Therapist creates puzzle book for senior citizens (Abilene Reporter-News)
We do crosswords, word jumbles and the like to keep our brains sharp, we hope. But for the oldest among us, those types of puzzles may eventually be too difficult.

Cathleen Falsani: EPIPHANY: Celebrating Moments of Truth (HuffingtonPost)
Realizing that you're happy in your own skin, where you're meant to be, glad to be shod of something unhealthy, and everything is going to be OK, is a profound truth.

Back to forward (Al-Ahram Weekly)
Though Harold Pinter cannot be said to have had the same profound influence on Egyptian and Arab drama as say Brecht, Beckett or Pirandello, his death as 2008 was drawing to a close has deeply saddened the theatre community and many theatre lovers and intellectuals in Egypt and other Arab countries.

Exclusive extract of Henning Mankell's Italian Shoes (Independent)
I always feel more lonely when it's cold. The cold outside my window reminds me of the cold emanating from my own body. I'm being attacked from two directions. But I'm constantly resisting. That's why I cut a hole in the ice every morning. If anyone were to stand with a telescope on the ice in the frozen bay and saw what I was doing, he would think that I was crazy and was about to arrange my ...

2008 global financial crisis: how pragmatism trumped orthodoxy (New Zimbabwe)
Posted to the web: 30/12/2008 03:28:14 THE puzzle that perhaps many have not asked is why the world economy slipped into the most excruciating financial and economic crisis in modern times in 2008, in the presence and abundance of the traditional “optimal� theories of refined macroeconomic management?