More soldiers per capita than any other Western democracy is not much of a standing army? Well, I suppose it depends what you mean by standing.
I think the point about being a bit more cautious about needless violence when it's ones own life on the line is a good one -- something else that seems to be working well for them.
Presumably that's why Swizerland's reputation and economy has been wrecked by all those needless wars they get into? Or maybe the people are a bit more shrewd than we give then credit for.
I wouldn't be surprised if he were still taxed because he was awarded the prize, and then the company giving the prize got taxed because he then gifted it to them. Anybody remember the Singing Nun?
Medicalert can deal with avoiding medical hazards, but it doesn't deal with the "get the correct medication" part. I've been unable to get my hay fever prescription when in a different part of the UK, and unable to get my gout medication when abroad for an extended period. If I had any confidence that the government(s) would get this right then I would welcome it enthusiastically: it is very much needed.
Absolutely. The referenced article doesn't say that the killer has been identified, it says that the police want to bring somebody to trial. There's a big difference, and long may it remain so.
You can't trust the information from any source completely, and at University students should be learning that. One of my lecturers made us all buy a set text, then in the next lecture told us that he had set the text because it was riddled with errors, and was therefore representative of what we'd meet outside college so we'd better learn to live with it.
I have cited Wikipedia in an academic essay, and got a distinction; I did include a discussion of the limitations (and strengths) of Wikipedia and justified my use of it. Surely that's what's needed in academic essays: students should show that they understand the strengths and weaknesses of sources, and can handle them. Dividing sources into two sets, the completely reliable and the completely unreliable, is surely misguided.
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More soldiers per capita than any other Western democracy is not much of a standing army? Well, I suppose it depends what you mean by standing.
I think the point about being a bit more cautious about needless violence when it's ones own life on the line is a good one -- something else that seems to be working well for them.
Presumably that's why Swizerland's reputation and economy has been wrecked by all those needless wars they get into? Or maybe the people are a bit more shrewd than we give then credit for.
I wouldn't be surprised if he were still taxed because he was awarded the prize, and then the company giving the prize got taxed because he then gifted it to them. Anybody remember the Singing Nun?
Medicalert can deal with avoiding medical hazards, but it doesn't deal with the "get the correct medication" part. I've been unable to get my hay fever prescription when in a different part of the UK, and unable to get my gout medication when abroad for an extended period. If I had any confidence that the government(s) would get this right then I would welcome it enthusiastically: it is very much needed.
Unfortunately that's a big "if".
Absolutely. The referenced article doesn't say that the killer has been identified, it says that the police want to bring somebody to trial. There's a big difference, and long may it remain so.
In fact, I seem to recall that the USA got them from us. They had to fight us for them, but they got them from us.
You can't trust the information from any source completely, and at University students should be learning that. One of my lecturers made us all buy a set text, then in the next lecture told us that he had set the text because it was riddled with errors, and was therefore representative of what we'd meet outside college so we'd better learn to live with it.
I have cited Wikipedia in an academic essay, and got a distinction; I did include a discussion of the limitations (and strengths) of Wikipedia and justified my use of it. Surely that's what's needed in academic essays: students should show that they understand the strengths and weaknesses of sources, and can handle them. Dividing sources into two sets, the completely reliable and the completely unreliable, is surely misguided.