We made that decision during our first long-term road trip in 2011. We took sixteen days to drive Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica and back, and the first half was hell on four wheels. On the way west, we hit the breaking point and when we got to California ...
If Japan does not successfully address its demographic challenges, the country will face long-term economic stagnation, reduced productivity, and increased societal pressures. However, Japan’s advanced infrastructure and technological innovations may allow it to continue to mitigate some of the most seve...
This is something lots of “Christians” (i.e., people who say they follow Christ but actually kinda suck at it) miss: you can’t just make a list of all the things Jesus was for and against because it super matters to Jesus what he was super for and super against (#technicaltermf...
While welcoming the Government’s apology, the Ombudsman hasdescribedthe decision on compensation as “disappointing”. But in March 2024 the Institute for Governmentpresciently suggestedthat the Ombudsman’s recommendation on compensation “risks satisfying no one – at considerable cost”: [The] recomm...
She becomes the country’s first female head of state and her term will last five years from 2013. “I will become a president who puts people’s living before anything else,” she told the cheering People in central Seoul as she accepted her win. “I will keep my promises.” Barack ...
alwaysaccepted this as part of the penalty which I naturally and justlyincurred by going over to the Soviet side. I must say at once that manyof these theories and speculations I was unaware of until very recentlyand some I may not know about even to this day. For the last twenty-five...
An act of benevolence, or pity, or plain boredom from Chance in the form of an offer for a short-term job was the catalyst for this shift in my life. A dream job that I had recently been told by someone in the sector I would be unlikely to ever get into. I jumped at the opport...
The stock market is not a place for short-term savings. If you want to put a little bit of that money at risk, you want to use a balanced fund of some kind or put some of it into bonds or just do it in CDs, I think that's fine. I think it's also perfectly fine to take ...
When coupled with a short course of radiotherapy to the remainder of the breast this has an equivalent, or even better, long-term outcome. In January further results came in. The MRI scan showed nothing unexpected and my right breast was clear – phew! The tumour area in my left breast ...
I think, though, that the long term consequences will be the opposite. This is because today's message of individual responsibility coincides with an equally powerful message of individual incompetence. The psychologists who have the attention of our media and our leaders are the ones who say tha...