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Archive for September, 2009

Hungry for Knowledge

Schools in South Africa are bursting with hopeful students, but the education system often fails those who most need it to escape poverty. Despite last year’s violent episode, students seem to feel genuine affection for their school and speak of their hunger for knowledge and their faith in education to bring a better life. Sometimes [...]

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Perfect to a fault

It was once natural to be shy or have a big nose; now these simple human traits are seen as flaws that need fixing. John Elder looks at the pursuit of perfection and the narrowing of what it means to be normal… from The Age WHEN Austin Powers first travelled into the future, he was [...]

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This is an embarrassment and an insult to human intelligence. It is now even more evident that Obama is actually the only hope for such a mindless mob. Watch this footage (click here). You’ll laugh. Then cry.

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Image provided by NASA, released Sept. 9, 2009, taken by the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope! (click here for images from The Age)

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