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Murf

Postcards from my mind, written for my reader, she knows who she is.

Year: 2015

Equality Middle East

Glacial change

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Only a country as restrictive as Saudi Arabia could come up with such a thing as a progressive move. Female divorcees and widows in Saudi Arabia are to be assigned ID cards allowing them to act independently from men, local media reported on Thursday. The changes will allow women to register a child for school, […]

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Health

A glimmer of hope

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The use of antibiotics exerts a Darwinian selection pressure for acquisition of resistance by the target bacteria, and resistance arising anywhere in the microbial world can ultimately be transferred to disease-causing bacteria. In addition, the antibiotic discovery process is now in terminal decline. The golden age of antibiotics took place in the 1930s to 1970s, […]

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Government Health

Choice illusions

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we are sentient beings capable of choice, and that this is highly valued, but choices are made in context. If the context is a community with no fruit and vegetable shops, but a string of fast-food outlets along the high street, then people choose between one form of unhealthy food and another. If junk food […]

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