Skinniest Person In The World- 55 lbs
I’m not going to teach young girls how to die’: Frightening words of 4st anorexic who gets FAN MAIL because she’s so thin
Valeria Levitin, 39, developed the eating disorder as a teenager after years of her mother weighing [...]
Meet the first woman to buy a Harley-Davidson in India
India’s first female owner of a Harley Davidson Road King says that biking is more about skills than muscles.
Why should men have all the fun with Harley Davidson? Bangalore-based HR professional Sheeja Mathews today became the first woman [...]
India’s first lady biker Alisha Abdullah vrooming in male terrain
An invitation from FIM, the world motorsport federation, to participate in the Women’s Road Racing Training Camp in Spain this October forced Alisha Abdullah to change her plans. India’s only woman bike racer had all but given up [...]
Amar Gopal Bose: Man who revolutionized sound goes silent
Call him the Minister of Sound. He earned that sobriquet. Amar Gopal Bose, the famously reclusive man who headed the eponymous company Bose Corporation, distinguished himself from the crowd for his imagination, grit, courage and for gifting [...]
Woman born without any adipose tissue: A motivational speaker
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The ‘World’s Ugliest Woman,’ Who Can’t Gain Weight At 58 Pounds
Rare: Miss Velasquez was born without any adipose tissue, meaning she has no body fat and, despite eating up to 60 small meals a day, remains at a [...]
Srishti Asthana named among the top 15 finalists in Google Science Fair 2013
Chandigarh girl’s search for success with Google
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Srishti Asthana, daughter of Punjab IGP S.K. Asthana, named among the top 15 finalists in Google Science Fair 2013
Srishti Asthana, a XI standard student from Millenium School, Mohali [...]
The Piramal Healthcare Director runs the business with a smile
In the mid-1970s, a medical student at the University of Mumbai was driving in the city’s Parel mill district, when she saw a girl, about four years old, hobbling on tiny crutches. The child had polio. The future Dr Swati Piramal, then [...]
Swati Piramal, Director of Piramal Healthcare || The Forum at HSPH
Dr. Swati Piramal (MPH ’92) is the Director of Piramal Healthcare, a drug discovery company that aims to bring affordable medicines to reduce the burden of disease globally. Dr. Piramal leads a team of scientists in cancer, diabetes, inflammation [...]
Tiny fossil tells big tale
Scientists use a single finger bone from ancient, humanlike Denisovans to study their connection to modern people and Neandertals
The Denisova Cave, in Siberia, is home to the only remains of the ancient Denisovans. Credit: Max Planck Institute [...]
