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Life wouldn't have been wasted if I didn't get the Nobel: Amartya Sen

Business Standard 

There are greater goals in life than winning the Nobel Prize. At least, there ought to be. Or so, feels Nobel laureate thinker-philosopher-welfare economist Professor Amartya Sen who dubbed the award as a "nice thing to have", but opined that his life wouldn't have been wasted even without it. Sen said that the money he received from the prize helped him start Pratichi Trust, a research-based charity focussing on education and healthcare of children. "Nobel is an award I received but I don't think... Читать дальше...

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Horse And Hound 

This family home is in a wonderful location and provides comfortable living space, 28 acres and plenty of stables for your horses. Cobden Farm is in a quiet rural spot approximately two-and-a-half miles to the east of St. Giles on the Heath village in Devon. Roadford Lake is approximately three miles away, which offers horse […]

Can a word have an existential crisis?

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Can a word have an existential crisis?

A while back, a philosopher friend of mine was fretting about the adjective “existential.” She was irked by people using it to refer to situations which threaten the existence of something, as when someone refers to climate change as an “existential crisis,” or more commonly, as “an existential threat.”

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Kogi NMA suspends chairman

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The Nigerian Medical Association, Kogi State Chapter, has suspended its Chairman, Dr  Olusola Baoku, for alleged constitutional, administrative and financial infringements. At an emergency congress held in Lokoja, the state capital, on Saturday, a former Chairman of NMA Dr. David Ayemila, told journalists that a committee has been constituted to hold sway till August 11,

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