The UK Government announced last week, a string of reforms designed to change the way that prisons operate. One of… Read More →

As the death toll from the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment manufacturing building in Dhaka, Bangladesh approaches 400, the… Read More →

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When the painter James McNeill Whistler was a cadet at West Point, he was assigned to draw a bridge in… Read More →

A recent article in the  New York Times draws a comparison between the physiological aspects of hearing and listening.  In brief… Read More →

Nervous negotiators may often be tempted to partake in a drop of “Dutch Courage” before entering what they anticipate will… Read More →