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Health

A Solar Suitcase Reduces Maternal Mortality Rates

In an age where hundreds of women still die every day in childbirth, light can provide a genuine lifeline. A pioneering solar project is delivering hope to doctors, midwive...

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Environment

There's One Thing That Could Make The Zika Virus Much More Dangerous — Climate Change

The mosquito-born Zika virus was declared an international public health emergency last week — a designation last used for Ebola — and could infect as many as 4...

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Health

The Zika Declaration

THE Zika virus has been the predominant item across news agencies this past couple of weeks. Until the outbreak in Brazil in May last year (2015), most of us can probably s...

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Sustainable Development

Instead Of Killing Mosquitoes, Why Don’t We Edit The Viruses Out Of Them?

In the fight against zika—the mosquito-spread virus recently declared an international public health emergency due to its potential link with a brain deformity in inf...

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Gender

21 Leaders 2016 – Meet Three Powerhouses Who Get the Word Out

While waiting at a Calcutta hospital in 1985, MallikaDutt noticed something strange about the women's unit: it was full of burn victims. Dutt, who grew up in India and was ...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - Book Lovers’ Books

For bibliophiles, books about book lovers offer an additional thrill…of belonging to a special community that lives its own universe of words.

The idea o...

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Trending

Famed Architect Shigeru Ban Builds Quake-Proof Homes From Rubble In Nepal

TOKYO – After twin earthquakes in April and May claimed 9,000 lives and left vast swathes of Nepal in ruins, survivors worried if they reused the brick rubble, they w...

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Retroscope

Retroscope - The Healing Touch

The following is no filmy story. But it has the possibility of inspiring a Raju Hirani or a Vidhu Vinod Chopra with a central character who is as delightful as Munnabhai an...

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Hollywood

Elizabeth Taylor Ran a Safe House, Underground Drug Ring for HIV Patients

The late Elizabeth Taylor is remembered for many things: her violet eyes, her acting chops?and saltiness. But something that usually doesn?? make it in the same breath when...

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Festivals

Tunisia's Film Festival Opens Amid Tight Security

Tunisia’s Carthage Film Festival, where Arab and African cinematographers showcase their work, opened amid heavy security Saturday in a country rocked this ...

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