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Theme : life
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The fat tax is back
Spotted this story in the Mirror about a report from the Consumers Association recommending a Fat Tax.Click here for the story.
from : paulmiller
26th February 2003
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Childrens Lives under threat
The number of children killed on our roads leaps as soon as they start going to secondary school. "THE risk of children being seriously injured or killed on their way to school doubles when they reach secondary school age because parents become less attentive, a study has found." Click here to find out more (free registration required).
from : matthewhorne
26th February 2003
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We all need a bit of happiness
Have you noticed that feeling happy has suddenly become a popular topic for research? At Demos,we have decided to investigate what makes people happy, and the government, through a Strategy Unit Report, have obviously decided that understanding the concept of happiness would be beneficial. Lectures at the LSE may provide some happiness hints.
from : alistairdavidson
20th February 2003
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The Rottweiler Index
Just come across this clever bit of decline of social capital moeasurement by Alex MacGillivray of NEF:"In 1992, there were eight terriers to every Rottweiler. But in the last decade, Rottweiler numbers have grown inexorably, on average by 11 per cent a year. By 2001, they finally outstripped Yorkshire terriers in popularity."Read the briefing here.
from : paulmiller
20th February 2003
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Quarter of children victims of crime
The study for Victim Support said that 11 per cent reported suffering more than five crimes in the past year. Another 31 per cent suffered between two and five crimes. Fifty-eight per cent of the children said that they had been victims once. Read more on page two of todays Times.
from : matthewhorne
19th February 2003
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Slow food
The improbably named Corby Kummer and our friend Signor Carlo Petrini feature in this article about the slow food movement. Slow food was thrust into the heart of the British political debate by the seminal Demos publication, Foodstuff: Living in an age of feast and famine (Howland, Holden and Stedman-Jones 2002):"In The Pleasures of Slow Food, Corby Kummer describes how Slow Food searches for artisans all over the world who are baking bread or making cheese or raising cattle, using...
from : pauljoseph
5th February 2003
