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Sporting chance for disadvantaged youth
2014-05-23 01:44:56| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Charity giving youth a sporting chance
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Heatwaves hurt disadvantaged Australians hardest
2014-03-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: SIXTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD Bill McKenzie stands in the corridor on the eighth floor of the government housing complex where he lives, pointing accusingly at a thermometer fastened to the wall. He explains that at 4pm on January 17, as Melbourne sweltered through one of south-east Australia's worst heatwaves, the thermometer read 43 degrees hotter than it was outside. A short, wiry man with a shaved head, McKenzie is wearing a brown long-sleeved T-shirt, reading glasses strung around his neck. In his apartment,...
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Y Combinator's new startup teaches disadvantaged kids to code
2014-02-27 19:20:15| InfoWorld: Top News
Y Combinator is normally known for incubating startups from Reddit to ZenPayroll, but now it's joining forces with a nonprofit to put support behind the next generation of
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