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Human Rights

December 15, 2008
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You only have one body: Love It

December 1, 2008

The  timeless adage, be careful of who you work for, should include a warning about the kind of computer workstation you sit at daily. In addition, since nearly everyone will experience some kind of back, neck, or hand pain at some point in his or her life, even the best boss in the world won’t [...]

Dads spend just a minute a day with their kids.

November 3, 2008
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According to recent research in Australia fathers are managing to spend very little time with their children on weekdays. Averaging just six minutes alone with their children from Monday to Friday. Social researcher Lyn Craig reveals in a new paper, Father Care, Father Share in International Perspective,  that fathers spend more time with their kids at weekends but, mostly [...]

Is this the end of reading?

November 3, 2008
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According to the National Endowment for the Arts’s survey of reading habits, in 1982, 56.9 per cent of Americans had read a literary book in the previous year. This fell to 54% in 1992, and 46.7 percent in 2002. When television was introduced in the Netherlands, reading time plummeted from 5 hours per week to [...]

From gravel to glorious

November 3, 2008

There used to be an ugly patch of gravel behind the Mokame home in Zimbabwe. It’s now a thriving, green and leafy vegetable garden. It’s a mini miracle in a country that is suffering from an economic, political, and agricultural disaster. In India, a farmer named Govindraj says his wife has been able to buy [...]