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Bill Gates Talks To Author Of “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” Katherine Boo

Bill Gates: How did you pick the particular slum and the people that you profiled in the book?

Katherine Boo: Although I’d been spending time in slums all ove...

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Former Viacom Exec Lead USC Initative

Todd Cunningham has been named Director of the Media Impact Project, an interdisciplinary team of skilled researchers and data specialists at the Norman Lear Center of the ...

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UCLA Launches Global Media Center For Social Impact

The Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA has established an innovative new center to
increase awareness of important health issues and improve the well-being of pe...

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Gravity Review

The overview effect is described as the phenomenon astronauts experience when looking back at the earth from space. It is described to inspire an enormous sense of awe at t...

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By 2047, coldest years will be warmer than hottest in past

Dr. Camilo Mora and his students at university of Hawaii suggest that the rise in emission of greenhouse gases will lead to hottest ever summers in the tropics by 2047. Rea...

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Big B celebrated birthday with Alzheimer’s patient

100 year old woman suffering from Alzheimers celebrates Amitabh Bachchan’s 71st birthday. http://bit.ly/1gsM49Y Read More

The Lunchbox

The film Lunchbox deals with the lives of lonely people living in the crowded metropolis of Mumbai. An error made by the meticulous tiffin deliver...

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John Day Review

There has emerged a relatively new breed of cinema lately, the corruption thriller. Veering away from the highly dramatized and sensationalized, which is the bread and butt...

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Palestine: Halt Execution of Gaza Child Offender

Hani Abu Aliyan, imprisoned in Gaza’s central prison, faces execution.

Imposing the death penalty for a crime committed by a child makes the executions un...

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Is America Disinventing Human Rights? By Professor Alemayehu G Mariam

In his 1981 farewell speech, President Jimmy Carter said, “America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented...

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