Eric Meyer reveals his “Sooper-Dooper No-Patent-Pending DIY Anti-Jet-Lag Technique”. Not a lot to it; arrange matters so that you get your customary amount of sleep and wake at the time you would normally wake shifted to your destination's time zone. But Eric refuses to use melatonin. Why, I won...

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“Britons unconvinced on evolution,” says BBC News. A survey says that 39% of Britons think (and I use the word advisedly) that creationism or intelligent design best describes the origin and development of life. (The survey separated them into two but I can’t see why.) OK, 48% like evolution theor...

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Africa Needs Bed Nets Not Advisers - UN Adviser
SENEGAL: January 25, 2006
DAKAR - Africa needs practical help such as medicine and fertilisers to beat poverty, not more advisers from rich nations, a top economist and UN adviser said on Tuesday.

Could PlanetArk have written the headline I q...

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Best to be frank. In two months time I will have lived in Rome for five years. Until today, I had not yet been to the Sistine Chapel.

I’m glad that's off my chest.

There are all sorts of reasons. There always are. None of them holds up. I’ll go another time. Yes, but when? It’s too crowded in...

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A bunch of A-listers have created the blog equivalent of a circle jerk. In search of the best blo...

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