I have waited until now to give my take on the Terri Schiavo case because of the ambiguousness of the facts. It seems that each news report has been casting the Schiavo case in yet another light, and there have been no shortage of news reports. I have spent considerable time thinking about [...]

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Richard Layard, author of “Happiness: Lessons from a New Science”, has written an article for The Times entitled “Be happy, pay more to the taxman”, an article of immediate interest to me. In it, Layard states that surveys in the United Kingdom and the United States reveal that, despite unparalleled economic growth, as a [...]

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