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I had lunch with Iain today at Tiffin Wallah, a new Indian restaurant on 28th Street in Curry Hill.
Tiffin Wallah translates as - one who carries the box. Tiffin is an old English word for a light lunch, and also the name of the multi-compartment metal lunch box that carries it. Tiffin Wallahs originated [...]

Last weekend was my friend and fellow ‘AVAAZer‘, Graziela’s (pictured above on the right), last weekend in New York before heading back to her post in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  The picture was taken at the AVAAZ.org training retreat at The Retreat at Art Omi in upstate New York.
On Saturday, we met up in SoHo, [...]

From The Guardian:
In the history of road transport, there can rarely have been such a poetic excuse for a traffic jam: Taiwan will close a busy motorway section this week to allow butterflies to flutter by.
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Avaaz.org’s “Stop the Clash of Civilizations,” is a finalist in an online nonprofit video competition. We need your vote to help us win. Winning the competition will help us further our mission of promoting peace talks in the Middle East and raising public awareness about the issue. Talk is rising of a [...]

Web censorship spreading globally
By Richard Waters in San Francisco
Published: March 14 2007 22:03 | Last updated: March 14 2007 22:03
Internet censorship is spreading rapidly, being practised by about two dozen countries and applied to a far wider range of online information and applications, according to research by a transatlantic group of academics.
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