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Health

Saving Babies' Lives By Carrying Them Like Kangaroos

Carmela Torres was 18 when she became pregnant for the first time. It was 1987 and she and her now-husband, Pablo Hernandez, were two idealistic young Colombians born in th...

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Environment

Floods And Erosion Are Ruining Britain’s Most Significant Sites

Climate change is already wrecking some of Britain’s most significant sites, from Wordsworth’s gardens in Cumbria to the white cliffs on England’s south c...

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TV

Wah Bachchon, Wah!

I must admit, I am totally hooked on to Peshwa Bajirao. The producers must be lauded for casting a bunch of child actors who are simply outstanding. Sphere Origins has put ...

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Environment

More Than 100 Natural World Heritage Sites Degraded By Human Activity, Says Report

More than 100 of the world’s most precious natural assets are being severely damaged by encroaching human activities, according to a study examining direct human foot...

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Environment

With Crops Withering, Whither Delta Farmer?

For farmers of the delta region of Tamil Nadu, the biggest festival of the year is naturally the harvest festival — Pongal. For each farmer, it is like a wedding in t...

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Sustainable Development

Mathematician Proposes Blocking Tsunamis With Sound Waves

Usama Kadri, a mathematician at Cardiff University in the UK, has published new calculations in the open-access journal Heliyon demonstrating the possibility of neutralizin...

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Environment

Project Aims To Grow A 'City Of Trees'

A project aims to plant three million trees - one for every man, woman and child - in Greater Manchester over the next 25 years. Those behind City of Trees hopes the effort...

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Retroscope

MOTHERHOOD RETOLD

“I remember it being a curiously bewildering phase. A period when I was beginning to feel excluded from the mainstream activities of my family…but it took me a...

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Festivals

Film Festival Puts Spotlight On Local Makers

Saturday has the kind of gray forecast nobody wants to hear - 45, cloudy and rainy. If only someone would organize a free screening of local films in a new, funky space. En...

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Hollywood

Alicia Keys Envisions An End To AIDS In Empowering Africa Campaign

Africa contains 16% of the world’s population, and has over 30% of the world’s remaining natural resources, yet it is also the poorest and most underdeveloped c...

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