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We Hardly Notice Them But Street Trees Are Monuments To City Life

Every three years, the surgeons come to our street and operate on the plane trees. Their nonchalance is remarkable. First, they loop ropes over the highest branches that th...

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How Jimi Hendrix Set Black Artistes Stone Free

“I get a kick out of playing. It’s the best part of this whole thing, and recording too. I wrote a song called ‘I Don’t Live Today,’ and we go...

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Widows Of India: My Children Threw Me Out Of The House

Self-immolation, sati, on a husband's pyre may have been banned in India, but life for many widows in India is still disheartening as they are shunned by their communities ...

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Paley Centre Honours To Celebrate Women In Media

The Paley Center for Media will focus on the achievements of women in media at its spring Paley Center Honors gala in New York. The May 17 event will include a tribute to C...

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Two Women One Cause

They make an unusual team. Amal Clooney is an Oxford-educated human-rights lawyer married to a film star. Nadia Murad was born in a poor Iraqi village and once aspired to b...

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All Your Favourite Cartoon Characters Are Black

Bugs Bunny, black. Scrappy Doo, black. Elmo, definitely black. An internet friend and I share a deep interest in a specific type of internet culture. Our correspondence is ...

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This Is Not About Gentrification: A Pie Shop Reviving An Anfield Street

As Liverpool FC’s Anfield stadium gleams in the April sunshine, the abandoned, steel-shuttered houses cowering in its shadow serve as a poignant reminder of the impac...

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Hospitalizations Drop Where Laws Restrict Trans Fats

People were less likely to go to the hospital with heart attacks or strokes after several counties in New York State restricted the use of trans fats, according to a new st...

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International Street Artists Give Mumbai, Kochi & Goa A New Look

The facades of peeling plaster walls across the globe have become the favourite backdrop for Julien de Casabianca and his mission to ‘free’ select paintings fro...

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Watch Those Triggers

ANGER

What causes road rage?
Why does one get angry?
What is behind domestic violence?
Can it be controlled?
Why do people make a public display...

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