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Meryl Streep To Members Of Congress: Put The Equal Rights Amendment Into The Constitution.

In support of a new ERA Coalition campaign, yesterday five hundred thirty-five letters personally signed by Meryl Streep were delivered to each and every Member of Congress...

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Sustainable Development

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 o...

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Gender

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 likel...

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Health

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 ...

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Bollywood

I Am Mr. Mother' Team Seeks Aamir Khan's Support

Director I.A. Siddique and lead actor Gabriel Vats of upcoming film “I Am Mr. Mother” have penned a letter, requesting superstar Aamir Khan to lend support to t...

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Sustainable Development

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 Columb...

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Sustainable Development

How Transhumanist Tech Will Correct Reality's Typos.

It’s commonplace while reading to have one’s concentration disrupted by a spelling error or typo. Sometimes that disruption causes us to discredit the material ...

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Health

Fatherhood And Maternal Health: An Overlooked But Lifesaving Connection

It goes without saying that Father’s Day is a time to celebrate the important role that a father plays in his children’s lives. As a father (and, recently, a gr...

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TV

NEW SHOWS, FRESH LOOK

June-July is traditionally the time for new shows. In fact, SAB TV jumped the gun in early June with an unusual RomCom, a very silent Rumm Pumm Po, with music only ? every ...

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Sustainable Development

Engineers Stumble On A Whole New Method Of Laser-Based Spacecraft Propulsion

A team of Chinese physicists has developed a new variety of light-based propulsion system with the ability to harness much greater forces than a conventional solar sail. Th...

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