Bush’s fondness for fundamentalism is courting disaster at home and abroad

Bush’s fondness for fundamentalism is courting disaster at home and abroad
Karen Armstrong
The Guardian
31 Jul 2006

From the very beginning, the conflict between religion and modern science was couched in extreme, even apocalyptic rhetoric. Thomas H Huxley, who popularised the Origin of Species, insisted that people had to choose between faith and science; there... read more...

Style guide Hepburn dress for sale

Style guide Hepburn dress for sale
Hadley Freeman Deputy fashion editor
The Guardian
27 Jul 2006

The dress that has inspired more fashion designers, more high street copies and more celebrities in search of fashion credibility than any other is to go on sale at Christie’s in December. The little black dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at... read more...

The Kremlin’s covergirl

The Kremlin’s covergirl
Photograph by Gleb Kosorukov
Stella
23 Jul 2006

There are, Ksenia Sobchak readily acknowledges, a lot of reasons why her fellow Russians can’t stand her. She’s young, glamorous, rich, extraordinarily well connected – she is a close family friend of President Vladimir Putin – and frequently referred... read more...

Who is the lord of the rings?

Who is the lord of the rings?

Weekend
22 Jul 2006

The aliens have fled the cornfields of Wiltshire. The UFOs have vanished and the 2006 Crop Circle Year Book is likely to be a duff read. Global warming, the World Cup, hay fever and the taxman are all being blamed for their disappearance. Others point... read more...

Why clean kids are a cancer risk

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Why clean kids are a cancer risk
By CLARE MASTERS Health Reporter
Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
21 Jul 2006

A SNOTTY nose and a grubby face may be a sign of good health, according to a landmark study showing children who grow up in affluent, hygienic areas are more prone to cancers. In the largest study of its kind experts found cancer clusters tended to... read more...

Ads may jolt pill sales

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Ads may jolt pill sales
By Bruce Japsen Tribune staff reporter
Chicago Tribune
16 Jul 2006

Hoping to help Americans snooze while also putting to rest controversies dogging the crowded group of prescription sleeping pills, a Chicago-area drugmaker this week will launch a nearly $100 million consumer ad campaign for its insomnia pill. Takeda... read more...

POOR NATIONS LAUGH ALL THE WAY TO BANK AS THEY TOP WORLD TABLE OF HAPPINESS (Irish Independent, 12 Jul 2006, Page 3)

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POOR NATIONS LAUGH ALL THE WAY TO BANK AS THEY TOP WORLD TABLE OF HAPPINESS
Philip Thornton
Irish Independent
12 Jul 2006

; WE may be the second wealthiest nation in the world < but when it comes to being happy we are a miserable 113th in the global stakes. Only a day after the Bank of Ireland research claimed that we never had it so good, a new index of wellbeing shows... read more...

Irish men have second shortest life expectancy in Europe

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Irish men have second shortest life expectancy in Europe
Edel Kennedy
Irish Independent
11 Jul 2006

IRISH men have the second shortest life expectancy in western Europe. A study of 14 countries found that Irish men live for an average of 74.93 years, slightly more than the Portuguese at 74.24. But they are around for almost four years less than the... read more...

Less than zero

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Less than zero

Irish Independent
10 Jul 2006

Acelebrity magazine (oh, all right, Grazia) published an ‘actual size’ picture of the seat of Victoria Beckham’s new David Bitton jeans last week (I know, I’ve never heard of him either but apparently they’re all the rage with the WAGs). She has a 23in... read more...

Loren’s Pirelli shoot prompts media frenzy

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Loren’s Pirelli shoot prompts media frenzy
John Hooper Rome
The Guardian
06 Jul 2006

As a 16-year-old starlet, she stripped to the waist to play a slave girl in an otherwise forgotten comedy, Era lui … Si! Si! Now, 55 years later and considered an icon in her native Italy, Sophia Loren is causing a new sensation with rumours she is to... read more...