Corrupt civil servant jailed

"Corrupt civil servant Charles Myton has been jailed for two years having been found guilty of seven counts of forgery, after knowingly countersigning seven fraudulent passport applications. Myton's conviction follows that of another former civil servant, Valentina Costley,...

Teach yourself happy

Emotional Intelligence (EI) “the ability to monitor one's own and others feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions''. Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer (1990) "Lessons in emotions should be introduced in...

A Chinese Orphan Gets Her Bat Mitzvah

What I find particularly awesome about this is that, traditionally, one is only Jewish if one's birth mother is Jewish. That this congregation including adoptive mothers is a very important precedent."Of the 613 laws in the Torah, the one that appears most often is the...

Wife swapping in southern China

"It's not an uncommon question for a foreigner in China to field from strangers on trains, planes, buses, sidewalks, and in stores and cafes. The urge for Chinese men, women, and children alike to learn better English, even randomly and at inopportune moments, is strong. In...

Messages From Creepy Online Sexual Predators

Perverts are using the Internet for sex with minors.

altruism

If this is true, then selfishness is learned in the home, or develops in the home, when the child is very young.