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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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Hollywood

Film Highlights Women Who Define American Culture.

Meet 15 women who have created and defined contemporary American culture in American Masters: The Women’s List, premiering nationwide Friday, September 25, 9-10 p.m. ...

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Environment

Tens of Thousands of Stranded Walruses Are Once Again Gathering in Alaska

With the sea ice where they rest and hunt melted away, thousands of walruses have once again flooded the shoreline near the village of Point Lay, Alaska. The massings, whic...

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Health

Why Tamil Nadu Is The Best State In India For New Mothers.

For decades, successive governments in this state have focused on improving healthcare access for pregnant women. Kayalvizhi Sundar, 25, beams as she comes out of the Gover...

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Health

Why Tamil Nadu Is The Best State In India For New Mothers.

For decades, successive governments in this state have focused on improving healthcare access for pregnant women. Kayalvizhi Sundar, 25, beams as she comes out of the Gover...

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Sustainable Development

What Is a Gravitational Wave Detector, and Why Do We Want to Send One to Space?

Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime. They’re a prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, but while we’ve seen indirect eviden...

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Hollywood

Pamela Anderson Urges M.A.C. To Stop Animal Tests.

Former Viva Glam M.A.C. model Pamela Anderson is appealing to the cosmetics company to resume its cruelty-free policy and stop paying for animal tests. M.A.C. — along...

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Bollywood

Will Sanjay Gupta Strike With Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s Jazbaa, His First ‘Female Hero’ Film?

What’s the common factor tying Sanjay Gupta to his films? Well, other than an inherent style quotient, it is the presence of a super-strong male protagonist that make...

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Health

India Performs Badly In Breastfeeding, Ensuring Healthy Diet To Children

India has shown little improvement in breastfeeding infants and ensuring healthy diet to young children, a report by the Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India (BPNI) and...

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Gender

Male Kindergarten Teachers Defy Gender Assumptions

I neutered God in my family’s dinner prayer. It’s the same prayer I recited growing up as a Lutheran, but now that I’m raising two girls, I switched out t...

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