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It was with much interest that my eye strayed last week to a story on the BBC website with the headline “Penguin scraps degree requirement.”

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Just when earthlings assumed that David Bowie would, as Dylan Thomas cautioned, go gently into the night, he turns his spacecraft around and points it back at the moon.

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Do not go gentle into that good night…Rage, rage against the dying light…

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I am delighted to be visiting the Philippines next week on behalf of the British government, of which I am the cabinet member with responsibility for Wales, one of the four constituent nations of the United Kingdom.

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How much of the outside can change the age of your inside?

[DatePublished] => 2012-07-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133961 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1482218 [AuthorName] => Ma. Isabel Garcia [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 732865 [Title] => Tethered to the Cloud [Summary] =>

Last week’s onslaught from Typhoon Pedring and the day-long power outage that followed reminded me  among millions of other Manileños  how dependent we are on our digital devices, which are in turn, dependent on what the poet Dylan Thomas might have described in another time as “the surge that through the green fuse drives the flower.”

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/1092/lif1thumbz.jpg ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 408213 [Title] => 2010: Last chance for Baby Boomers? [Summary] =>

It is easy to see why the US election is so important. The US — still the world’s largest economy — stands on the brink of economic disaster, and could take the rest of the world with it.

[DatePublished] => 2008-10-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134370 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1390801 [AuthorName] => Jim Paredes [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6544/stratlif1thumbxr3.jpg ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 272869 [Title] => Pulling the feeding tube [Summary] => One lesson from the tragedy of Terri Schiavo: give your loved ones clear instructions early on about what to do in case you have the misfortune of lapsing into a "persistent vegetative state."

It’s macabre, but it could save your loved ones a lot of grief. We all have to go one day, some unexpectedly much sooner than others. Seeing what has happened to Schiavo and her family, I now consider such instructions as important as getting funeral and cremation insurance (which I already have).
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 258554 [Title] => JEWELS THAT SIT WELL [Summary] => Isn’t she a poisonous thing of a woman, lying, concealing, flipping, plagiarizing, misquoting and being as clever a crooked literary publicist as ever?" So said Dylan Thomas of the poet and eccentric Edith Sitwell who was famous, no doubt, but obviously not popular with everyone. She was definitely a splendid icon of her day and like many of the most impressive of icons was unknowable in age and encrusted in gems. From her earliest years, she was deeply aware of her curious apartness from the ordinary world. [DatePublished] => 2004-07-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 209437 [Title] => On word processing [Summary] => I got asked again a few days ago in an online forum about what word processor I used.
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DYLAN THOMAS
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                    [Title] => Degrees and diplomas
                    [Summary] => 

It was with much interest that my eye strayed last week to a story on the BBC website with the headline “Penguin scraps degree requirement.”

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-24 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1542918 [Title] => Ashes to ashes, stardust to stardust [Summary] =>

Just when earthlings assumed that David Bowie would, as Dylan Thomas cautioned, go gently into the night, he turns his spacecraft around and points it back at the moon.

[DatePublished] => 2016-01-15 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133515 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Supreme [SectionUrl] => supreme [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1366931 [Title] => Tony goes gently into the night [Summary] =>

Do not go gentle into that good night…Rage, rage against the dying light…

[DatePublished] => 2014-09-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134227 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1697794 [AuthorName] => Ricky Lo [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 919461 [Title] => A tale of modern identity [Summary] =>

I am delighted to be visiting the Philippines next week on behalf of the British government, of which I am the cabinet member with responsibility for Wales, one of the four constituent nations of the United Kingdom.

[DatePublished] => 2013-03-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134680 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1249312 [AuthorName] => David Jones [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 831415 [Title] => Could we change our brain's age? [Summary] =>

How much of the outside can change the age of your inside?

[DatePublished] => 2012-07-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133961 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1482218 [AuthorName] => Ma. Isabel Garcia [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 732865 [Title] => Tethered to the Cloud [Summary] =>

Last week’s onslaught from Typhoon Pedring and the day-long power outage that followed reminded me  among millions of other Manileños  how dependent we are on our digital devices, which are in turn, dependent on what the poet Dylan Thomas might have described in another time as “the surge that through the green fuse drives the flower.”

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/1092/lif1thumbz.jpg ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 408213 [Title] => 2010: Last chance for Baby Boomers? [Summary] =>

It is easy to see why the US election is so important. The US — still the world’s largest economy — stands on the brink of economic disaster, and could take the rest of the world with it.

[DatePublished] => 2008-10-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134370 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1390801 [AuthorName] => Jim Paredes [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6544/stratlif1thumbxr3.jpg ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 272869 [Title] => Pulling the feeding tube [Summary] => One lesson from the tragedy of Terri Schiavo: give your loved ones clear instructions early on about what to do in case you have the misfortune of lapsing into a "persistent vegetative state."

It’s macabre, but it could save your loved ones a lot of grief. We all have to go one day, some unexpectedly much sooner than others. Seeing what has happened to Schiavo and her family, I now consider such instructions as important as getting funeral and cremation insurance (which I already have).
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 258554 [Title] => JEWELS THAT SIT WELL [Summary] => Isn’t she a poisonous thing of a woman, lying, concealing, flipping, plagiarizing, misquoting and being as clever a crooked literary publicist as ever?" So said Dylan Thomas of the poet and eccentric Edith Sitwell who was famous, no doubt, but obviously not popular with everyone. She was definitely a splendid icon of her day and like many of the most impressive of icons was unknowable in age and encrusted in gems. From her earliest years, she was deeply aware of her curious apartness from the ordinary world. [DatePublished] => 2004-07-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 209437 [Title] => On word processing [Summary] => I got asked again a few days ago in an online forum about what word processor I used.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) ) )
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