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Sustainable Development

In Kenya, Phones Replace Bank Tellers

Pauline Kimari is a pharmacist in Ndaragwa, Kenya, a small town several hours’ drive north of Nairobi. She moved there from rural Muranga, several hours away, to open...

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Health

16 Million Reasons To Be Optimistic About Polio

People often ask me how I know the world is getting better. I usually point to numbers like this one: Because of efforts to eradicate polio by groups like Rotary Internatio...

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Environment

Bat Attacks On Humans Increasing Due To Urbanisation and Deforestation

'Diseases in bats have been around for a long time and historically have not been a problem. Now, there is cause for concern,' expert says Bats have been attacking humans i...

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Festivals

Pixar Shares 'Coco' Secrets At Annecy Animation Festival

An audience of animation students and assorted cartoon enthusiasts went cuckoo for “Coco,” as representatives of Pixar — co-director Adrian Molina and pro...

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Thought Factory

So Long, Farewell, It’s Hard To Say Goodbye!

The last time I spoke to Piroj was two days before Nina Goel, her friend called me from Piroj’s mobile phone to inform me of her hospitalization and to tell me that P...

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Trending

Born A Cremator: An Indian Boys Fight For An Education

The night Yogi Choudhury's father died, the teenager was asleep in his boarding school. His older brother had travelled some three hours along a dirt track to find the scho...

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Festivals

Duluth Superior Film Festival Highlights The Region, Women & Native Americans

Matthew Dressel found award-winning inspiration while traveling the backroads of Michigan as a teenager. What if a deer hunter's bullet went off its mark and hit a car, he ...

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Gender

Behind The Suicide Of An IIT Scholar In Delhi, A Struggle Between New Ambitions And Old Restraints

Her Facebook photos reveal a young woman who liked to travel, dress up, pose and smile. You see her patting her hair and sticking a hip out like the Marilyn Monroe wax stat...

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Alternative Entertainment

When Krishna Danced To The Beatles In Vegas

It has been called a rock ‘n roll poem, with over 50 dancers and acrobats on stage, and three Grammy Awards so far. It is the Cirque du Soleil show of The Beatles LOV...

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Hollywood

Kate del Castillo Hits Miami TV In Anti-Seaquarium Ad

Just in time for the summer tourist season, Kate del Castillo is making a splash on Miami television with a PETA ad in which she calls on travelers to stay away from the Mi...

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