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Progress on reducing maternal mortality has stagnated, and in the case of Kerala, reversed. What do the data tell us?

We spend a lot of time identifying kids with talent and training them on technique,” says writer Carey Wallace. “But there’s ...

WHEN Prince Edward came to Shildon and Darlington to attend the bicentennial celebrations of the Stockton & Darlington Railway last weekend, ...

75. Any individual whatever is an individual by an individual difference of its own called a thishereness. 446. The wayfarer’s theology – as the wayfarer’s – must be called unqualifiedly practical.

Anderson has been explicit about the formative charge of growing up there: a place whose absence of certain cultural ...

This phrase has its own hand motion, of course, in which the speaker pretends to take a shot. As Mr. Lindsay explains, any objection could be used to complete this motion, not exclusively a beverage.

Public concern about the insidious spread of illicit drugs has intensified following the recent arrest of several members of ...

Recounts a meeting with Rohana Wijeweera after his release from prison in 1977 Well-known Australian monk, Bhante S. Dhammika ...

From the earliest year of school, children begin learning how to express ideas in different ways. Lines across a page, a ...

Answering the same question over and over and over again can get grating. But there are important developmental reasons behind why young children are so into asking "why." ...

A TikTok mom turns her kids’ catchphrases into mini “book reports,” teaching them media literacy and critical thinking ...