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The Swedish approach:
Adopting a zero target for road accidents
Road accidents in Sri Lanka cause economic losses
worth over Rs. 9.34 billion each year. According to Sri Lanka
Traffic Police sources, in 2010, 2,630 people died in road accidents
while 2,684 such deaths were reported in 2011. The number of
non-grievous road accidents last year was 18,331 while during the
first four months of this year, 6,099 non-grievous road accidents
took place.
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Vignettes
Unfolding drama in human psyche
It was William Shakespeare who said that the
world is a stage and we are actors. Centuries later, the renowned
psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud added a rider to what the Bard had said.
According to Freud, there are three actors within us. They are
called the Id, Ego and Superego.
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Thorns on the Side
Towards ‘healthy’ education
A couple of months ago, I was driving past a
Colombo school around its closing time. Schoolchildren in crisp
white uniforms streamed past and one youngster was carrying a
trolley bag, the type you would carry on a foreign trip. For a
moment, I thought he was actually going to the airport.
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