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Published on Friday, 20 January 2012 00:00 | | 
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In 1975 José Antonio Abreu set up a music class for street kids in a Caracas car park. The first day there were 11 children. The next day there were 25. The day after that, 75 kids showed up.
One teenager, who had been arrested nine times for armed robbery, says he was astonished to be given a clarinet. ‘I thought they were joking. Who’d trust a kid like me not to steal something like that?’
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