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Danger: Politics, harmful to health
Bored with the British election coverage? Who is going to swing where? According to The Guardian, the average Briton worries about the personalities and the policies for about two weeks...
New safety rules for hiking on ‘the mountain that swallows people’
Beautiful Mount Nyangani turns hostile in moments. It “swallows people” in the local legend – many have disappeared without trace over the years but there’s no way of knowing exactly...
Thirty Shades of Grey, Seven and a Half Weeks, no Wolf of Wall Street
The censors have just cut Fifty Shades of Grey, just as they cut Another Nine and a Half Weeks, hence the new local titles,”Thirty Shades of Grey” and “Another...
Why we never win the lottery
More chance of seeing Elvis in the local supermarket, more chance of getting shot dead in a random drive-by. More chance of stumbling across an unpublished Ernest Hemingway manuscript,...
Well, well, Mr Kissinger…
Well, well, Mr Kissinger. The outlook might have looked different in 1974. Dire economic hardships persist in the developing world. Poor, inadequate harvests are again forecast in Zimbabwe this year....
The shocking truth about the Euro
Shock, horror. The euro has now fallen well below the U.S. dollar. A chocolate euro now costs more than the real coin is worth. As Zimbabwe abandoned the local dollar...
Bringing out our dead
Unless a demented co-pilot plunges his Airbus into the French alps with the loss of all on board, or Jihadists decapitate or burn alive their captives, we seldom reflect on...
Consequences of loss
I became acquainted with loss at an early age. Both my parents died when I was a child, my mother before my father. My father had once forgotten to collect...
