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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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Your First Look At The Souped-Up, Siri-Powered Apple TV.

THE APPLE TV isn’t really about TV. It’s not even really about what it can do right now, or what it’ll be able to do when it launches in October (whi...

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Health

Breaking The Cycle Of Malnutrition: Healthy Mothers Produce Healthy Babies

Every baby in the womb eats what its mother does, or more accurately derives its essential nutrients from her. Thus, even mild maternal malnutrition can impair fetal develo...

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Festivals

South Africa: Back With a Bang - South African Recovery Film Festival

They say the third time’s the charm, and this might just be true for the Cape Town Recovery Film Festival, rebranded this year as the South African Recovery Film Fest...

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Festivals

Danny Boyle confirms Trainspotting sequel at Telluride film festival

Promoting new movie Steve Jobs, the director says followup to 1996 tale of Edinburgh heroin addicts will be his next project.
Danny Boyle has confirmed plans for a Tra...

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Hollywood

Jeff Foxworthy Honored For Fight Against Childhood Cancer

Aflac, the leading provider of voluntary insurance at the work site in the United States, today honored three heroes who have left a giant footprint in the fight against ch...

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Bollywood

Vivek Oberoi joins PM Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan via sanitation project

Vivek Oberoi dedicates his birthday to a cause every year, and this year it was no different. The actor-philanthropist, who turned 39 on Thursday, announced a sanitation in...

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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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