Food
In India — the World's Largest School Lunch Program
The Mid-Day Meal Scheme feeds 120 million Indian schoolchildren daily. Akshaya Patra, its largest NGO partner, drew praise from Obama on his 2010 India visit.
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Relationships
'I Don't Want to Go to That Party!' Shouts the Husband — What Should the Wife Do?
One wants to go to the party, the other refuses. How couples handle the Saturday-night standoff says a lot about the marriage itself.
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Featured Stories
British Students to Choose University of Pune as Their Number 1 Choice
As British students protest the proposed tripling of tuition fees, Indian universities — Pune among them — are pitching themselves as the affordable
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Relationships
What Self-Respecting Bride Wants Another Diva Present on Her Wedding Day?
The one rule of wedding guest attire: complement, don't compete. Why the diva guest is the bride's worst nightmare — and how not to be one.
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Business News
The Rise of Indian-American CEOs
Indra Nooyi, Vikram Pandit, Sanjay Jha, Shantanu Narayen — by 2010 Indian-Americans led some of America's biggest companies.
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Relationships
Parenting Is an Addiction — Surprise?
A four-year-old's unexpected kiss after the worst day at work — and why parents keep coming back for more of the hardest job they will ever love.
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World
Pakistan Acting like Neglected Girlfriend
Obama spent three days in India and skipped Pakistan. Islamabad's aggrieved reaction was equal parts theatre and genuine insecurity.
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Tech
Google Makes Another Attempt at Social Networking — Hotpot
Google's Hotpot brought friends' recommendations to local business ratings in November 2010. Another genuinely good Google social product that couldn't beat
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Featured Stories
Does Society Encourage Women to Study Maths and Sciences?
Girls match boys in early math performance, then the STEM gap opens. The evidence says it is a social and structural phenomenon — not biology.
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Health & Spirituality
Children Down with Cold: What Works?
Your kid has a cold. Which remedies actually work? Honey, saline drops, fluids and rest — yes. OTC cold medicines for little kids — no.
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Featured Stories
Women More Sensitive to Cocaine
Given a choice between cocaine and food, female rats choose the drug while males go for food. Estrogen, the UCSB researchers believe, is the difference.
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Featured Stories
Ratan Tata- Did Not Want to Bribe His Way into Airlines Sector
In November 2010 Ratan Tata revealed a fellow industrialist had told him to pay a Rs 15 crore bribe for the Tata-SIA airline plan.
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World
Pamela Anderson Urges Manmohan Singh to Reject All Leather Products
In India for Bigg Boss 4, Pamela Anderson wrote to PM Manmohan Singh calling on Indians to reject all leather products and end animal suffering.
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Featured Stories
Only Child Happier than Children with Siblings
The lonely, spoiled only child is a myth. Decades of research say only children are as happy and socially skilled as — sometimes slightly happier than —
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Featured Stories
A Japanese House the Size of a 1-Car Parking Space
A fully functional home in Tokyo, on a footprint of 8 square meters. What Japanese small-house design teaches about possessions and wellbeing.
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Business News
Bye Bye Gmail? Facebook Introduces Its Messaging System
Project Titan revealed: Facebook Messages — unified inbox, no subject lines, @facebook.com addresses. Zuckerberg said it was 'not an email killer.'
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Featured Stories
Why Do Scientists Dance?
The Dance Your PhD competition asks researchers to explain their dissertations through interpretive dance — and it works better than it sounds.
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Business News
What It Feels Like to Be Bought by a Chinese Firm
Chinese acquisitions of Western firms make geopolitical headlines — but inside the acquired company, the experience is cultural and human before anything else.
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Food
Indian Spiced Thanksgiving
Yogurt-marinated turkey, spiced gravy, cashew-and-raisin stuffing. Where Indian spicing genuinely improves Thanksgiving — and where it doesn't.
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Business News
First Greece, Now Ireland, Next Spain and Portugal — the Bailout Story Continues
Greece, then Ireland, then Portugal, then Spain. Each bailout was promised to be the last firewall — and each failed, because the problem was structural.
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