By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 15 June 2007 Across Africa, poverty and a tradition of putting children in the care of the extended family have led many parents to send their young children, especially daughters, to cities. There they often end up working in

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Bressanone--Matthew Lien Here I stand in Bressanone with the stars up in the sky Are they shining over Brenner and upon the other side You would be a sweet surrender Imust go the other way And my train will carry me onward though my heart would turel

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Radio Essays Explore Technological Creativity There are mechanisms in nature as well as in human endeavors like engineering and art. Since 1988, the creative manipulation of these mechanisms has been explored in short radio essays about the history o

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Because from trillions of miles away, these small planets get lost in the blinding glare of their stars brightness. The sad truth of the matter is that earth-like planets are near cosmic specks of dust. And therefore detecting them is really quite ha

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Are we alone ?And it ties into all the big questions: how do we get here ? where are we going ?Are we a part of a bigger picture? But for the longest time ,the question was taboo to science . Before the Mid-1990s ,it was considered somewhat embarassi

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Todd: OK, Shane, why don't you talk a little about why you came to Japan? Shane: Well, I suppose the reason why I came to Japan is because, I suppose it's a personal thing. There's many different people in Dublin, different types of people. I do not

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