By Orly Halpern ( Read more... )

New York Times, USA
Aug. 28, 2006
Michael Luo

The help-wanted ad had the whiff of a practical joke. “Documentary will pay you $5,000 to start your own religion,” it said. “No exp. necessary.”“I laughed out loud,” said Joshua Boden, 35, a bald-headed bassist in an indie rock band, the Angelic Bombs, who stumbled across the ad in the Village Voice ( Read more... )

By Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY ( Read more... )

The Toda tribe in India - one of the country's smallest communities - is gradually breaking up as its women marry men from outside. Is this the end for the Toda?The Toda are based in the Nilgiri Hills in southern India, and number around 1,700. While the tribe's men own property and work in agriculture, the women are renowned for their skills and ( Read more... )

We're all living longer. But will this just mean more pain and immobility? Or could science cure the illnesses of old age? Alok Jha reports

Wednesday March 8, 2006
The Guardian

Every minute that you spend reading this article, the average life expectancy in Britain will rise by 12 seconds. By the time you finish reading g2, your life expectancy ( Read more... )

Kate Ravilious, for National Geographic News, February 8, 2006

When human ancestors gave up a nomadic way of life to farm the land, they gathered in small communities where they could share some of their skills.These early societies, known as chiefdoms, sowed the seeds of modern human civilization ( Read more... )

Brian Handwerk, for National Geographic News, February 2, 2006

During times of widespread stress, a mother's body may be more likely to spontaneously terminate weak especially male fetuses, a recent study suggests.The finding adds new perspective to a long-standing debate in population science: Why do male birthrates decline during periods of ( Read more... )

Sunday January 22, 2006, The Observer

For a growing number of Afrikaners, the new South Africa is an alien world of squatters' camps and begging bowls. Photojournalist Simon Wood meets the people who lost most when Mandela won.It is a Thursday afternoon at a busy intersection in Johannesburg's Bryanston district. The traffic robot turns green and ( Read more... )

By Steve Israel, Times Herald-Record

The most profound open secret in our nation, one that will soon rip apart the fabric of our society, is this: Boys are in trouble. They are falling far behind girls in elementary school, in college, in life.An 11th-grade boy now reads and writes at the level of an eighth-grade girl. Just three decades ago, ( Read more... )

Jan. 17, 2006- The marriage of a low caste villager to an Australian woman in the Indian state of Bihar has brought prestige to his community, who have for decades been battling their "rat eater" status, relatives said Tuesday."It is a matter of great pride for us that one of our villagers wedded a foreigner even when society looks down upon us," ( Read more... )