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Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...busy…’ But these are the small things – the ripples in the fabric of normal life – that you don’t necessarily notice but which, as I know now, can be very significant.” Three months after Edward stopped playing, and just two weeks after he handed in an English essay his teacher would later describe as among the best he had read, police knocked at the door of...
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...business model you are interested in. Eventually, you might have a product which has different protections applied to it – be it, for example, a trademark or a patent, etc. Interviewer In principle, software programs themselves are not patentable. So why is patent law relevant to software engineers? Maria Fernández-Ferreira Well, first of all, the laws are different in...
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Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?

...business and the military/industrial complex. The demographic sands are shifting fast. By the middle of this century Spanish will be the first language of a majority of Americans. If only 36.4% vote, is the US still a democracy? It all too often escapes attention that, in the 2014 congressional elections, only 36.4% of Americans entitled to vote actually did so. 63% of...
Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate
Society, Politics & Law

Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate

...business in the 1970s that attracted the attention of the justice department. The denouement The climax of the debate came, however, when the debate turned to foreign policy. At first, it seemed to revert to type. In a riff on cybersecurity, Russia and terrorism, Trump threw out vague assertions that current policy was a failure and that Clinton had been around for a long...
How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism
History & The Arts

How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism

...business and resent being told to eat more fruit, consume less alcohol and generally pull our socks up when it comes to dinner. The efforts in 2012-13 by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to ban the sale of extra large soft drinks failed precisely because critics viewed it as an intrusion into the individual’s right to make their own dietary choices. “New Yorkers...
Living History: Life as a Railway Worker During the 2020–21 COVID-19 Global Pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Living History: Life as a Railway Worker During the 2020–21 COVID-19 Global Pandemic

...businesses, including pubs, re-opened. The previous reality of ticketless travel, followed by the re-instatement of revenue protection policies, meant staff were once again charged with carrying out ticket checks which brought with it new concerns for Conductors and Ticket Examiners who had to ask passengers who may have got used to travelling free, to pay once again. The...
Aeroplane Design and Engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Aeroplane Design and Engineering

...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/36507420/ns/business-us_business/t/hundreds-suppliers-one-boeing-airplane/%20-%20.VxSzNtgVGpo http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1308128/Boeings-billion-dollar-gamble-Inside-worlds-biggest-building-new-787-Dreamliner-plane-built.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-truths/What-happens-to-lost-luggage/...
Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company
History & The Arts

Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company

...businesses of Indian merchants for their own gain. In its drive to make money, as one EIC officer wrote on returning to England: ‘half the great cities of an opulent kingdom were rendered desolate; the most fertile fields in the world laid waste; and five millions of harmless and industrious people were either expelled or destroyed’ (in Dalrymple). Contemporary Indian...