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It's not a week after Songkran and I'm in a studio to record a radio show -- five 30-minute shows in quick succession, pretending we are live, when really we are not. I know never trust the media, right? The incredulous voice belongs to my co-host, Puk, who has just arrived. She walks towards me, eyes wide open. |
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For the past few months, archaeologists have been testing a full head of hair found in a coffin. Is it the hair of a saint? In October 1839, the work of some gravediggers came to an abrupt halt when their tools hit something hard. It was a lead coffin. Inside they found some hair. Human hair. |
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On the first Earth Day, in 1970, I was an 11-year-old kid living in Princeton, New Jersey. I spent the day with my friends gleefully crushing thousands of empty soda cansour first awakening to the revolutionary concept of recycling. Many of us went home empowered to teach our parents a thing or two about their wasteful and polluting ways. |
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JUST when we, on the Copperbelt, thought we had been re-connected to Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) Radio 4 after a long time, the channel is now in an on/off situation. For a long time, one could not catch Radio 4 in Ndola until early this year when listeners bumped into it, sadly, the channel is not reliable. |
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For a city as progressive, proactive and cutting-edge as New York, a public bike-share program was a long time coming. After all, pedallers in Amsterdam have been sharing bikes since 1965 and in nearby Washington DC, a successful scheme has been operating for more than five years. |
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From a working-class home, I was propelled into university and then into London literary society, where I first encountered, at least in its inchoate stages, a proud and openly gay community. My first book, released in 1984, came about with the help of a highly respected and extremely gay theatre.... |
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No one suffered more from Bishop's smears than the Australian Tax Commissioner Trevor Boucher, who, in a situation not unlike that of today, sought to audit some of Australia's largest companies and examine, in particular, their off-shore schemes. Courageously, his tax officers also audited.... |
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EPA OSSERVATORE ROMANO HANDOUT Vatican City State (Holy See)/VATICAN CITY 23/4/2016 15:40 epa05273387 This picture provided by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano shows Pope Francis hearing confessions of young faithfuls during the Jubilee for Teens in Saint Peter's Square, Vatican, 23 April 2016. |
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Eight family members were shot “execution-style” in four different homes in southern Ohio, some while they were still sleeping in their beds, authorities said, warning that their killer is probably still on the loose. When deputies arrived at the various crime scenes, they found two babies and one toddler left alive, officials said. |
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Traversing two civilisations, South Africa’s Metro FM DJ and businessman Thabo Molefe (TBO Touch) seems to have touched the fabled Midas for good. A special kind of DJ that reminds you of Soul Train driver Don Cornelius whose catch phrase (“… and you can bet your last money, it’s all gonna be a.... |
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