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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

US Catholics Ready To Follow Pope's 'Marching Orders' On Climate Change

Leaders of the Catholic church in America took their ?marching orders? from the pope?s encyclical on Thursday, fanning out to Congress and the White House to push for actio...

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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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Festivals

Martin Scorsese To Receive 2015 Lumière Award

The Oscar-winning director behind “Goodfellas” and “Raging Bull” will receive the honor this October. The 7th annual Lumière Film Festival wi...

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Gender

Selfie With Daughter'

The unique intiative by a village sarpanch in Haryana, known for its dismal sex ratio, has taken the state from notoriety to fame, overnight. In January, Narendra Modi laun...

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Hollywood

Lang Lang Wants Every Child To Get The Best Start In Life

United Nations Messenger of Peace and world renowned pianist, Lang Lang, added his voice to ensure every child has the best start in life and make early childhood developme...

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Bollywood

Vivek Oberoi Gives Support For 100 Girls!

Yet again, Vivek Oberoi has showed his generous heart… The actor-philanthropist has recently supported SHE campaign (Support Her Education) for a skin care brand (Th...

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Trending

Overall Telephone Subscriber Base Rises To 999.71 Million: Trai

The total telephone subscriber base in the country rose marginally to reach 999.71 million at the end of April, on the back of growth in wireless users, sectoral regulator ...

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Health

MD/Phd Student Expanding Research And Advocacy For Health Care In India

UMass Medical School students are working in Gujarat, India, this summer to improve health care in the mostly low-income rural region. They are conducting health disparitie...

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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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