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Deborah Hill Cone: Nice warmth if you can get it
While Zac Guildford gets forgiveness and life coaching, run-of-the-mill crims get locked up and ignored.
Tracey Barnett: Time to revisit small stories posing big questions
Weather engineering, suicidal soldiers and inconvenient truth for governments.
Dark mood in election year as American Dream falters
Despair over political deadlock may yet produce a watershed poll result.
Election 2011: Small businesses' battlefield
The Herald examines where each party stands on big issues
Deborah Hill Cone: Getting older - get used to it
Ageing afflicts us all eventually, so maybe it's time to declare truce in the battle of the generations.
When a language is on its death bed
Dona Aida de Jesus is 96 years old and one of the last custodians of a dying language.
Girls ditch food to gain 'ideal' shape
British study finds a third of girls aged between 10 and 11 are adopting drastic methods to pursue their ideal body shape.
One in seven billion - what's your number?
The world's seven billionth person will be born on October the 31, but what number are you?
World's population set to hit seven billion
Asia and Africa will determine future global population growth, writes The Independent's Hamish McRae.