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The World Bank has suspended funding for a tourism project in Tanzania. The $150 million project aims to improve management of natural resources and tourism assets. At least $100 million has already been disbursed for the project, which started in 2017.
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1 year ago Read more at ABC News

The new children's book highlights the challenges and resilience of the world's refugee children. The book is created by nonprofit publisher NABU, in close collaboration with ECW. ECW and NABU hope that Zaya’s Dream will inspire readers to learn more about this global education crisis and what actions they can take to make the dreams of crisis-affected children come true.
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1 year ago Read more at PR Newswire

This article is part of our Museums special section about how institutions are striving to offer their visitors more to see, do and feel. In the final scene of the 1944 musical film “Meet Me in St. Louis,” the Smith family wanders the grounds of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, better known as the 1904 World’s Fair.
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1 year ago Read more at The New York Times

It's unique pear-like shape is a hint that the dent struck Pluto obliquely, rather than head-on. It is possible that a body about the size of Switzerland crashed into Pluto long ago, at a shallow angle. If true, this picture would also hint at what Plutoâ€TMs interior may look like under its cryogenic surface.
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1 year ago Read more at Space.com

astronomers have detected nearly 500 planets beyond our solar system since the late 1990s. The new planet orbits within the so-called 'habitable zone' of its star.
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1 year ago Read more at Science@NASA

Jude Bellingham was honored with the Breakthrough of the Year award. At the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards in Madrid, Bellingham said, “I’m delighted”. Bellingham has already clinched the Golden Boy Award and the Kopa Trophy.
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1 year ago Read more at Managing Madrid

RBZ Governor, John Mushayavanhu, blamed the World Bank for the ineffectiveness of the Zimbabwean Integrated Gold-backed currency (ZiG) despite the efforts to promote ZiG, skepticism looms large among Zimbabweans, with many fearing its inevitable failure akin to the troubled RTGS.
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1 year ago Read more at ZimEye - Zimbabwe News

Rediance has acquired world sales rights to "The Falling Sky" The film portrays the indigenous community of Watorik as it engages in a funeral rite known as the reahu. The film stands as a trenchant shamanic critique of the destruction of the Yanomami’s way of life caused by the intrusions of the nap and the white prospectors.
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1 year ago Read more at Variety

Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, buttressing a dozen major glaciers, may be surprisingly sensitive to warming. A new study suggests this was triggered by a rearrangement of ocean currents set off by minor amount of ocean warming — just half a degree Celsius. If the sheet melted entirely, it would raise sea levels enough to put Miami; Newark, N.J.; Charleston, S.C. and the Bahamas underwater at high tide.
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1 year ago Read more at Science News Magazine

Claire Casselton, 49, broke the Guinness World Record for the Fastest Marathon Dressed as a Skeleton (female) on Sunday, April 21, coming in at 3:51:01, with just 162 seconds to spare. She decided to run the 26.2-mile race in costume to raise money for the Bone Cancer Research Trust (BCRT) after her sister-in-law Carolyn was diagnosed with the condition last year. Claire had to wear a skeleton mask for the entire race
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1 year ago Read more at Watford Observer