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Sustainable Development

Zen And The Art Of Dying Well

What is the ?right? way to die? We?re experiencing a zeitgeist moment about that. ?Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,? by Atul Gawande, is a best-selling b...

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Health

Milestones In Indian Healthcare

The last 16 years have been eventful for India, dotted with significant achievements and failures. The recently released United Nations Development Programme’s Human ...

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Gender

A Kabaddi Tournament Helps Break Gender Barriers

For many of the families of Shivaji Nagar, even the idea of girls entering the playground without an accompanying male family member was alien. When Sabiya Sheikh tried to ...

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Health

Recycling Unused Medicines To Save Money And Lives

It always troubled Deane Kirchner to throw away good medicine. When residents of the Lincoln Glen long-term facility in San Jose, Calif., where she is the director of nursi...

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How Smart Animal Shelters Aim For ‘Zero Kill’

When Tracey Durning first met her dog, Fred, in an animal shelter in New York City in 1995, he looked underfed and was shaking uncontrollably. A five-year-old terrier mix w...

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Health

The Human Incubator

Sometimes, the best way to progress isn’t to advance — to step up with more MONEY, more technology, more modernity. It’s to retreat. Towards the end of th...

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Top 5

Prime Time, Reality Bites

Prime Time has a plethora of fiction shows which are simply entertainment, entertainment, entertainment; barring the odd show or two. One can’t overlook the non-ficti...

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Government Brings 376 Drugs Under New List Of Essential Medicines

The Health Ministry has drawn up the revised National List of Essential Medicines which has seen the number of medicines go up to 376 from 348 in the earlier list prepared ...

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Environment

The Top 6 Good-News Stories of 2015

This is a tough time to feel optimistic about the future. With the notable exception of impressive global cooperation on climate change and energy, our papers and screens h...

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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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