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the minimum age
We put age limits on a number of different activities and behaviours in order to protect children and in recognition of their relative immaturity to cope with what are essentially adult activities. There is a minimum age, for example, for smoking, drinking alcoholic drinks, sex and even voting. there will be questions about whether the…
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“incoming!”
We have been told by NASA that sometime today a satellite the size of a bus will be giving in to gravity and plummet towards the earth. Most of it will be burnt up in the atmosphere but some bits will get through and could land anywhere. I have had a couple of thoughts about…
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why?
I was on a train a while ago with a number of different passengers. I suspect that we were all riveted by two of our travelling companions. There was a small child and his mum. The child was looking out of the window and asking his mum questions about what he saw: “Why is that…
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