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Sustainable Development

What Do The Global Goals Mean For Girls?

17 is a magic number. Apollo 17 went to the moon, Michelle Obama was born on January 17, John Lennon met Paul McCartney when he was 17, and I am 17 years old. But perhaps m...

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Gender

What Is The Gender Gap In Graduate Earnings?

A new study using big data has confirmed that those who complete university can expect to earn, on average, a decent premium for their degree. This alone won’t come a...

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Festivals

Kadambari' Wins Best Film Award At Washington South Asian Film Festival

“Kadambari”, a Bengali film centred around Kadambari Devi, sister-in-law of Rabindranath Tagore with whom he is supposed to have had a close personal relationsh...

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Hollywood

Shakira And Angélique Kidjo Support A New Development Era For Children

Shakira and Angélique Kidjo celebrated the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals last week with powerful performances before an audience at the United Nation...

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Bollywood

Akshay Kumar Meets Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, Talks About Drought Hit Farmers.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today met Akshay Kumar here after he was informed the Bollywood superstar helped raiseFUNDS for families of 100 drought-hit farmers in ...

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Trending

See-Through Zebrafish Offer a Window Into the Chilling Creep of Meningitis

The various forms of meningitis (viral, bacterial, fungal) prey on those with weak immune systems: children, the elderly, and those with existing illnesses. HIV patients an...

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Health

Creating Real Change For Women And Children In The World's Poorest Communities Requires Innovative Partnerships-

In Kenya, one of the countries where my organization, World Health Partners, works, an average of 17 women die every day from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.Eac...

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Environment

Scientists Urge RICO Investigation Of Corporate Climate Deniers

Climate-change denial has been compared to Big Tobacco?s 50-year-campaign to deny the dangers of cigarettes.Both attempted to muddy the waters of the public discussion by c...

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Sustainable Development

This Smart Glove Translates Sign Language To Text And Speech

Ayoub told me that her motto is always “to design for a cause,” and to produce products that will help a wider community. With the “smart glove,” he...

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Gender

Sheryl Sandberg: When Women Get Stuck, Corporate America Gets Stuck

Using the talents of our full population is critical, writes Lean In founder Sheryl Sandberg At the current pace of progress, we are more than 100 years away from gender eq...

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