Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.John F. Kennedy
  • Misplaced Priority?

    Swedish doctors have succeeded in transplanting a uterus from a mother to a daughter. The hope is to perfect the technique as one more way women who are infertile can be able to carry their own baby. The issue is said to have some relevance to eliminating the problems of surrogacy. It does however mean…

  • Pause For Thought

    There’s been a plan in Indonesia since 2008 called Jamkesmas which has covered health care for over 76 million poor Indonesians. Last fall the Indonesia parliament enacted a law providing health care for 240 million citizens as of January 2014. Part of that law also provides a system of death benefits, pensions and worker’s comp…

  • From Hitler to WMDS

    A store specializing in western clothes in Ahmedabad, India, has called itself Hitler and is using a swastika as a logo, totally unaware that it would create an international furor. One of the owner’s grandfather was so strict he was nicknamed Hitler, and the store was named after him. In that part of India Hitler…

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