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Environment

Global warming is moistening the atmosphere

Human-caused global warming is causing the upper troposphere to become wetter We have long suspected that greenhouse gases which cause the Earth to warm would lead to a wet...

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Environment

How to Talk About Climate Change So People Will Listen

Not long ago, my newspaper informed me that glaciers in the western Antarctic, undermined by the warmer seas of a hotter world, were collapsing, and their disappearance ?no...

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Health

Using Muslim Clerics to Increase Polio Vaccination in Nigeria

A coalition campaign involving imams, Islamic school teachers, traditional rulers, doctors, journalists, and polio survivors is gradually turning the tide against polio vac...

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Hollywood

Soledad O'Brien To Speak At Texas Conference For Women

The 2014 Texas Conference for Women has announced that Soledad O’Brien – award-winning journalist, documentarian, news anchor and producer – and Diana Nya...

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Eye Think

Read this, and then do the maths: How many mango trees before he can count my tears?

In a distant, sleepy village in Uttar Pradesh, whose name I would have never heard had a lot of politicians and news TV's OB vans not landed there...

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Gender

Read this, and then do the maths: How many mango trees before he can count my tears?

In a distant, sleepy village in Uttar Pradesh, whose name I would have never heard had a lot of politicians and news TV’s OB vans not landed there recently to bring i...

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Environment

Climate change and air pollution will lead to famine by 2050, study claims

The world is expected to need 50 per cent more food by 2050, with around four billion more mouths to feed. But this food could soon be in short supply due to increasing tem...

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TV

That's My Story

Short stories are that form of popular literature which challenges the writer to succinctly and completely narrate what he/she would take a few hundred pages to say. Likewi...

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Hollywood

Margaret Atwood Defends Small Farm Community

A project to change Midhurst, a farming village of 3,500 people, into a suburban city of 30,000 is underway in Ontario, Canada due to a loophole in the provincial governmen...

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Sustainable Development

Where the Girls Went, Where the Boys Came From

In the huge furor that followed the Badaun gang rapes and murders a month ago, cops were suspended and upper caste Yadav suspects arrested, some of whom confessed to the cr...

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