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Environment

These Bicycles Eat Smog & Spit Out Clean Air

Bike sharing programs in China are big right now. There are over 30 Chinese start-ups and one of the largest of them all, Ofo, has about 2.2 million bikes in 43 cities. Daa...

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Environment

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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Alternative Entertainment

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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Human Rights

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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Kaleidoscope

Streets Paved With Gloom

 A few years ago, there was a huge wave of workers going from Kerala to the Gulf countries in search of better prospects. It would not ...

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Hollywood

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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Human Rights

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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Hollywood

Superheroes & Villains Delight Crowds - And Sleep On The Streets

Many tourists take pictures with the characters lining Hollywood Boulevard, but few know about the dangers and instability the impersonators face n a parking lot off Hollyw...

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Human Rights

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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Sustainable Development

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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