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An extraordinary act of compassion
In prison for attempted murder, my life suddenly changed when I received a letter from the policeman I had tried to kill. | September 2004 Read More...
Using homeopathy to treat cancer
Kim Ridley | Jan/Feb 2006 issue In the mid 1980s, A. U. Ramakrishnan, a homeopath based in Madras, India, started seeing more cancer patients filling his waiting room. That only made him more determined to find homeopathic treatments for the disease, which had claimed the lives of his two older Read More...
Money should work for us, not the other way around
What is money? Do we need more of it to solve some of the world's problems? Or is money the cause of them? Ex-banker Bernard Lietaer thinks the latter is the case. And he has the solution: a new kind of money. Jurriaan Kamp | September 2005 issue You have no idea what money is. Bernard Lietaer Read More...
Our place in the world
Most of us take public spaces for granted until they disappear and we have no place to go. A new movement is now emerging to reinvigorate public life. To make contact with others, to create quite moments, to celebrate the joy of living in the city. An ode to streets, parks, squares, caf Jay Read More...
Mapping the course of economic globalization
The Philips factory, which was the pride of the Belgian city of Hasselt, closed its doors in 2002 and the jobs were "outsourced" to Eastern Europe, Taiwan and China. This story is emblematic of what's happening today as the economic centre of gravity shifts to Asia. Ode traces Philips' footsteps to Read More...
The masters fall silent
The current generation of healers is only an "instrument"Tijn Touber | November 2004 issue It’s not all that much fun anymore to interview gurus, coaches, therapists or masters. When you ask them what they actually do, they say: “Nothing, I’m only an instrument.” And if you then ask how Read More...
Letters and Love
The power and promise of silence Tijn Touber | April 2005 issue What is it about words that we need so many of them to make things clear to each other? And even then, there is still so much room for misunderstanding? One of the problems is in the medium of language itself. In his book The Read More...
Ghosts that bedeviled our thinking
A former archbishop looks for meaning in a life without God. A book review of Richard Holloway's "Looking in the Distance." Tijn Touber | May 2005 Read More...
Fast Food Planet
A new documentary raises questions about health effects of McDonald's food. | July 2004 Read More...
India On-line
Handheld computers get resources into the hands of needy villagers. | October 2004 Read More...