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Ta’ Cenc Is all our back garden

Monday, 16 January 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

Just consider this quote from the UK Sunday Times Style magazine, describing the rise of the children of the posh middle classes against over-development in the British countryside, the protests against world ...

The Cult Of Greed

Sunday, 15 January 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

“Greed is good. Greed is right. Greed works!” said the infamous Gordon Gekko to a hall packed with awe-struck shareholders. ...

A Sense of history or what?

Sunday, 15 January 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Those of us who thoroughly enjoyed history at school, often had to take on the cynics and the mathematicians among our colleagues not only over its validity ...

E(W)REKA!

Sunday, 15 January 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Count to five in English. Five short words. Now take a deep breath and count to five in Maltese. It takes almost twice as long because four of the five numbers in Maltese have two syllables....

E Seksi artikil

Sunday, 15 January 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Tudej, aj em rajting maj kolimm in Multiz. Ez e gajdlajn, aj em juzink njuspejpers ritten in di (sori, der iz no ekwivelent to di ‘th’ sawnd) Multiz lengwigg, e...

The Worm in the apple

Sunday, 15 January 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

For politicians as well as the media, it is standard operating procedure at year’s end and in the first weeks of a new year to survey the past and to take measure of the future....

Dr Gonzi’s Charm offensive

Saturday, 14 January 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

There was more than meets the eye in the “warm welcome” extended to MLP Leader Alfred Sant, and his entourage, at the Nationalist Party headquarters in the first week of the New Year....

Friday Wisdom : Open Bars and closed minds

Friday, 13 January 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

As an ordinary member of society I admit my share of its collective guilt that it is producing adolescents who need to celebrate the ushering in of the New Year through open bar parties....

Notebook

Thursday, 12 January 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

I once told a surgeon that all four of my grandparents ate what they liked, when they liked, and never knowingly took any form of exercise, yet all lived to a very ripe old age indeed. ...

Wind Energy

Wednesday, 11 January 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Some time before the Christmas break, Professor E. Mallia harshly criticised speculation that a 25 per cent reduction of Malta’s fossil fuel consumption for the generation of electricity could possibly be achieved with land-based wind turbines....

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