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The largest study so far to ask whether speaking two languages might delay the onset of dementia symptoms in bilingual patients as compared to monolingual patients has reported that bilingual patients suffer dementia onset an average of 4.5 years later than those who speak only a single language.

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Video discussion of Sujata Bhatt's poem.

The prevalence of gun violence in top PG-13 movies has more than tripled since the rating was introduced in the mid-1980s, a study says.

While English proficiency among European adults is generally increasing, proficiency in France is both low and declining.

From an eight-page form and a photograph to the Common App.

More colleges are finding the social media posts of their applicants - and sometimes denying admission as a result

Amnesty International PSA about torture

Photographer Dina Goldstein imagines what lives of the Disney princesses turned out to be if we left all the fairy tale luck and charm aside.

Employees of Bloomberg News said that it chose not to publish investigative articles about China's leadership because of worries that it would be evicted from the country.

Chris Dawe, CEO of The Phnom Penh Post, has formally congratulated Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling CPP on winning the contested July national election, according to state-owned news website Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP).

In the prelude to and direct aftermath of July's national election, local Khmer-language media largely ignored the opposition's growing street rallies and demonstrations.

South African photographer David Goldblatt's photos are a stark reminder of the hardships of Apartheid.

"The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a consensual sexual scenario..." (MPAA = Motion Picture Association of America)

John Agard - biography and some readings of his poems, including "Flag" and "Checking out my history"

No idea what cuzzies, sweet as, wop-wops or wuss mean? Kiwi slang classes at Wellington Central library have been helping migrants tackle these kinds of words, without being too hard out.

Amnesty's annual campaign encourages people to write to activists and ordinary citizens imprisoned for standing up for their rights.

Media "persuaders" use a variety of techniques to grab our attention, to establish credibility and trust, to stimulate desire for the product or policy, and to motivate us to act (buy, vote, give money, etc). From the Media Literacy Project

Reaction to a prize-winning novelist who recommended that children be forced to take elocution lessons, to "wipe out" their accents (BBC News 1999)