youmightfindyourself: A six-year-old HIV carrier, has been living alone since his parents died of AIDS. The boy, known as Ah Long, does his own washing, cooking, studying and raises chickens. He lives in his parents’ house at the foothill village of Malu Mountain in Liuzhou in Guangxi Province, China. Ah Long has an 84-year-old grandmother, who visits him quite frequently and cooks for him despite not living with him. A local primary school was forced […]
OH: “Isn’t Bjork, like, invincible?” “Yeah, I heard she drinks swan’s blood.”
India Microcredit Sector Faces Collapse From Defaults – http://nyti.ms/9FT7cj Ruh Roh. Very sad, but also: now what? I have been getting all hyped up about a future where microcredit is the bedrock of financial access to the extreme poor. As I’ve learned more and more about the global financial system, I have increasingly lost faith in the ability of the big economy and big bank system in leading to fight inequality. Joseph Stiglitz + Muhammad […]
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The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. -EMH
fresh-ness.
aconversationoncool: Blue socks – enough said.
“Sometimes, when we’re lying together, I look at her and I feel dizzy with the realization that here is another distinct person from me, who has memories, origins, thoughts, feelings that are different from my own. That tension between familiarity and mystery meshes something strong between us. Even if one builds a life together based on trust, attentiveness and mutual support, I think that it’s important that a partner continues to surprise.” —Barack Obama Hate […]
RT @WorldBank: China, Brazil, & Kenya’s ‘triple win’ investments: climate resilient, low carbon-emitting agricultural sector: http://cot …
I enthusiastically cosign every one of these.
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