Public services is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing private provision of services.

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magazine article: R. Buckminster Fuller should be a model for everybody, but not a person we should think of as special or better than us. Read article

word game: Medical services puns A pun is an amusing use of a word or phrase which has several meanings or which sounds like another word. Play word game

poem: This ballad by ‘Banjo’ Paterson shows what an enormous task it was delivering mail in a country as vast as Australia before modern technologies existed. Read poem

cartoon: "I don't like working for the Internal Revenue Service" See cartoon

trivia: Proverb He who is hungry is never a good civil servant. (Chinese Proverb) See more public services trivia

poll: Which public service needs most improvement where you live? See results

science: cubed. Hospital robots: A new Scottish hospital plans to employ a staff of super-efficient robots. Read story

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Wikipedia: public services
Directgov: straight through to public services in the UK
HowStuffWorks: public works channel
Wikipedia: British Civil Service

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