I have done what SM asked for in the place she set up and promised to erase.

Clementi central. Workman smoothing out the cement at the base of a newly installed lamp post. 5 year old girl squatting opposite him watching how he does it.

At a shopping centre today I witnessed a most interesting sight. There was a young boy of about five or six out with his parents and younger brother, throwing a little hissy fit and running in front of them. He was stamping his feet and railing on about something while weaving between the knees of other shoppers. At the same time, a lady came by ( Read more... )

A: ... then we come to ponder the question that has puzzled almost everyone through the ages ( Read more... )

A: ... one way you can gain the upper hand in a conversation is to use praise ( Read more... )

Poles "vital for climate science": Poland new world power

Missile defence a "hit or miss" affair

Research shows most misers miserable

Subeditors urged: "use conjunctions!"

Destitute relief scheme "beggars belief", found wanting

BOOK SALES ( Read more... )

Westerners 'are more promiscuous' according to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Yet more fodder for Asian Values advocates deploring the westernisation of our youth.

Think you can tell the difference between Chinese, Japanese, and Korean faces? Try this quiz!

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Real life imitates fiction as the wives and girlfriends of Colombian gangsters stage their own Lysistrata to get their men to give up violence.

In Aristophanes's play, Lysistrata leads the women of Athens and the women of Sparta to force their men to end the Peloponnesian War, by first seizing the city state's financial reserves, then refusing to ( Read more... )