There are some nuns in Good Counsel Hill, Mankato, Minnesota who seem to have gained the edge over the rest of mankind in mental and physical health. The Convent of the School Sisters of Notre Dame is being studied with a pioneering brain-science experiment by David Snowdon of Sanders-Brown Centre on Ageing, and the University…
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A farmer has fallen foul of the local authority, and has felt the full weight of government bureaucracy. An inspector from Berkshire County Council identified the lack of width on a public pathway because barley had been allowed to grow on a part of the path that crosses his land. The inspector told the farmer…
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Harold Macmillan when opening a lecture course in 1941, recalled the philosopher J. A. Smith thus: “Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life – save only this – that if you work hard and diligently you should be able…
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