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Mind & Meaning: Muted cheers for booze benefits

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:16:19 +0000

BOOZE gals slimmer’ – so ran a striking headline in the New York Post recently.

Mind & Meaning: Everyone's a winner with family-first work policies

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Work outside the home occupies a large part of people's lives. It is more than a time filler that provides vital income for individuals and their families -- it can also influence health and well-being.

Mind & Meaning: Demanding boss or just a big bully? It's all about context

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Nobody yet knows for certain if employees have been bullied by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Mind & Meaning: Delayed gratification is good for children

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Lent is now upon us and throughout the country people are engaged in "penance, fasting and almsgiving", the traditional practices throughout Christendom for centuries. But the demands of Lent are very different from what they used to be: in Ireland in the 1950s, dance halls closed down and festive activities were forbidden.

Mind & Meaning: Voice and body often don't speak the same language

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Communication is central to human relationships and those who are articulate and consummate communicators are much admired. US President Obama is a case in point and closer to home the late Anthony Clare typified the genre.

Mind & Meaning: That rare species – an altruistic politician

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Two brave politicians have spoken of their illnesses in recent weeks and both have won huge admiration for this. One spoke very movingly, not in a confessional manner but because circumstances overtook him.

Mind & Meaning: Baby boomers blow off the cobwebs of midlife crisis

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:24:00 +0000

IT HAPPENS to all of us who live long enough – we reach middle age and thereafter sink into disillusion and fear as we await death. While our exit from this life may be some 30 years away, for many the fact of retirement beckoning is enough to generate a personal crisis.

Mind & Meaning: 'Living hell' offers no comfort or closure for those left behind

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000

I watched the lorries as they dumped bodies into mass graves. The trailer tipped up and for a few moments, limbs, and torsos, one separated from the other, were visible flailing through the air as they tumbled into a man-made crater, a human landfill.

Mind & Meaning: Forgiveness is good for your physical and mental health

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Peter Robinson said that he forgave his wife despite her sexual transgressions.

Mind & Meaning: How to turn over a new leaf

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000

It's January 4, and by now a few of us will have already reneged on our New Year resolutions. Few of us know anything about the history of the New Year celebrations except its connection to promises to improve our lives.