Where have all the hippies gone?

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By the 1980s, the hippies seem to have disappeared. The acid tests are over. The flowers are dead. The communes are deserted. Where are the flower children? Where did the idealism go? In this CBC Television clip, ex-hippies Eric Clough and Carol Gaston have an answer. In the late 1960s they founded a community called "The New Family" commune in British Columbia. They had high hopes, but things didn't turn out as planned.

US-Led Economic War, Not Socialism, Is Tearing Venezuela Apart

US-Led Economic War, Not Socialism, Is Tearing Venezuela Apart:

The political and economic crisis facing Venezuela is being endlessly pointed to as proof of the superiority of the free market.

Images and portrayals of Venezuelans rioting in the streets over high food costs, empty grocery stores, medicine shortages, and overflowing garbage bins are the headlines, and the reporting points to socialism as the cause.

Medicare could save 90% on hypertension medications by switching to generic drugs

Medicare could save 90% on hypertension medications by switching to generic drugs:

“Prescription drug spending accounts for an increasing share of U.S. health care costs.” Mathew E. Growdon, MD, MPH, of the division of pharmacoepidemiology in the department of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and colleagues wrote. “Spending can be decreased by substituting generic drugs for identical brand-name drugs (generic substitution) or for brand-name drugs with similar effect (therapeutic interchange).”

The end of medical aid as you know it in South Africa

The end of medical aid as you know it in South Africa:

The revised National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill published on Thursday (8 August) shows that there is little space for medical aid schemes as we currently know them in South Africa.

While minister of Health Dr Zweli Mkhize had previously hinted that medical schemes would play a secondary role to the incoming NHI, the revised bill shows that there may be little room for these multi-billion rand companies to manoeuvre under the new system.

Meet the new wave of sangomas | City Press

Meet the new wave of sangomas | City Press:

Traditional healers are no longer the elusive figures they used to be. Many are modern young women with day jobs, who practise their craft with a passion to heal people. Some are using social media to reach people. Moroetsana Serame spoke to two healers who are breakin