LIONS' DEN OR WHITE ELEPHANT?
By David Williams
We will have several white elephants on our hands after the once-in-a-lifetime soccer extravaganza is over - and the origin of the term "white elephant" is instructive. Elephants of this colour are very rare but not unknown, and the...

BIRD ON A WIRE
By Peter Wilhelm
The 1960s have truly disappeared - perhaps out of embarrassment, since the wrong choices and pallid thinking of that decade have been replaced by mythology and a belief that it was a time of sexual freedom and (diluted) revolution. ...

GUILT-EDGED PERFORMANCE
By David Furlonger
We all know the jokes about Porsche drivers and how they buy the cars to cover supposed deficiencies: chiefly lack of self-confidence and (I'm trying to be polite here) limited stature in the trouser department. I laugh as heartily...

BELLY FAT CAN BE BENEFICIAL
By Linda Stafford
Down-to-earth Virginia Hopkins, whose eponymous Health Watch online magazine shares useful and commonsense information about health and nutrition based on solid scientific research, has good news for middle-aged women battling t...

TAKE A LOAD OFF THOSE KNEES
By Yvonne Fontyn
Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis, causing pain, swelling and reduced motion in the joints. Being overweight has been linked to this degenerative joint disease, according to the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medici...

SLEEP AFFECTS YOUR DIET
By Linda Stafford
It seems how you sleep affects what you eat. Orfeu M Buxton, from the Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts, and colleagues studied 542 male motor freight workers to ascertain how sleep adequacy and workplace experiences influenced f...

ONE IS SO YUM
By JUSTICE MALALA
My one and only lovely wife and I felt a great need to escape what the presidency has been referring to as "the events of the past week" - meaning the head of state's indiscretion with yet another friend's daughter - so we ...