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Narinder Kumar wants to buy an electric steam iron. The 24-year-old dhobi, or washerman, earns his living ironing clothes with a coal-fired iron as his ancestors did, in the same shack in south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar district as his father and grandfather before him. It's...
Kumar has heard of global warming, but to him it's incomprehensible that the live coals in his iron are partly to blame for it by producing black carbon, or soot, a greenhouse gas considered more destructive than carbon dioxide. Though he would like to stop using coal - "an electric...
Summer, aside from being the hot season, is the playlist season: one for the backyard party, one for the drive to the beach, one for drinking on the curb at two in the morning, maybe one for that late night chat with the special lady friend. But for the extra...
Amidst the hundreds of R&B hopefuls that “American Idol” seems to produce every season—many of whom are more prone to howling than singing—the show has proven it can unearth a few gems as well. In Season 7, that...
The President's deferral of responsibility for the CIA investigation is more serious than his health-care meanderings. This is a matter of national security that will directly affect the morale and behavior of our clandestine services. The President can't say he wants to look forward, not backward, then...