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November 11, 2013

Energy Crunch for Britain's Poor

Avagay Mowatt knows that there will be times this winter, just as there were last year, when she will have to choose between giving her children a hot meal and bath and keeping their home warm.

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April 3, 2012

Business Skills and Buddhist Mindfulness

Business schools are beginning to embrace a practice that has grown popular in the corporate world—teaching and studying mindfulness, the originally Buddhist approach to increasing awareness of oneself and one's surroundings.

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May 31, 2013

Charting the Impact of Everyday Sexism Across the World

When Laura Bates started a Twitter account asking women to share stories of sexist treatment, she expected a handful of replies, and hoped they would yield an article for Web or print consumption.

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March 6, 2012

Women Bearing the Brunt of Austerity in Britain

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND — Sometimes Jennifer Bradshaw dreams of a job in finance, and last year she thought about going back to school to become a nurse. She would do anything, she said, that would give her the chance to get ahead — and to meet the bills that seem to weigh more heavily on her family every month.

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July 21, 2012

We're All Climate-Change Idiots

Climate change is staring us in the face. The science is clear, and the need to reduce planet-warming emissions has grown urgent. So why, collectively, are we doing so little about it?

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March 31, 2010

Not So Pretty in Pink: Are Girls' Toys Too Girly?

Twin sisters Abi and Emma Moore noticed a few years ago how different their south London houses looked as Abi's started filling up with her sons' toy dinosaurs and trains and Emma's turned pink and girly with her daughters' playthings.

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