BINGE drinking” is a useful term that indicates an excessive, unhealthy and dangerous level of drinking. “Binge” drinkers aim to get drunk, often as quickly as possible. It is disappointing to see the term misused in the current debate over the new National Health and Medical Research Council Guidelines (Sunday Age, 15/6).
These guidelines are not [...]
The teacher - who has been deregistered by the Teachers Council after a disciplinary tribunal hearing - admitted his actions. He said he deeply regretted his two-year descent into pornography and had betrayed the school and his pupils.
In a submission to the tribunal, he said he used the internet to research books and films for [...]
The days are long gone when it was good enough for critics to object without
explanation to the sight of an army sergeant violently shoving a crucifix up
the anus of a lieutenant suspected of treachery, or of a boy despairingly
yanking out his own eyes two of the more gruesome events in Ill Be the
Devil.
After all, [...]
Fierce dry winds whipped dust into whirling tunnels in the air, fanning fires
on the surrounding hills last week. More than 150 displaced women and
children arrived to squat behind my house in the hope that here they might
be safe. Even the children sat silently and watched the smoke-hazy horizons.
Each new burst of flame might be their [...]
The economy will be the first headache for the next government of Pakistan and yet all the parties’ promises in these fevered last days of campaigning look likely to make the problem worse. Shaukat Aziz, until recently Prime Minister in President Musharraf’s Government, and before that, as Finance Minister, one of the overseers of the [...]
Welsh Guards are on standby for Kosovo
Six hundred soldiers from the Welsh Guards have been put on alert to deploy to
Kosovo this weekend to coincide with the expected declaration of
independence by the majority ethnic Albanian population (Michael Evans
writes).
The Welsh Guards, equipped with Saxon armoured vehicles and %26ldquo;snatch%26rdquo; Land
Rovers, will be used to provide reassurance to [...]
Good news for Devons badgers. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural
Affairs (Defra) says that it has no plans to make funds available for
homeowners in the county to erect electric fences or other measures to repel
the two-toned beasties.
A Public and Corporate Economic Consultants report to Defra put the number of
birds killed in sport shooting events [...]
The 24-year-old woman was arrested on March 28 but released on bail until early May in relation to the %26quot;rape%26quot;, which allegedly occurred in November, British newspapers reported.
Three boys, one 14 and two aged 16, were arrested after the woman reported the incident to police in February but will face no further action, it was [...]
“Plainsong” is the silver spur of a trio of new American plays now being presented simultaneously by the Denver Center Theatre Company. Individually, each works in its own way and for its own audience. Cumulatively, for their risk and diversity and breadth, they make for an emphatic, empirical endorsement of Kent Thompson’s grand plan [...]
Crash! Bang! Boom! goes the action in “Vantage Point.” Though not necessarily in that order.
A final-act car chase with its collateral smash-ups dents director Pete Travis’ taut, if gimmicky, thriller some.
But before it swerves toward action boilerplate, “Vantage Point” makes nice use of the heft of Dennis Quaid, Forest Whitaker, William Hurt and [...]
