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Afghan youngsters use hip hop to speak for women′s rights | NRS-Import | DW.COM | 29.01.2016
Sonita Alizadeh was just like any other teenager in Afghanistan. Growing up in a country in which girls are up for sale as brides meant her fate would not be any different. But she had other plans. Her dream was becoming a hip hop artist, and she was not going to let it go.Iranian film director Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami found Sonita in an Iranian school after she and her family fled the Taliban. Seeing the girl’s story and her musical talents, Ghaemmaghami decided to film a documentary about her story, even stepping in when the girl’s family planned to sell her as a bride: she paid Sonita’s family 2,000 dollars (€1,833) for them not to force the youngster into marriage.These experiences resulted in the film “Sonita,” which has been screened at the Sundance film festival, receiving many plaudits. In the movie, Sonita speaks up against many practices limiting women’s rights in her country, including forced marriage and limited education for girls, and her weapon of choice is hip hop music.
Source: Afghan youngsters use hip hop to speak for women′s rights | NRS-Import | DW.COM | 29.01.2016
‘We heard that people were nice in Denmark’
In the second part of our series, The Local profiles a Syrian refugee family from Aarhus, who talk about their impressions of the country, the challenges they face adapting to its culture, and how they have been helped by everyday Danes.
French scientists discover critical stage in evolution of TB
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, France’s National Center for Scientific Research and the Université Toulouse III recently discovered a critical stage that is part of the evolution of tuberculosis (TB) bacillus in developing pathogenicity.
In 2014 alone, an estimated 9.6 million people contracted TB with 1.5 million people dying worldwide. These figures make TB the world’s second-highest cause of death due to one infective agent.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, an infective agent, causes TB, a chronic bacterial illness. The researchers found a glycolipid within the envelope of the bacterial cell and during evolution, this glycolipid could heighten the TB bacilli virulence among humans.
In contrast, when the glycolipids disappeared, TB became Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is much more aggressive and raising in pathogenicity.
These discoveries could help researchers develop a more thorough understanding of how TB operates and evolves. This could enable them to further advance science against the emerging TB bacilli, allowing them to help people around the world.
For researchers to develop better strategies for fighting TB, they must better understand how the disease’s mechanisms operate as it spreads. There are various evolutionary stages that cause genetic adaptations, allowing TB bacillus to settle in humans.
Understanding this will allow researchers to improve their methods of fighting TB on a worldwide scale.
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I’ve always had a soft spot for non-smiling portraits ever since Grant Wood’s American Gothic. Maybe…
I’ve always had a soft spot for non-smiling portraits ever since Grant Wood’s American Gothic. Maybe it’s because I have rbf (resting b!tchy face) which I inherited from pops. Maybe it’s just that hilarious, rebellious unwillingness to patronize the photographer, or the iron curtain that proves photography itself is an entirely ineffectual penetrant of the subject’s state of mind.
Let’s Ask Obama to Give This Speech Next
Barack Obama once confessed to politics’ original sin but has yet to atone for it. He now has an opportunity to do so.
Source: Let’s Ask Obama to Give This Speech Next
Well, Mr. President, it’s time. You have no more campaigns to wage. With a little less than 12 months left in the White House, you have the opportunity to atone for exploiting a system that you have deplored in words if not deeds. You can restart the engine of reform and even demonstrate that Citizens United can be tamed. Just take out your pen and sign an executive order compelling federal contractors to disclose their political spending. In one stroke you can put an end to a blatant practice of political bribery that would be one small step for you and one giant leap for democracy.
It’s an open-and-shut case. In fewer than five minutes, you could face the cameras and announce your decision:
My fellow Americans. I have today signed an executive order requiring any company with a federal contract to disclose how much they spend on politicians and lobbyists, and who is receiving their money.
There are several reasons for this.
First, federal contracting is big business. In 2013 alone, the United States government spent about $460 billion dollars on contracting, with $177 billion of that going to just 25 companies. Since the year 2000, the top 10 contractors have raked in $1.5 trillion in federal contracts.
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