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Do puns and jokes make you more intelligent

Ginbottle asks:A. That's debatable, and it may depend on whether you're making them up or telling them. Or, indeed, whether you get the joke or not. However, there's a theory that being intelligent00:00 Mon 19th Mar 2001

Elephant and Castle or Infanta of Castile

A. The Elephant and Castle, an important road junction in south-east London with brutal 60s architecture and a pink shopping centre, is said to be corrupted from the name Infanta of Castile,00:00 Thu 08th Mar 2001

What is there to see and do in Arizona

Q. What is there to see and do in Arizona, asked Candy A. The area dates back to about 300BC when the dry landscape yielded crops for the Hohokom people. Later small groups of Indians eeked out00:00 Mon 05th Mar 2001

Visually arresting, sensually challenging

by Nicola Shepherd FROM the beautiful to the bizarre, the best current and upcoming visual arts offerings from home and all around the world. The Tate GalleryStarting in London, the exhibiiton at00:00 Mon 12th Feb 2001

Big babies are brainier

By Merill Haseen IT SEEMS that brains are something you're born with, after all. New research shows that the bigger the baby when it's born, the brainier it is likely to be. Four thousand people who00:00 Mon 05th Feb 2001

Can't quite place it

By Steve Cunningham HERE, at The AnswerBank, we see a wide range of people & places questions, from the puzzling and fascinating to the frankly unbelievable. Here's a selection of the best and the00:00 Thu 25th Jan 2001

Beep, beep, beep - get the message

By Christina Okoli ARE you GR8, 1DRFL, :-) , :-( , or just confused Well, while the world was busy sightseeing in cyberspace, a new generation of mobile phone devotees were busy creating a whole00:00 Mon 22nd Jan 2001

Economy class syndrome

By Merill Haseen DEEP vein thrombosis (DVT), also known as 'Economy Class Syndrome' can strike anyone who is immobile for long periods of time. It's caused by a blood clot which forms in the leg,00:00 Mon 22nd Jan 2001

Asthma and overweight children

By Merill Haseen A NEW study shows that children have a higher risk of getting asthma if they are overweight. Scientists from King's College, London, studied 15,000 children, aged between four and00:00 Mon 22nd Jan 2001

Best and worst hospitals revealed

THE GOVERNMENT has reiterated its determination to increase the number of doctors in the National Health Service. This follows the publication of a report that revealed huge discrepancies in the00:00 Mon 15th Jan 2001

The most powerful man in the world

By Steve Cunningham ALAN Greenspan has pressed the panic button and cut American interest rates in an attempt to head off looming recession. Press Association Alan GreenspanBut who is the00:00 Tue 09th Jan 2001

A nation of emotional hypochondriacs

Feeling stressed-out by work and in need of help "Oh no you aren't," say doctors. Thinking of suing your bosses Don't bother, says new research For years employees have blamed all sorts of00:00 Wed 03rd Jan 2001

They went to bed in a town and awoke in a city

By Steve Cunningham BRITAIN gained hundreds of thousands of city slickers this month. City status was conferred by the government upon Wolverhampton, Inverness and Brighton and Hove. Reasons for00:00 Thu 21st Dec 2000