Internet benefits, March 9th 2013 P72 インターネットの賜物 When her two-year-old daughter was diagnosed with cancer in 1992, Judy Mollica spent hours in a nearby medical library in South Florida, combing through journals for information ab…

England in 60s and 70s, April 11th 2009 P51. 映画に見る英国の６０年代、 ７０年代 In the 1960s women wore miniskirts and men sported dizzying shirts and Lennonesque circular glasses. People took drugs, had jaunty sex with strangers and list…

Personal finance, January 12th 2013 P70 個人資産の運用 Have you ever met anyone who has grown rich just by saving? Probably not. But you may well have met someone who has grown rich looking after other people's savings. That dark secret li…

Old prisoners, March 2nd 2013 P56 高齢受刑者の増加と対策 (前略) The main cause is not crime rates (which are mostly falling) but harsher sentences and less parole - plus an aging population. Another, says Azrini Wahidin of Belfast Universi…

Solo living, Feb 16th 2013 P75 独居の楽しみと孤立死 ゛You need an apartment alone even if it's over a garage,゛declared Helen Gurley Brown in her 1962 bestseller ゛Sex and the Single Girl゛. To Brown, who went on to edit Cosmoplitan magazi…

The lunacy of the long-distance runner, Dec 22nd 2012 P85 長距離ランナー の狂気 (前略) Herodotus did not appear particularly taken by Pheidippides's feat of endurance. Since his ゛Histories゛also includes tales of ants bigger than foxes, i…