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Aditi Roy 18 October 2013
MelJol empowers underprivileged children by teaching them the value of savings and money MelJol, a Mumbai based NGO, was started in 1991 by Jeroo Billimoria, as a field action project of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) to educate children about their rights. Ms Billimoria,...

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A handy book to make your life less cluttered and distracting In the world of publishing, self-help is a lucrative genre. After all, everyone wants to be ‘successful’ in life. With the proliferation of social media, comparisons between success and failure are almost inevitable, between...

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Charles Ornstein  and   Tracy Weber 18 October 2013
Researchers find that a higher proportion of seniors are prescribed antidepressants, dementia drugs and other medications in some parts of the country than others. Elderly Americans are prescribed medications in inexplicably different ways depending on where they live, according to a new...

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The fascinating story of central bankers Central bankers are probably the most powerful actors in any economy today, especially since the global economy is deeply interconnected. Their decisions on money supply and interest rates affect everybody. Alan Greenspan’s handling of the economy...

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Affluent Indians have aped the lifestyle of the West by taking to the junk food culture. They suffer from mall-nutrition Shrinking waistlines are a good indicator of our generalised calorie-deficient sub-nutrition (poverty-mediated starvation, in plain English). There are over 47 million...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 October 2013
Obama said the US will start reopening the government right away Less than four hours before the midnight deadline, the United States’ Senate voted 81-18 the legislation to end a 16-day government shutdown and avert a catastrophic debt default.   The Bill will fund the US...

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Charles Ornstein (ProPublica) 17 October 2013
Federal officials have pointed to overwhelming demand to explain the site's problems. But web developers, other experts and journalists have uncovered more fundamental issues with the design and functioning of the site For the past two weeks, healthcare.gov, the federal government’s new...

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Medical developments from around the world Use of Stents Linked to Injuries and Fatalities According to a Bloomberg News article titled “Deaths Linked to Cardiac Stents Rise as Overuse Seen”, authored by Peter Waldman et al, reported on ‘US medicine’s binge on cardiac stents’. In some...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 October 2013
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) can help everyone improve communication as well as own performance in any activity. Shekhar Naware, well known theatre personality explained this with a delightful presentation Moneylife Foundation’s seminar on NLP by well-known Marathi actor Shekhar...

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Theodoric Meyer (ProPublica) 16 October 2013
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has failed to set up a body that would make recommendations on how to deal with rising seas The US Congress did something unusual last year. It passed a bill that acknowledged that sea levels are rising — i.e., that climate change is happening.

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 October 2013
While publishing a list of these defaulters, the CCI said these penalties, totalling Rs2.17 crore, are pending for up to over two years Fair trade regulator Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Tuesday said it will initiate recovery proceedings against actor Aamir Khan, two film...

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Cora Currier (ProPublica) 15 October 2013
Critics, including some who have worked on enforcing arms export laws, say the changes could undermine efforts to prevent arms smuggling to Iran and others The United States is loosening controls over military exports, in a shift that former U.S. officials and human rights advocates say...

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Science is about exploration and persistent questioning. Science can progress only if we try and understand nature, while more and more scientists are realising the futility of reductionist science Progress is looking at the same thing from different angles. If we look at something from...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 October 2013
Obama and Republican leaders failed to reach any specific decision on how to end the partial government shutdown US President Barack Obama and Republican leaders reached no specific decision on how to end the partial government shutdown after a meeting at the White House following a move...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 October 2013
Tendulkar has informed the BCCI about his decision to quit Test cricket after a glorious career spanning 24 years Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, who has been playing cricket for India since past 24 years on Thursday announced his decision to retire from Test cricket after playing his landmark...

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Marian Wang (ProPublica) 10 October 2013
Many are worried that as public universities gain freedom, they will end up sidelining broader goals such as access and affordability The chancellor of Oregon’s higher-education system currently oversees all seven of the state’s public colleges and universities. But as of July next year,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 October 2013
Ali Zeidan was taken to an unknown destination for unknown reasons by a group of men believed to be former rebels An armed group on Thursday kidnapped Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan at dawn  and took him to an unknown location.   In a brief statement on its website, the Libyan...

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Kim Barker (ProPublica) 09 October 2013
US tax regulators recognize two related dark money groups, even though they appear to have made misleading statements on their applications for tax-exempt status The IRS has granted nonprofit status to America Is Not Stupid – a so-called dark money group best known for a 2012 election ad...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 October 2013
According to a law signed by Obama, funds of NASA cannot be used to collaborate with China or to host Chinese visitors at US space agency facilities Some prominent American astronomers are boycotting a meeting called by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) next month...

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Raymond Bonner (Special to ProPublica) 08 October 2013
When federal agents investigated a story Raymond Bonner wrote for The New York Times, they violated Department of Justice rules and his privacy in many of the ways Edward Snowden has suggested could happen Over the past several months, the Obama Administration has defended the...

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