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Published on Sunday, 30 March 2008 19:00 | 
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The Gum-painting Visionary
It is calculated that, at any one time, there are approximately 300,000 squashed blobs of chewing gum stuck to the pavements of London’s shopping hotspot, Oxford Street. The Borough of Westminster has been doing some counting, too. It reckons there are roughly twenty pieces to every square metre of pavement. When one thinks of what the statistics must be for the whole city – well, the mind boggles!
Published on Thursday, 20 March 2008 19:00 | |
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The lives of thousands of women living in poverty have been transformed by the vision of Chetna Gala Sinha.
By Geraldine Royds
Kamal Jaisinh Gore, a vegetable and milk vendor, is a widow with two children. With a small loan, she was able to buy a buffalo. No longer at the mercy of moneylenders, she is now able to save a few rupees a day.
Published on Sunday, 23 March 2008 19:00 | |
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Published on Monday, 25 February 2008 09:45 | | |
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A
single week's issue of a leading military journal reveals a lot about the strategic predicament and plans of the US.
Paul Rogers is professor of peace studies at Bradford University and
author of Oxford Research Group's International Security Report 2007,Towards Alternative Security: Alternatives to the War on Terror.
Published on Thursday, 07 February 2008 04:18 | | |
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Johan Galtung is
widely regarded as the 'father' of peace studies. This is a talk he gave
to an informal meeting of the UN General Assembly Plenary in New York on 2 October
2007, the International Day of Nonviolence.
Published on Saturday, 22 March 2008 19:00 | | |
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Recent uprisings in
By Julia Stephenson
Tibet was the size of
Published on Saturday, 23 February 2008 06:13 | | |
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