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Before Coldplay even plays Fix You for Malaysians in a concert, they’re fixing our rivers first. Coldplay has sponsored the Interceptor 005, a watercraft designed by the Dutch non-profit The Ocean Cleanup, to remove plastic rubbish from our rivers. The Interceptor 005 called the Neon Moon 1 will be deployed …

Author’s blurb: Because I’m primarily an English speaker, classes that were conducted in Mandarin and Malay back in my schooling years were dreadful. My difficulty in understanding them coupled with a lack of interest and practice were some of the reasons I now struggle to converse in these languages as …

Before the pandemic, it was not unusual for Tiffany Foy and a team of other dental hygienists to visit schools in rural and urban parts of Oregon to treat the teeth of thousands of children in a year. Many of the children they examined had cavities, painful abscesses and “big …

Of the many heartbreaking stories I’ve read or heard during this ghastly pandemic, one stands out as especially distressing, almost criminal. The headline, on Page 1 of The Times on April 12, read: “Empty Shelves, But Farms Put Food to Waste — Milk, Eggs and Produce Buried and Dumped.” That …