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They are created by cracking fiercely difficult mathematical puzzles. They have soared in value, plummeted and risen again and you can use them to pay for everything from illegal drugs to natural cosmetics. They are the virtual currency Bitcoin, and ...
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Zachary ‘Zach’ L Bonner is an American philanthropist and founder of a non-profit called Little Red Wagon Foundation. In 2012, Zach became the youngest person ever to walk across America for charity when he travelled 2450 mil...
On Top of the World
This month – 29th May – marks the 60th anniversary of the ascent of Mount Everest, the highest peak on Earth. On that momentous day New Zealander, Edmund Hillary, and the Nepalese Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, become the first peop...
Throughout the history of the USA, discriminatory laws have stripped the most marginalized people in society of their constitutional rights and it’s taken the work of activists dedicated to justice to challenge such threats t...
Humanitarian crisis at Guantanamo
Martha Gies is an advisor to Street Roots in America. In March, she stopped eating in solidarity with detainees at Guantánamo, some of whom had been on hunger strike for six weeks. At time of writing, nearly two-thirds of the...
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