Anyone planning to drive in Europe should note that Ireland isn’t the risky place it used to be. The Environment Department’s safety education strategy, introduced in 1998, has helped reduce fatalities.
Last year 413 people died in car crashes on Ireland’s frequently narrow, dangerous roads.
However, that’s a far cry
Although scientific studies have shown certain teaching methods improve student learning and performance, those in the education establishment have failed to adopt these methods. In fact, they have been openly hostile towards them. Education decision-makers in the United States have been critical of objective studies, opting instead to base their
Millions of the world’s poor have staked their tents on land they hold as squatters, but with no legal title. They build shelters, then houses, and establish micro-businesses serving the needs of the other squatters. However, because they have no title to the land, they have no access to credit
According to a new study, high-quality preschool programs cause changes in brain biology that have been linked to future school success and less criminal behaviour.
The report, by neuroscientist Adrian Raine of the University of Southern California, was presented to the Society for Psycho-physiological Research. Raine matched 100 three-year-olds with 100
Noted U.S. energy expert Daniel Yergin sees no evidence of an energy crisis at present and makes the point that what we are experiencing is really a price shock – which he sees as probably temporary. Predictions of petroleum shortages have been intermittent for almost the entire history of the
European countries have abolished capital punishment. But that’s not because European voters are against it. Indeed, poll after poll shows that ordinary European citizens favour it almost as much as American voters.
In Britain, opinion polls have shown that between two-thirds and three-quarters of the population favours the death penalty
The extinction of species may be a slower and more complex process than scientists at one time expected. Many species find ways to prolong life and even make small comebacks from near-extinction. Species’ doggedness at hanging on has become an embarrassment to many ecologists and conservation biologists.
Two decades ago in
The number of free or mostly free economies in the world has increased throughout the seven years the Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal have published their annual Index of Economic Freedom But unfree economies still outnumber those that are basically free.
Eighty-one of the world’s economies remain mostly unfree
The three times personal U.S. income tax rates were slashed in the 20th century, it was predicted that the federal government would lose revenues and the affluent would benefit. But instead, each time, federal revenues increased after tax rates were cut, especially taxes paid by the top 1 percent of
New U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data obtained by the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) show that the top one percent of American tax filers (by income) paid a larger share of federal personal income tax revenues in 1998 than the previous year.
“The data publicly released by the JEC today reflect
