday, 23 May 2008 11:13 | | |
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The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan
By Kathy Marks and Daniel Howden
A 'plastic soup' of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.
Published on Thursday, 22 May 2008 19:00 | | |
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The campaign to
establish a Minister for Peace within the Northern Ireland Executive,
as a step towards a full Ministry for Peace, has been launched at Stormont, the seat of the Northern
Ireland Assembly.
Welcoming the initiative, Alliance Party leader David Ford MLA
introduced the driving force behind the campaign, Nobel Peace Laureate
Mairead Corrigan Maguire. Mairead was supported in person by fellow
Laureate Jodi Williams, and from afar by the Nobel Peace Women.
Published on Wednesday, 21 May 2008 19:00 | | |
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What is the purpose of life? It is to become happy, argues Daisaku Ikeda
Whatever country or society people live in, they all have the same deep desire: to become happy. Yet, there are few ideals as difficult to grasp as that of happiness. In our daily life we constantly experience happiness and unhappiness, but we are still quite ignorant as to what happiness really is.
Published on Monday, 19 May 2008 19:00 | | |
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What is this life if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare...up at the night sky from time to time?
Gamma-ray bursts are thought to be the most luminous single transient events in the universe, writes Robert Naeye, and the one on 19 March seems to have broken all records for the brightest gamma-ray burst so far. It occurred about 8 billion light years away, but was bright enough (briefly) to be visible without a telescope, should someone have been looking up in that direction at that moment.
Published on Sunday, 18 May 2008 19:00 | |
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Deliriously funny - a guaranteed mood-lifter!
Published on Saturday, 17 May 2008 19:00 | | |
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Julia has just been on the telly - coo!
Recently a film crew from GMTV came round to my flat to record a sort of green infomercial which was to be replayed on Lorraine Kelly’s breakfast show the following week. Eager as always to do my bit for the planet I was filmed poking around my worm bin (unfortunately the lid had blown off again and all the rain had turned it into a bit of a swamp), cleaning my windows with vinegar and water and watering my window boxes with my grubby saved old bathwater.