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Years Of Living Dangerously: Merchants Of Doubt hiding An Inconvenient Truth

The Climate Change debate has been active for close to thirty years now. James E Hansen was the first scientist to expose to dangers of climate change when he decided to of...

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Thought Factory

Apathy, Waste And The Rhetoric Of Concern

Rafi Nagar, Deonar, Mumbai
April 2012

The auto-rickshaw stopped at the corner of the narrow road. A large mound of garbag...

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Gender

UN Official Says Women Paid 24 Percent Less Than Men Globally, 30 Percent Less In Asia

A U.N. agency is mounting a worldwide campaign for equal pay for women, who get 24 percent less than men on global average and around 30 percent less for those in Asia. Rec...

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Hollywood

Jimmy Carter Work Project To Build 100 Homes In 1 Week In Nepal

Bringing together 1,500 volunteers from within Nepal and around the world, Habitat For Humanity’s 32nd annual Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project ...

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Trending

Life After Content Blocking

Ad blocking started as an initiative by independent developers who wanted to improve our browsing experience. Now that at least one company, Apple, has made Content Blockin...

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Trending

Medical Testing Is So Hot Right Now. This Startup Wants In

THE CALIFORNIA HEADQUARTERS of Cofactor Genomics is a bright little bungalow a few blocks from downtown Mountain View. Floral vines abuzz with insects and hummingbirds part...

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DD Ratings Increase By 58% On The Back Of New Shows –

Supplemented by a line-up of new shows as well as an advertising campaign, the public service broadcaster’s ratings jumped from 115 in week 32 to 182 in week 33
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Movies

True Review Movie - The Transporter Refueled review

Critics rating: 2 Stars

Cast:  Ed Skrein, Ray Stevenson, Loan Chabanol, Gabriella Wright, Tatjana Pajković, Wenxia Yu, Radi...

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Festivals

Venice Film Festival Offers a Chance to Watch Suffering, Then to Quaff Champagne

“The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context.” So wrote Mary McCarthy in her charming, philosophical tra...

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Health

The United Nations Must Acknowledge That Mental Health Is A Development Goal

Around the world, some of the “treatments” for mental illness include being chained, isolated in a prison cell and physically abused. These human rights violati...

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