"This latest finding adds to a wealth of data suggesting that being happy isn't all it's cracked up to be.... Happiness seems to make people more selfish, the latest in a series of revelations suggesting it changes how you think – and not in a good way."
Read More ...Asylum applications for the last three months of 2009 were the lowest since the early 1990's. Border and Immigration Minister Phil Woolas ia reported to have said" ...Our border has never been stronger, as shown by the fall in the number of asylum applications."
Read More ...How we in the West are accepting worsening 'customer care' under the pretence of efficiency.
Read More ...It struck me very strongly this week that in the week that Auschwitz survivors mark Holocaust Memorial Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8482760.stm), I happen to be reading Viktor E Frankel's "Man's Search for Meaning". Dr. Frankel was an Auschwitz survivor. In the same week, news coming out of the disaster in Haiti cumulated with the story of a teenage girl who was pulled from the rubble of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, 15 days after the earthquake struck (http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/americas/8484317.stm).
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