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Published on Friday, 22 August 2008 19:00 | | 
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Jill Brindley noticed an improvement in her physical and psychological well-being when she took part in Cancer Research UK’s race for life.
Two weeks before Christmas I was made redundant. My boyfriend and I had split up a month before, so getting laid off really was the icing on the cake. Come New Year I was a broke and lonely mess. My confidence had plummeted and I couldn’t drag myself out of bed in the morning to look for another job.
Published on Monday, 01 September 2008 19:00 | | |
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By observing events at the scale of single
atoms, Cornell researchers have found evidence that
the mechanism in high-temperature superconductors may
be much more like that in low-temperature superconductors
than was previously thought.
"This came as a huge shock," said J.C. Séamus
Davis, Cornell professor of physics, who with colleagues
reports the findings in the Aug. 3 issue of the journal
Nature.
Published on Thursday, 28 August 2008 19:00 | |
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It was a few months after the planes crashed into the Twin Towers that Suleiman Bakhit, a young Jordanian studying in Minneapolis, was set upon by four white youths who cut him up with broken glass.
This terrifying experience left him very angry. It also motivated him to start outreach work teaching American schoolchildren that Arabs are people and not monsters.
Published on Monday, 25 August 2008 13:25 | | |
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Anorexia Athletica is another side of the anorectic lexicon and one that often goes unnoticed due partly to its co-existence alongside healthy sports. But this deception causes a high number of young female athletes to develop this brutal condition in a bid to maximise performance and win medals.
Peta Bee interviews athlete Allie Outram, who shares her inspiring story of anorexia and subsequent recovery.
Published on Tuesday, 26 August 2008 19:00 | | |
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According to Kai Brand-Jacobsen, the roots of terrorism can be traced back to the rise of colonialism in the 16th and 17th centuries. Imperialism led to race ideology – the idea that certain people are superior to others based on history, skin colour, gender or even a political system. And this 'Chosen People Complex' continues to thrive today
Kai Brand-Jacobsen is a practising peaceworker, and founder and Director of the Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR). This video courtesy of Big Picture TV.
Published on Sunday, 24 August 2008 19:00 | |
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Published on Friday, 22 August 2008 09:54 | | |
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The way to avoid environmental apocalypse is not to end poverty but to end wealth writes Julia Stephenson
I am very taken by the current edition of The Idler, titled “How To Save The World Without Really Trying” which argues that idleness is eco-friendly and that to save the planet we need to do a lot less.