A Beatles-loving patient of our Naples-based psychiatrist has a very personal interpretation of arguably the band’s most famous hit.
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In Germany, the Ministry for Family Affairs came up with a strategy to combat loneliness: university chairs, initiatives and even a “loneliness barometer.” But one no-filter boomer writer for Die Welt says it’s all unnecessary — and today’s young people should focus on having more children and stop pathologizing every feeling.
Updated Dec. 8, 2023 at 12:15 p.m. A deranged fan shot and killed former Beatles member John Lennon outside of his apartment on the upper West Side of New York City on this day 43 years ago. Lennon’s death shocked the world, and seemed to put a definitive end to the 1960s and 1970s idealist […]
October 15-16 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. What country expressed outrage after Russian missiles that hit Kyiv crossed its airspace? 2. India had to halt the production of what medicine after a report linked it to dozens of child deaths in Gambia? Cough syrup/Insulin/Antibiotics 3. […]
October 8-9 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ What do you remember from the news this week? 1. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he will not negotiate with Russia as long as…? 2. North Korea fired a missile over what country’s territory for the first time since 2017? 3. Slovenia became the first Eastern European country […]
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Self-Driving Reality
Driverless cars used to seem like the stuff of sci-fi. But as the U.S. unveils a list of guidelines about self-driving vehicles today, it’s safe to say that these cars have zipped from the realm of a distant future to the regulatory thicket that’s an all too clear reminder that this is very much a […]
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On This Day – January 30
TOKYO — The large speakers at Quattro Labo, a music bar near Kichijoji Station in western Tokyo, mostly play U.S. rock music from the 1960s and 1970s: Bob Dylan, Ry Cooder, the Allman Brothers Band. Not only that, but the sound has a depth to it — along with the distinct scratch-and-pop effect — that […]
Greece will vote in national legislative elections Sunday to choose its 300 members of parliament, after the ruling conservative coalition failed to maintain its parliamentary majority in December. And no, this is not your ordinary election. Polls suggest a victory of the radical left party, Syriza, with more than 30% of voting intentions, and stakes […]
CHINA AND TAIWAN MEET FOR HISTORIC GOVERNMENT TALKS Representatives of the China and Taiwan governments met today in the Eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, the first face-to-face meeting of cross-strait officials since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, which saw the separation of the two states. While no official agenda was released […]
Worldcrunch NEW YORK – Former Beatle Paul McCartney will perform with Nirvana’s Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic at 12.12.12 benefit gig for Superstorm Sandy. Here is an imaginary mashup setlist of the songs they might play tonight in New York: 1- Smells Like The Walrus 2- Come As Lady Madonna 3- Lucy In The Sky […]
REUTERS INDIA, TIMES OF INDIA (India), BBC NEWS (UK) Worldcrunch SAN DIEGO – Indian sitar legend Ravi Shankar, who influenced everyone from the Beatles to Guns N” Roses guitarist Slash, has died at the age of 92 after he failed to recover from recent heart surgery in San Diego. Ravi Shankar in March 2009 – […]
ONS, BBC NEWS (UK) Worldcrunch LONDON – Britain’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported Thursday that the UK economy has emerged from recession, helped by the Olympic Games. In the three months from July to September, the country’s economy returned to growth at its fastest pace in five years, with its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) […]