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Sick of being portrayed as helpless victims, indigenous peoples are now picking up the camera themselves. And the results, as seen in the Native Spirit film festival, are remarkableCinema's relationship with indigenous tribal (Read More)
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Hammer of the Gods, Stephen Davis's 1985 biography of Led Zeppelin, was dismissed by the band as a seedy fiction, but if this account by band confidant Mick Wall portrays anything more clean-living, it's only by a tiny amount (Read More)
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A third chemical – cocaethylene – builds up in the liver over a number of years among those who mix the two drugs. And this is now having major health consequences"I first took coke when I was 18 and at university. I remember (Read More)
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Programmes 'ignore consequences of dangerous behaviour'The violence portrayed in children's programmes such as Scooby-Doo and Batman should be more realistic, an international expert on child safety will tell the Royal Societ (Read More)
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Twenty years after I watched the Berlin Wall fall, I worry that the hope it inspired is being slowly crushedWhen the European Court of Human Rights announces a ban on crucifixes in Italian schools, you can either celebrate th (Read More)
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For two decades Darcey Bussell was Britain's greatest ballerina. So what's it going to be like for the Strictly Come Dancing contestants when she starts judging on the show next month? Here, she talks about her new life in S (Read More)
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Fifteen years after the genocide that killed a million people, Rwanda's warring tribes have reached a truce. But will it hold? Here, the world's leading writer on Rwanda meets the killers, the survivors, and the man bringing (Read More)
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The popular press can harrumph all they like, but if you can't misbehave when you're a student, when can you?Oh, to be a student again, pissed on freedom and curdled shots. This week, the Sun reports, "a plague of drunken you (Read More)
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The outrage after undergraduate Philip Laing urinated on a war memorial has led many student unions to bar Carnage, the firm that runs the drinking eventsParticipating in at least a modicum of alcohol-induced mayhem is an int (Read More)
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Agence France PresseBy Daniel SilvaFriday, November 6, 2009 MADRID (AFP) - The new “smart meters” utilities are installing in homes around the world to reduce energy use raise fresh privacy issues because of the wealth of inf (Read More)
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Good Champions League results on the road are being overshadowed by troubleThis season's vicissitudes suggest Sod's Law may have been framed specifically to victimise Walter Smith. How else to explain the Rangers manager prod (Read More)
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I favorited a YouTube video: We believe that the easiest way to change people's behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory. Do you have an idea that uses fun to change behaviour? Enter now f (Read More)
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It was not his three-match Champions League ban, the prospect of being sold by Chelsea last summer or the disapproval of some fans that convinced Didier Drogba to change his ways, but being reprimanded by his young son. (Read More)
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• Didier Drogba says eight-year-old's words made him rethink• 'My son was watching with his friends and I was embarrassed'Didier Drogba says he has reformed his conduct after his eight-year-old son criticised him for his outb (Read More)
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My sister's ex partner is neglectful, domineering and abusive towards his children. What can I do?My niece and nephew had a very unhappy start in life – they were taken away from my sister when they were five and two respecti (Read More)
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Michael Morpurgo's tale of a wild child ranks among his bestChildren's fiction often finds ingenious ways of getting rid of adults, forcing its protagonists to depend on their own resources and initiative. Michael Morpurgo's (Read More)
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Children's books deserve this grown-up study. By AS ByattThis is a risky and brilliant title. The Enchanted Hunters is the hotel where the predatory monster Humbert Humbert has his way with the nymphet Lolita. Maria Tatar is (Read More)
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First, to declare an interest: Hugo Young was a political columnist for this paper, and there is a foreword by Alan Rusbridger, the editor. But I'd choose this book even if Young wrote for the Daily Mail and the foreword were (Read More)
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With National Ethical Investment Week about to start, Sarah Pennells guides newcomers through the three main types of fund and suggests where to go to find out moreYou recycle, switch off lights and have a water butt. But is (Read More)