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Your guide to a career in online tutoring
New Delhi: Gone are the days when tuition classes meant long hours after school with a bespectacled, cane-wielding tutor, for tutorials are now available on the Internet and tutors today are smart and tech-savvy.Anushree holds a Bachelors degree in Science. I can pursue something else alongside," Anushree says explaining the job benfits.It may not sound glamorous enough, but e-tutoring is a booming industry, with students from UK, USA, UAE and India logging on to seek help with their Math and Science homework.And as schoolteacher Deepika, whos also a part time e-tutor, explains, a huge advantage of the job is that you can work with an e-tutoring company either on a full-time or part time basis."Neither the students nor I have to travel.
[Life Style] Gays and lesbians will not be sidelined at Euro 2008
Fed up with the homophobic atmosphere in European football, gay and lesbian fans are determined to take a stand at the Euro 2008.In Vienna, activists have initiated a poster competition to come up with a campaign against homophobia in football, while a gay party lounge called the LockerRoom has secured a coveted spot in the middle of the Zurich fan mile.The fact that there are no openly homosexual professional football players is the strongest indication for a homophobic atmosphere in this sport, organisers of both initiatives said.'In football, gays and lesbians have absolutely no opportunities, so we saw a strong need for action,' Hannes Sulzenbacher, one of the initiators of the poster competition, told DPA.The winning entry, chosen by the jury for its clear message, shows the torso of a player dressed in the Austrian team colours....[Life Style] Lingerie label dumps Kate Moss for younger model
They want a fresh new face and think theyve found just the candidate in Alice.Half-Brazilian Alice - who wears a nose ring - posed for a secret photo shoot to be released in September.Kates contract with the firm was not renewed last year amid rumours of tension between her and owner Serena Rees - but she returned for a bridal lingerie campaign this year.This is not the first fashion snub for the British catwalk queen.Naomi Campbell took her place for Yves Saint Laurent, while hot new model Agyness Deyn replaced her at Burberry....[Life Style] Brad Pitt drops $500,000 on furniture
Brad - whose long-term partner Angelina Jolie is pregnant with twins - made the trip from France on Tuesday (03.08) for Design Miami/Basel.Among Brad's purchases were a $293,000 marble table by designer Jeroen Verhoeven, a rug made of aluminium thread that sells at $175 per square foot and two $25,000 Ron Arad chairs....[Life Style] Book reveals Paulo Coelho’s wild, dark past
Sao Paolo: During the course of his life, Paulo Coelho spent time in a mental institution, wrote several popular songs and became one of world's best-selling authors with novels like The Alchemist.But according to biographer Fernando Morais, that doesn't begin to tell the story of the author's life.O Mago (The Wizard), a new biography of Coelho, reveals the wild, sometimes dark, past of the Brazilian writer."It has everything, violence, sex, religion, rock and roll, Satanism. It contains shocking confessions, he found in almost 200 diaries and 100 tapes that Coelho, 60, kept hidden in a chest for years.The 632-page book hit stores this week and sold more than 10,000 copies in Brazil the day it was released....[Life Style] Charles Dickens desk auctioned for £433,250
It is an astonishing amount.Dickens was an early patron of Great Ormond Street, and was a friend of its founder Charles West.The hospital also benefited from the support of other famous British authors including Peter Pan creator J M Barrie and Oscar Wilde.According to Christie's, Dickens wrote Great Expectations and a number of other late novels and short stories at the mahogany writing desk.The auctioneer quotes the memoirs of Dickens' eldest daughter Mamie Dickens saying that on the evening of June 8, 1870, Dickens wrote letters "and arranged some trifling business matters" in the library where the desk stood....[Life Style] Single baby boomers want sex not marriage
This is when most of the people came of age," said Glogovac.The survey of people in the United States and Canada by the company's site for older adults, prime.com, also found that 47 per cent of single boomers were primarily looking for friendship, while 19 per cent were seeking a sexual companion.The per centage of people wanting a serious relationship and those looking to casually date were about the same at 33 and 30 per cent respectively.A mere 10 per cent hoped to get married, compared with 60 per cent of those aged 30 to 39, Lavalife said....
[Life Style] Durex survey: Indians not sexually satisfied
A new global survey on sexual well-being conducted by the condom manufacturer Durex shows that Indians are low on sexual satisfaction.Achieving an orgasm is a ...
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