Yesterday this newspaper published a YouGov survey showing that support for Labour is at its lowest level for 65 years; even Michael Foot did better. As Prof Anthony King commented, it looks as if the Government and the electorate are heading for a bitter divorce at the general election. But the significance of the poll [...]
The cross-dressing potter Grayson Perry has come up with a brilliant strategy for making his work look good. It’s such an obvious wheeze, I wonder why others haven’t employed it before. Asked by the Arts Council to select a show from the huge collection of modern British art it has built up, Perry has plumped [...]
But is it too good to be true? Everything in life has a cost, even if it’s not immediately obvious. KiwiSaver may be lucrative for many people but that doesn’t mean it’s good for New Zealand as a whole.
The total cost of KiwiSaver’s subsidies will soon reach $2 billion a year, and that is probably [...]
“I turned down several pieces that were up for Oscars this year. But I have no regrets. There was a reason I passed on them.” For this chat, Cooper is living up to the label that Variety gave him years ago, that “hang-dog character actor of stage, films and television.” [...]
She’s a B student, but Eveline knows that another failing score on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test means no high-school diploma in May and an interruption to her dreams of going to college.
But for Eveline, the test is just one more obstacle to overcome. She intends to earn a bachelor’s degree and to become the [...]
Turner now says he does not consider himself agnostic or atheist, as he had sometimes described himself previously. He prays for sick friends because “it doesn’t hurt,” he said, and maintains several churches on his properties for employees and others who live nearby.”As I get older, you know, I get more, you know, more tolerant,” [...]
A %26quot;Global Fund to Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases,%26quot; say Professor Hotez (Sabin Vaccine Institute and George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA) and colleagues, would %26quot;satisfy an urgent need to support NTD control and elimination.%26quot;
The NTDs, such as intestinal worms, schistosomiasis, elephantiasis, and river blindness, represent the most common infections of the world’s poorest–the bottom billion. [...]
Buruli ulcer is a neglected, devastating, necrotizing disease, sometimes producing massive, disfiguring ulcers, with huge social impact. The disease occurs predominantly in impoverished, humid, tropical, rural areas of Africa, where the incidence has been increasing, surpassing tuberculosis and leprosy (two other diseases caused by mycobacteria) in some regions. Besides being a disease of the poor, [...]
Up a narrow staircase lies a brightly lit gallery displaying the works of two distinct, sometimes warring, but forever bonded artists: Natalie Lovejoy, 47, and her gadabout dad Jimmy, 75, who was divorced from her mother when Natalie was in second grade.
Though father and daughter were once estranged, the Mount Dora gallery now serves to [...]
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Many of the poorest people in the United States are still struggling to recover from the effects of a recession that ended six years ago, making them very vulnerable as the country stands on the brink of a new downturn.
In 2006, the latest year for which Census Bureau figures are available, 12.3 [...]
