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Published on Sunday, 15 January 2012 16:16 | | 
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Our annual January 'urge to purge' following the holiday excesses has thrown up some shocking statistics: that twenty years ago female models weighed 8% less than the average woman. Today she weighs 23% less.
Published on Saturday, 14 January 2012 11:53 | | |
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Gene Sharp is one of the world's greatest thinkers on non-violent revolution. A new award-winning documentary about his life and work, How To Start A Revolution, is now being shown around the world.
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Published on Saturday, 17 December 2011 09:00 | | |
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Actors can find adopting the mask of a character a welcome escape from their own lives. But for Pandora Clifford — actress and mother — there was no hiding place portraying the dignified and strong mother in a new stage version of The Railway Children. She tells how it forced her to challenge her own ideas of motherhood.
Published on Friday, 13 January 2012 20:40 | | |
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Children have reacted with incredulity after learning the Government has been doling out free money to their parents from the moment their offspring were born.
Published on Friday, 13 January 2012 18:11 | | |
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Will the world end in 2012? What does the Mayan prophecy actually mean? Or is it just the end of an era, of a certain way of life . . . and the beginning of another?
Published on Wednesday, 23 November 2011 11:55 | |
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Healthcare and peace worker Dame Claire Bertschinger talks about her life and SGI Buddhism
Published on Monday, 09 January 2012 08:59 | | |
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Paddy Ashdown, senior UK Parliamentarian and former High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, claims that we are living in a moment in history where power is changing in ways it never has before. In a spellbinding talk he outlines the three major global shifts he sees coming...