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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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Gender

A New Ratings System Will Assess Schooling For Girls Worldwide

An advocacy group set up by Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and Foreign Policy Magazine are launching an annual index to assess the availability and quality of ed...

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Gender

Why More Mediators Should Be Women?

The significance of 2015 continently and globally in the drive for women’s empowerment and the achievement of gender equality provides a useful backdrop to assess eff...

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Bollywood

Vidya Balan: Women’s Empowerment First Personal, Then National Issue

She says empowerment is a cause which must be personal for every woman before it is regarded as a national issue. “I think we have a long way to go before every woman...

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Environment

These Ecuadorians Want to Seize Chevron's Canadian Assets

The villagers are trying to collect on a nearly $10 billion judgement by Ecuador's courts against Chevron, claiming they suffer from lingering health problems from toxic oi...

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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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Festivals

Imagine SLS Disability Film Festival Announces Date

Imagine Supported Living Services, a local nonprofit, announces the 4th year of its Annual Disability Short Film Festival. Imagine serves the Santa Cruz community by empowe...

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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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Festivals

BFI London Film Festival Unveils Lineup For 59th Edition

Netflix’s “Beasts of No Nation” is set to continue its festivals run with a slot in the official competition section of the BFI London Film Festival, whic...

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Bollywood

Raveena Tandon Unveils ‘Gofolic’ Campaign

Actress Raveena Tandon may not be making too many appearances on the silver screen but the actress is definitely active on social networking sites as well as spotted at man...

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