The embattled music icon was taken to the University of California at Los Angeles medical centre last night, and paramedics administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the ambulance. He did not regain consciousness and was reported dead about three hours later. Earlier his father, Joe Jackson, had told the TMZ.com website: “He is not doing well.” The [...]
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She epitomised the glamour and what was quaintly known as the sex-appeal of 1970s California: the buoyant golden curls, the pearl-white teeth, the sun-kissed curves. As the standout heroine of an improbable detective series, Charlie’s Angels, Farrah Fawcett shot to stardom on our television screens and, thanks to a poster that sold a record 12m [...]
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One of my favorite economics blogs is the Becker-Posner blog, where each week (usually on Sunday), economist Gary Becker and appeals court Judge Richard Posner each write up separate posts on a particular topic. Becker is a brilliant economist and Posner is one of (if not) the most economically literate judges around. He’s also quite [...]
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Drug use should be treated more as an illness than a crime, the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said as he claimed a decline in the production of cocaine and heroin worldwide. “People who take drugs need medical help, not criminal retribution,” said Antonio Maria Costa, director of UNODC, calling for [...]
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Overfishing threatens to drive a third of the world’s open-ocean shark species to extinction, say conservationists. Hammerheads, giant devil rays and porbeagle sharks are among 64 species on the first ever red list for oceanic sharks produced by the World Conservation Union (IUCN). Sharks are vulnerable because they can take decades to mature and they [...]
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