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Tom Gash Book Review: Criminal – The Truth About Why People Do Bad Things

Tom Gash Book Review: Criminal - The Truth About Why People Do Bad Things

Publisher: Allen Lane/Penguin Pages: 349 Price: Rs. 899 ‘Crime doesn’t pay’ is something almost everyone is taught around the world, but proves to be less than true (at least in the short run, which is what the great masses of people are concerned with). But is this the only wrong belief about crime and criminals we have, or are our …

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China Weird News: Controversial Yulin Dog Meat Festival

China Weird News: Controversial Yulin Dog Meat Festival

Today marks the end of one of China’s most controversial practices. Consider that statement for a moment. June 30 is the end of the 10-day Yulin Dog Meat Festival. Despite staunch international criticism, the Chinese government allows the bizarre and cruel event to occur. With so much information distributed about the event, it can be difficult to get at the underlying issues. …

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Independence day poem in English for kids: America – The Beautiful

America - The Beautiful

O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain America! America! God shed your grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea. O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities glean Undimmed by human tears America! America! God shed your …

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India Science News: Manipal University student designed waterless – odourless toilet for Railways

India Science News: Manipal University student designed waterless - odourless toilet for Railways

Hopefully train journeys will be more pleasant with stinking toilets becoming a thing of the past. Vinod Anthony Thomas, a student of Manipal University, has won the second prize for designing a waterless and odourless toilet for the Indian Railways. In keeping with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Clean India initiative, the railways held a public competition for waterless and odourless …

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USA Guinness World Records: Longest dog lead

USA Guinness World Records: Longest dog lead

Detroit, Michigan, USA – May 29, 2016 – Shinola, the Detroit-based watch company that also makes dog leashes, donated a super-long, red-orange lead to the The Humane Society; the leash measured 2,2620-foot, 8-inch, thus setting the new world record for the Longest dog lead. Photo: Link, a 2-year-old Icelandic sheepdog, dons a world-record-breaking, 2,2621-foot leash at Michigan Humane Society in …

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Dubai Guinness World Records: Largest painted wooden block mosaic

Dubai Guinness World Records: Largest painted wooden block mosaic

Dubai, UAE – May 17, 2016 – Employees from Majid Al Futtaim – the shopping mall, retail and leisure giant across the Middle East and North Africa – painted 930 wooden blocks in four hours – measuring 45.5 m2 (489.75 ft2), thus setting the new world record for the the largest painted wooden block mosaic. Photo: Employees from Majid Al …

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Liberalism – A Very Short Introduction – Michael Freeden Book Review

Liberalism - A Very Short Introduction - Michael Freeden Book Review

Publisher: Oxford University Press Pages: 160 Price: Rs. 225 No other political or social belief has ever been so proudly owned to or so savagely disparaged by both conservatives and radicals, aspired to or misappropriated as much as liberalism. But what is it, what are its principles, is it synonymous with democracy, can it and nationalism co-exist, and how is …

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