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19 Apr 2005 05:11:28 AM |
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Society is disintegrating, and single-issue politics is back
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1462961,00.html
We have lost many of our common experiences, including that of voting
Martin Kettle
Tuesday April 19, 2005
The Guardian
The 1997 general election was easy to understand and simple to predict.
Likewise its younger twin of 2001. But 2005 refuses to be typecast in
the same, or any other, way. The dynamic of this contest is proving to
be far more fluid than its two predecessors, and thus much more
elusive. If you meet anyone who says they know what is going on in this
country at the moment, or who predicts the result with confidence,
they're wrong. Don't buy what they are selling.
Martin Kettle
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No free lunches for pensioners
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1462945,00.html
Bush's deceptive plans for the US social security system show why
privatisation is not the answer to the global pensions crisis
Joseph Stiglitz
Tuesday April 19, 2005
The Guardian
It is almost an optical illusion: looming on Japan's horizon, and on
Europe's and on America's, is a pensions crisis. The problem is real,
though exaggerated. The illusion is in some of the plans being devised
to deal with it.
The main question is whether privatising pension systems, as George
Bush has proposed for social security in the United States, would solve
the problem or merely make matters worse. With many countries pondering
whether to adopt variants of the Bush plan, the question requires
careful examination.
Stiglitz
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It's the 1980s, but don't panic
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1462959,00.html
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy evokes a decade that gave us more
than greed, yuppies and bad pop music
Zoe Williams
Tuesday April 19, 2005
The Guardian
It's an amazing story, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - the story
of its becoming a film, I mean. Not the story itself, though of course
that's very exciting as well. It was first optioned in 1982, and has
been hanging about so long that the stars originally mooted for its
protagonist (Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd) have now morphed into eminence
grise and has-been, respectively.
Zoe Williams
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Happiness, nature's tonic for a healthier life
http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,11381,1462869,00.html
David Adam
Tuesday April 19, 2005
The Guardian
A happy worker is a healthy worker, say scientists who have uncovered
the strongest link yet between a positive state of mind and long term
health.
Andrew Steptoe and colleagues at University College London asked more
than 200 middle-aged civil servants how many happy moments they
experienced during a typical day. The happiest people had lower levels
of chemicals which are linked to heart disease and type II diabetes.
So who wants to live in the Little House on the Prairie?
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=630848
The rural communities of North Dakota are targeting a new breed of
pioneer to fill their depleted towns and schools. Rupert Cornwell
reports from Divide County
19 April 2005
Something most unusual happened in Divide County last year. The number
of its inhabitants rose by three, to be precise from 2,205 to 2,208.
The visitor to this remote corner of north-western North Dakota, it
should be said at once, is unlikely to notice the difference. Even
after the increase, population density remains at just two per square
mile. Here on the Great Plains, modern American man, for all the
changes he has wrought - the extermination of the buffalo, the tearing
up of the wild prairie for farming - remains an afterthought. The marks
of his civilisation are but the tiniest dots on one of the emptiest,
most haunting landscapes on earth.
North Dakota
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Europeans Fast Falling Away From Church
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/international/worldspecial2/19europe.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
The urgent need to revitalize the Catholic Church in Europe is cited as
a major reason why a European may be elected as the next pope.
Pharmacies Balk on After-Sex Pill and Widen Fight in Many States
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/national/19pill.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By MONICA DAVEY and PAM BELLUCK
The debate has attracted many of the same advocates and prompted much
of the same intensity as the fight over abortion.
Facing Global Sanctions, Iran Uses Oil Fields to Seek Alliances
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/business/worldbusiness/19tehran.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By JAD MOUAWAD
Iran is arranging energy sales with influential countries, including
China and India, as a way to win stronger friendships.
25 Years Later, PBS Revisits Romance and Death in Saudi Arabia
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/arts/television/19stan.html
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
PBS's docudrama remains a thoughtful, engrossing film, though in
retrospect it is as telling about the journalistic process as it is of
life behind the veil.
Faith-Based Pandering
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64467-2005Apr18.html
By Richard Cohen
Tuesday, April 19, 2005; Page A19
Totally by mistake, I was summoned to meet Sen. Bill Frist shortly
after he first arrived in Washington. This happened because someone in
Frist's office confused me with the congressional affairs correspondent
of the National Journal, Richard E. Cohen, but I stayed to meet Frist
anyway and found him impressive. Time and tide have changed my view. He
is now the Senate majority leader and an undeclared but neon-lit
presidential candidate who is getting into shape for the long run to
the White House by shedding anything that weighs him down. In his case
it's principles.
As Merit-Aid Race Escalates, Wealthy Often Win
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63887-2005Apr18.html
State Programs, Competition Between Colleges Fuel Rise of Scholarships
With No Regard for Need
By Jay Mathews
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 19, 2005; Page A08
A father recently wrote to Dickinson College complaining that although
the school admitted his daughter, it did not offer her any scholarship
money, which two of its competitors had. The family's income was
$250,000 a year, but the father figured that the Carlisle, Pa., college
would kick in some financial aid rather than risk losing a student with
excellent grades and test scores.
Rio Run Amok
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7529006/site/newsweek/
Brazil's once marvelous city has lost its luster for natives as well as
visitors. Can it recover?
By Mac Margolis
Newsweek International
April 25 issue - It's not hard to get a rise out of the powers that be
in Rio de Janeiro. Just mention "crime" and "tourists" in the same
breath. "I can name you 20 friends who have been mugged in Paris,"
snaps Rio state's secretary of public security, Marcelo Itagiba. "For
tourists, Rio is as safe as Belgium," sniffs Alfredo Sirkis, city chief
of urban planning. Prickliness aside, the authorities have a point:
foreigners are by no means the main victims of Rio's busy bandits. But
that is cold comfort to the Cariocas, as Rio's besieged natives are
called.
Rio de Janeiro
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