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ANURAG CHAUHAN: YOUNG BODY, OLD SOUL
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The Past 15 Years — And What Remains To Be Done.
Achievements include more children surviving past their fifth birthdays, fewer cases of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, improvements in child nutrition, higher rates of e...
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Working Moms Have More Successful Daughters And More Caring Sons, Harvard Business School Study Says
it’s looking less and less warranted. According to a working paper (pdf) published June 19 by the Harvard Business School, daughters of working mothers are more likely t...
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Citizen Media Shows Why India Is Unlikely To Reach Its Millennium Goals Target For Maternal Mortality
According to the UN Millennium Development Goals, India should bring down its maternal mortality rate (MMR) to 109 per 100,000 live births by 2015. This is a tough ask, as fro...
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The EPA Outlines Our Choices On Global Warming: Moderate Disaster Or Major Disaster.
This week, the EPA released a major report that tried to tally up the specific benefits to the United States if the whole world took action on climate change. Fewer deaths fro...
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Improving Humanitarian Aid How To Make Relief More Efficient ?And Effective
Every month, nearly one million people flee their homes because of conflicts or natural disasters. With few wars ending, and new wars starting, the number of people displaced ...
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From Ragpicker To Speaker In Geneva Conference
Suman More’s life has been a rags-to-recognition journey. As an illiterate, impoverished ragpicker from Pune, the 50-year-old could never have imagined that she would on...
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Maternal And Infant Health: The Urban Disadvantage
Medscape: This year’s report noted that child mortality rates are at least twice as high among poor urban children compared with their richer counterparts—a gap th...
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New Research Warns Of Catastrophic Food Shortages Due To Unchecked Climate Change
New research supported by the United Kingdom?s Foreign Office and insurer Lloyd?s of London finds that, absent major changes, humanity risks a catastrophic collapse in its abi...
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The First Graphene Light Bulb Is Also The 'World's Thinnest' Light Bulb
On your rapidly diminishing list of things graphene cannot improve, go ahead and cross off “light bulbs.” An international team of researchers drawn from Columbia ...
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‘Gilmore Girls’ Creator Has Strong Words For Women In Hollywood: ‘It’s Up To Them’
“Gilmore Girls” was ground-breaking in many ways. It was a show that celebrated women, family and small-town New England. But perhaps its greatest contribution to ...
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