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Thirty-seven winters of discontent
History & The Arts

Thirty-seven winters of discontent

...trouble moving on from "winter of discontent"? Sometimes, it might seem like we're living in a sort of ultra-depressing Narnia, where it's always a winter of discontent, and never Christmas of contentment. In 1978/79, the adaptation of Shakespeare's phrase to throw a new angle on the privations the UK was experiencing might have seemed like a fresh idea. But much as the...
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Sperm counts
Nature & Environment

Sperm counts

...trouble getting stiff. Embarrassment is a real turn-off too, as Zeron found while being filmed! Most men suffer at least a few episodes of erection failure during their lives. Usually it's nothing to worry about. Once ejaculation has happened, how sperm find their way to the egg is not accurately known. The first thing to bear in mind is that the woman's vagina is not a...
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Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...troubling pattern of birth defects: newborns with severely malformed arms and legs. Their mothers, he reported, had been taking a new drug called Distaval. Its active ingredient? Thalidomide. Over the next few months, other doctors published similar observations. It soon became clear that thalidomide, a sedative that had been marketed as a safe treatment for morning...
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The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...trouble started with the labour militancy ofthe wartime years, with flashpoints in 1915 during the famous Glasgow Rent Strike, in 1916 with the Sedition trial of John Maclean and other working-class leaders, in 1918 with yet more trials, and ended with the 40 Hours Strike, and pitched fighting on the streets on "Bloody Friday", January 31" 1919. The image of the city was...
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From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...trouble introducing yourself, however clearly you spoke, whereas any segmentation containing whole words is much easier to understand. SAQ 9 Can you see any problems that might arise with achieving either phoneme identification before segmentation into words, or segmentation into words before phoneme identification? Answer As we saw above, identification of phonemes often...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Dan Rees - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dan Rees - Earth in Vision

...trouble, that it’s dropping severely. I think that the number of stories about that have probably dropped, interestingly, since the recession. I think it tends to go cyclically depending on how people are feeling in terms of their economic status and their self-interest at home, so I’m not sure what can be really done about that in terms of how people continue to keep...
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The Life of Saint Andrew
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Andrew

...troubled, nor did his senses fail him, as it happens to human frailty: but the flame of charity which burned in his breast, cast forth sparks through his mouth.” The saint goes on, showing that fervour and love will make penance and labour sweet, seeing it can sweeten death itself, and, by the unction of the Holy Ghost, make even its torments desirable. The body of St....
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Introducing the philosophy of religion
History & The Arts

Introducing the philosophy of religion

...trouble in the world? B.Does God exist? C.Could the world exist if God didn’t exist? D.If God is good, why is there so much evil in the world? E.Does religion depend on fear and brainwashing? F.Are all religious people hypocrites? G.Were Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King hypocrites? H.Can you be a good person without being religious? I.What difference does it...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs