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...movie, the divide leads to revolution. In real life, Kapur says, Dharavi will somehow adapt to its unpromising future. In reality, he adds, Bombay's rich are not nasty, but they have too little contact with the poor to understand their plight. "Over there," he says, indicating the high-rises, "they believe toilet paper is soft and beautiful. Here, they know it's to wipe yourself." Money can blind as well as dazzle, he's saying. Sometimes it just gets in the way. And he would know...
...Magistrates Court, it happens most often when parents agree between themselves to try it. Recent research by the Australian Institute of Family Studies suggests that some 6% of separated parents use shared care - and that it's parents more than judges who conceive of more novel and mutually satisfying contact arrangements...
...Though it's always been possible under Australia's Family Law Act for grandparents to make an application to the court for residential custody of, or contact with, a child, the parliamentary committee suggested this isn't well known in the community. The Australian Government is set to make several grandparent-friendly amendments to the Act. One would stipulate that parenting plans could - and should - address how both sets of grandparents might continue a relationship with their grandchildren. Another would require judges to consider grandparental contact when determining what is in the best interests of the child. Grandparents would also...
...that Kiwis don't grasp the problem. A recent survey by power company Contact Energy found that "overwhelmingly people value security of supply ahead of price or environmental concerns," says chief executive Stephen Barrett. New Zealand has plenty of options for ensuring that security: rushing rivers for hydroelectricity, rich coal reserves that, thanks to the gas windfall, have hardly been touched. But for almost every option there are opponents, sometimes very angry ones. And the delay-plagued process for vetting resource developments makes it easy for the noisy to get their way. "Small numbers of people, who may not even...
...travels, which have already taken her to 11 countries in her first six weeks on the job, will be more extensive than most of her predecessors'. "The Secretary will travel when there's serious diplomatic work to be done," says Wilkinson. "There's no better diplomacy than personal contact...