In our competitive societies, "lasting" has come to mean outlasting. "I've outlived my father and both grandfathers!" "According to my doctor, I should have been dead three years ago."
With some anticipation and appetite, what accounting can we apply to the resulting extra flavor of an apple pie? What about the extra refreshment of a cold beer after a hard work-out?
In 1959, a social scientist named Vance Packard theorized that magazine ads of ice cubes in glasses of liquor suggested parts of a woman's anatomy.
West Cork, Ireland. I woke up one morning with a previous day's session on my mind, and a recurring sense of the need for a more organic and holistic approach to the understanding of mental illness.
An interesting and important debate has been taking place in the pages of the British Medical Journal (http://www.bmj.com) which goes to the heart of the internet promise or nightmare.
