Indeed, authors like Fidler (2003) have argued that global health threats such as SARS and the Mexican influenza H1N1 have ended the primacy of the Westphalian state, and that the boundaries of democracy have to be redefined beyond the nation state and public sector alone for effective future use.

In February, 1861, I was afflicted with the sugar diabetes.

However, one cannot help finding some similarity between these sharp words and those which became familiar when - well before the oil crisis - the fight between the scheduleds and non-scheduleds was in full swing.

This [the Eucharist] is not a physical food but a spiritual one, the very Body and Blood of Christ, offered for them as viaticum for their earthly journey. It is the daily bread which the faithful should ask for and eat [every]-day, more hungry and eager for it than for earthly bread.