Q&A: Science is still biased towards staple crops
By Anita Makri 12/11/18 This year’s world food security report found world hunger rising for the third year in a row. The report cited climate change and conflict as the …
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Personal Diary of a remorseful Young Afghan
By Hemant K. Batra | Freelance Writer Always in a pair of denim clad jeans, Abdul Malik an Afghani national was a fair complexioned and light brown eyed handsome young …
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Is queer culture losing its radical roots?
Sky Gilbert, University of Guelph Has Pride been coopted? This year’s Pride parade spectators have been asked to wear black in honour of the victims of serial killers. A drag …
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Ten photos that changed how we see human rights
Jane Lydon, University of Western Australia This 1904 photograph showing the massacre of villagers by Dutch KNIL forces in the Indonesian village of Koetö Réh was used by the Dutch …
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From Ministry to Muckraking: The Biblical Basis for Investigative Reporting
by Marshall Allen Sept. 1, 3 p.m. EDT Some people say journalists are “godless.” But I spent five years in full-time Christian ministry, and my faith has made me a better …
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Courts Should Not Normally Disbelieve Rape Victims
Hemant K. Batra* Whether a rape convict can be released by a superior court or in other words by an appellate court `on the benefit of doubt’? Yes, it could …
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Louisiana Legislators Are Earning Big Money From Government Agencies – But Don’t Have to Disclose It All
One state senator earned $836,000 in legal fees representing a sheriff. The amount he disclosed: $13,328. “The notion that you could get public money and not report it in our …
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India Brings Fugitive Economic Offenders at par with Culpable Physical Offenders
By Hemant Batra | Policy & Business Lawyer | Kaden Boriss | Goeman Bind HTO The law is considered worthy if it evolves continually with the changing needs of the …
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Love Affair on a college campus is legitimate and not an act of indiscipline
By Hemant Batra | Policy & Business Lawyer | Kaden Boriss | Goeman Bind HTO In a recent judgment, the Kerala High Court (the highest court of one of the …
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Sex differences give wrong message, gender experts say
By Anita Makri Studies on how men and women differ in their brain biology get too much attention and are used wrongly to draw conclusions about aptitudes for science, according …
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