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Earlier this summer, the World Health Organization (WHO) made quite a show of raising the worldwide swine flu pandemic alert to the highest phase; i.e., to phase 6 on a scale of 1 to 6: This particular H1N1 strain [swine flu] has not circulated previously in humans. I have conferred with leading influenza experts, virologists, and… Read more.
Throughout August, I watched in utter stupefaction as grownups, displaying a perverse mix of ignorance and arrogance, turned Town Hall meetings on health care reform into schoolyard rows. Therefore, I’m not at all surprised that these same grownups have now turned a “back to school speech” by President Obama (scheduled for later today) into an… Read more.
Yet it’s a far cry from the depression-era rate (of 32%) many feared… Read more.
A few weeks ago, I wrote a commentary in support of proposed legislation in The Bahamas – my country of birth – banning marital rape. And even though I knew religious zealots there would raise holy hell against this legislation, I thought citing the fact that virtually every civilized country in the world has criminalized marital… Read more.
Wildfires are becoming as menacing to Western states, most notably California, as hurricanes have always been to Southern states, most notably Florida. Never mind that far too many of these fires are ignited not by Mother Nature, but by human beings. Of course I always feel sympathy for those who lose their homes, to say nothing of the firefighters who lose their lives.… Read more.
Why are men’s muscles so much bigger than women’s? Partly, of course, because men do the fighting and hunting. But also, perhaps, because women like men who can do these things well, and are thus attracted to muscular men… The more muscular a man, the more sexual partners he reported, both in the past year… Read more.
Imagine the state of affairs in the UK if the Conservative Party – with its focus on business and increasing the wealth of the “haves” – had been in power for past 54 years. Then imagine the electoral revolution if the perennially hapless Labour Party – with its focus on welfare and reducing the plight… Read more.
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