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Health

What Makes Community Health Care Work?

In response to Tuesday’s column about two programs in India that train relatively uneducated women as their villages’ health workers, readers provided an avalan...

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Environment

The World Is Running Out of Water

Humans are depleting underground aquifers around the world at alarming rates, threatening hundreds of millions of people who rely on them for survival, according to a compr...

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Apple Music To Be Launched Across 100 Countries Including India On June 30. Separate App for Android Users Planned

Right from the start, Apple was more or less interested in creating their own eco-system, a separate Universe wherein both the content and the hardware are provided by Appl...

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Thought Factory

TECHNOLOGY AND THE MEDIA

“Give me liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties”, thundered John Milton in his famous Areopagitica, his essa...

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Movies

San Andreas

Critic’s Rating : 3.5 Star.

Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Paul Giamatti, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Hugo Johnstone-Burt. Read More

Gender

Thousands Of Women Sign Petition Against The ‘Tampon Tax’

After nearly 100,000 people signed a petition demanding to “remove the unfair tampon tax,” some Australian officials are considering a policy change to exempt s...

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Sustainable Development

Microbeads Kill Animals And Destroy The Environment — So California May Ban Them

The many cosmetic and personal hygiene products that contain tiny plastic pellets in their creams and gels appear to be on the verge of being banned in California, after th...

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Environment

A 10,000-Year-Old Ice Shelf in Antarctica Is Disintegrating

What’s left of Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf, at least 10,000 years old and 27 times the size of Manhattan, is weakening quickly and likely to disintegrate wi...

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How to Attract Female Engineers.

THE figures are well known: At Apple 20 percent of tech jobs are held by women and at Google, only 17 percent. A report by the Congressional Joint Economic Committee estima...

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Environment

We're a Long Way From Earthquake Predictions

For some seismologists, the deadly tremor that hit Nepal on Saturday came as little surprise. "It's been well known in the seismological world that the Himalayan system is ...

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