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Sustainable Development

Mechanical Engineer Quits Job To Build Pond In A Village

After quitting his job as an engineer, Shashank Singh decided to take up a development project in rural Rajasthan. Today, he is living in a village, helping rejuvenate a po...

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Environment

The Future Of The Frog Looks Bleak; Unless Humans Change

Amphibians, the oldest group of land vertebrates, are regarded as themost threatened across the globe. From Brazil’s tropical rain forests, to Canada’s temperat...

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Festivals

Italian Film Festival Brings Sampler Of Free Movies To UWM Union Cinema

You've got another great opportunity to sample a country's contemporary movie culture when the 12th edition of the Italian Film Festival comes to the UWM Uni...

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Hollywood

Stars Support LGBTQ Students At Point Honors Gala

More than 400 guests joined Olympians and stars of stage and screen to show their support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) students at the annual P...

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Gender

The Forgotten Women Of 1857

Not just Begum Hazrat Mahal and Rani Lakshmibai but dozens of women participated in active fighting against the British. Their stories are largely unrecorded.
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Health

Global Health Funding Becoming Scarce: Study

People wasting away from AIDS or succumbing to malaria may become an increasingly common sight within the next 25 years, as funding for universal health care shrivels up. Read More

Human Rights

Newspaper By Street-Children Tells Stories Of Lost Childhood

Balak nama has been in circulation since 2003. It is a unique newspaper, written by and for street children. The story of how it came to be published is very interesting an...

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Sustainable Development

For Google's Cloud, 18 Minutes Of Downtime Is An Eternity

On Monday night, Google's Compute Engine went dark for 18 minutes. The Engine itself was whirring away just fine, but incoming internet traffic to its servers was misrouted...

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Environment

The World's Coral Reefs Are Undergoing A Massive Die-Off

For the picturesque coral colonies of the Earth's tropical oceans, it's as if the very water has betrayed them.The brilliant colors of the Great Barrier Reef and other swat...

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Festivals

Fast Forward Film Festival Shows Environmental Concerns

Kristen Smith, 17, of Brighton has done just that. The teen's short film, titled Kristen the Science Girl: Water, is environmentally focusedand created primarily with an iP...

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