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As i lay reading: An Oprah, Faulkner and Middle America

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Oprah Winfrey announced in the summer of 2004 that her book club would embark on a program called, 'A Summer of Faulkner', which was an attack on the whole idea of beach reading. Oprah has ignored pleas for a return to contemporary fiction and hence by proposing to read works of an author whose exploration of race and the American South still unsettles readers, she took a major gamble on her audience's attention span and political sensitivities.

Evaluation, Novelists, Works, Winfrey, Oprah, Books and reading, Faulkner, William, Summer reading programs

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Inspired infrastructure: The Clean Hub could bring solar electricity and basic sanitation to the world's slums

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Clean Hub, is a self-contained 10-by 20-foot structure that would supply solar electricity, clean water through reverse osmosis, waterless and self-composting toilets and bathing facilities. The Clean Hub can serve people in temporary settlements like refugee camps, or in semi permanent slums that lack basic infrastructure and can significantly improve the lives of the world's slum dwellers as called for by the United Nations' Millennium Goal.

Water Supply and Irrigation Systems, Engineering Services, Water supply, Water Treatment, ENGINEERING & MANAGEMENT SERVICES, Engineering for Refuse Systems, Water, Sanitary engineering, Slums

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High-tech help for the hungry

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Various poverty alleviation programs that happen all over the world unfortunately do not benefit the real poor and needy, due to lack of proper communication. Aidmatrix, a Dallas Texas based no-profit aid organization has developed an online system that enables both, the needy as well as the donor to match requirements and participate in web-assisted trading that will help all.

Donations, Poor, Charities

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