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SUPERBUGS: NEWS WAYS TO DEFEAT BACTERIA -
Yolanda Devere
Scientists have discovered
new bacteria which resist the most powerful antibiotics.
Doctors fear that unless scientists find new ways to
fight...
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HUMAN TRAFFIC - Orly Borges Personal
Collection
For the
world’s refugees and asylum seekers, it is a message of hope. For criminals that
agree to take them to a new country, it’s big business...
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BRINGING UP BABY - Michael Slezak
A child’s brain
grows and changes rapidly from birth to age three. Most babies learn to
walk, talk and play during this short period of time...
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YOUR KIDS AND DRUGS - Martha Lucia
Guevara
The teenage years can be difficult for youngsters and their
parents. Puberty is the time that the body changes, making boys
into men and girls into...
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SLEEPY TEENAGERS - Voice
of America
Last week, we talked about the conflict between sleepy teenagers and
early morning classes. Many people commented on our website and Facebook.
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ALIVE AND FREE - Voice
of America
More than
half of young black men in the United States do not finish high school.
Many grow up without fathers and in neighborhoods with gangs...
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WORLD POVERTY - Voice
of America
The
World Bank has
published a report about poor people which represents
a ten-year study of the causes and
effects of
poverty around the world...
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SCHOOL DESERTION IN THE U.S. - Voice
of America
Many young people in the United States never finish high school. Recent studies of dropout rates have had conflicting results...
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TARTAN: THE CLOTH OF THE SCOTTISH CLANS -
Cameron Paul
From the very earliest times the patterned dress of warlike
Scottish highlanders struck fear into their neighbours, the
Ancient Britons...
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MODERN URBAN MYTHS -
Wilfredo Fernandes
Though the vast majority of
urban tales are pure invention, a handful do turn out to be based
on real incidents.
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SACRED PLACES -
Caitlin Cahill
Our
churches,
mosques,
synagogues, temples
and religious meeting
houses
are important gathering places
because they
preserve culture
and spiritual...
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THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT -
Yolanda Devere
The
mapping of the genes
in the human body caused great excitement,
but although it
will be a
major step forward it also brings
difficult moral problems...
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THE SECRETS OF TEA DRINKING - Kesta Allen
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British obsession, tea
drinking started in England
as late as the 17th century
and the
tradition of the afternoon tea dates back to the early 1800s...
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THE SHERPAS -
Robert Moore
The Sherpa tribe of Nepal live at a higher altitude than any other people in the world.
Their home is in the Everest region of the Himalaya mountains...
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