Holding Fast to Dreams in a Destitute World
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HBO's film of segregation in New York is at its best when it captures the fleeting joys of lost days.
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ÂHeroesÂ acts out the fantasy that supernatural forces can improve life. ÂRunawayÂ has a bleaker message: One little mistake can really mess it up.
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The west is stripping the developing world of its talent. The pressures of ageing populations and the need to be at the frontier of technological change has meant skilled labour is in short supply, so raiding
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Can 'unsettle a country's foundations'
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FOR decades, science fiction has promised a future in which lifeâs most mundane chores are carried out by robots. Sadly, the clunky, wobbling automatons that have been wheeled out as examples of this brave
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The world still moves in file with the US, but how badly it suffers in a coming slowdown depends on how long it lasts
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Sometimes the biggest rewards are hiding out of sight.
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11.29.04 - By Shane Rhinewald: We have all heard the story before. The destitute youth, lonely orphan, and impoverished outcast rise up against incredible odds to generate incredible wealth, wield unimaginable
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Scientists believe they have located the part of the brain where dreams are created.
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The documentary âShowBusinessâ makes one marvel at the stamina of artists who devote themselves to a world of many miseries and few rewards.
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A non-magical approach to building wealth.
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In the first of a two-part series on Wangari Maathai, Kenyaâs and Africaâs first woman Nobel Peace Prize winner, religious writer Joseph Ngala traces her humble beginnings and story of courage that is bound to offer inspiration to a world that still
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The dream of a free world becomes a  nightmare of modern day slavery in Ken Loach&#39;s latest film,  about migrant workers trying to eke out a living in Britain  where they are exploited and abused.
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Comment is free: Ban Ki-moon: The negative aspects of the era of mobility too often overshadow its potential power: to bring millions out of poverty.
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Comment is free: Polly Toynbee: The Babylonian excesses of the rich have to be tackled fast if we are to stop our society being wrenched apart.
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Grand lessons from grand larceny: An inspiring tale for today's youth.
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The nightmares won't stop. In one, fighters chase him with a gun. In another, he watches a person get mutilated. In a third, someone is hacking his neck with a machete. Yet, years after he left the life of a child soldier in Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah has found a reason for hope in his vivid nocturnal visions: He never dies.