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Paula Allen
"Activist with a camera" Paula Allen is finishing the new edition of Flores en el Desierto (Flowers in the Desert), which will be published by the University Press of Florida. The book tells the story of the women of Calama, Chile and their 17-year search in the desert for the remains of their loved ones, who were disappeared after the 1973 military coup. She is also returning to Haiti for the third time since last year's earthquake, and will be joined by Laura Simms, internationally renowned storyteller. The two artists will begin a collaborative project documenting the process, stories, and lives of mothers and children in a tent camp.
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Zainab Al-Suwaij
Zainab Al Suwaij currently travels to the Middle East every six weeks to work on the American Islamic Congress' growing programs. Ambassadors for Peace, which started in Basrah, Iraq, has expanded to Baghdad, as well, to reach out to tribal leaders, politicians, NGO workers, and youth in order to mediate conflict in these areas. With the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and imminent elections, she is also busy working with AIC's Cairo office on youth education and activism, as well as establishing AIC's Tunis office, which will focus on civil society building.
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 Tal Ben-Shahar
Want to get happier? Try Tal Ben-Shahar's online course Introducing Positive Psychology. Topics include: the positivity ratio, the permission to be human, appreciating appreciation, and lasting change.
Additional courses will be available soon, including leadership, realizing your dreams, relationships, the mind-body connection, self-esteem, education, and more. Go to www.talbenshahar.com
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Laura Berman
On "In The Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman," love, sex and relationship expert Dr. Berman makes house calls to help troubled couples and uncover what's really going on in the bedroom. The show has been running successfully all year on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) and has been picked up for another year.
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Sonja Lyubomirsky
Sonja Lyubomirsky and her students have begun to run experiments in the U.S., UK, South Korea, and Japan to test how and why happiness-increasing strategies work, as well as to explore genetic and environmental influences on how people respond to happiness-increasing interventions.
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Mark Matousek
Matousek's latest book, Ethical Wisdom: What Makes Us Good, about the emerging science of a global morality, was recently released by Doubleday.
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Deborah Siegel
Gender expert Deborah Siegel recently launched a new "social" writing project: The Pink and Blue Diaries. Siegel, a new mother to boy-girl twins, is building community and debate around the gendering of childhood as she works on her own writing on this theme. Follow her on Twitter (@deborahgirlwpen), visit her new blog, and check out her new column at She Writes, where she also tackles issues of work/life, motherhood, and the writing life.
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Bill Wallauer
World-renowned videographer Bill Wallauer offers a unique and fascinating view of life among wild chimpanzees in this online interview for The Washington Post. For 15 years, Bill spent just about every day following the wild chimpanzees of Gombe National Park in Tanzania, capturing the intimate details of their daily life. He has commented that, during that period of his life, he spent more time with chimpanzees than with humans. live.washingtonpost.com/bill-wallauer-life-in-the-wild.html
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Alison Wright
Peripatetic photojournalist, Alison Wright, recently returned from leading a photography workshop in Chiapas, Mexico. Just before, she traveled to China, where she photographed "cute surfer boys" on Hainan Island for Islands magazine. Now, Wright is off to China again, shooting a travel book for National Geographic in China. When she returns, she is looking forward to her next photo tour in Rajasthan, India for the Pushkar Camel fair, www.pixelchrome.com/blog/?p=169.
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