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Sunday, June 22, 2003
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| THE paradigm shift in
parenting has been that it is no longer effective to use family honour,
religion, fear of God or just parental authority to gain compliance from
youngsters. The focus now has to be on the health risks and
psycho-sexual fallout of behaviour as teenagers are taught to accept
responsibility for their actions, writes Aruti
Nayar. |
Chanceries as
political sanctuaries
K. R. N. Swamy
THE
recent diplomatic incident in New Delhi, in which a son of the
Seneghalese Ambassador to India was accused of killing his Indian
driver, and the resultant diplomatic furore bring into focus the
question of diplomatic immunity to ambassadors and embassies. According
to international rules, "Diplomatic officers accredited to a
foreign government as ambassadors, are immune from the jurisdiction of
all courts of the host state. The families and households of such
diplomatic officers enjoy the same immunity".
Snoring needn’t be
boring
G. Jaya Prakash
EVERYDAY
a new theory is being put forward about snoring. Some of the causes
commonly cited are air obstruction due to narrow nasal passage, enlarged
tonsils, falling back of the tongue, micrognathia (small chin bone),
sedation due to drugs and alcohol, bizarre sleeping posture and so on.
Researchers also warn us about the consequences: divorce, sleep apnoea
(cessation of breathing during sleep), heart diseases, sudden death,
etc.
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