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Featured Article: Purusartha

In Hinduism, the purusarthas (Sanskrit: पुरुष-अर्थ) are the four main aims of life for Twice-born Hindu males. These teleological life-goals include both mundane and spiritual aspects providing a holistic understanding of life in all its capacities. The aims start from lower to higher thereby providing a graduated scheme of aspirations for Hindus to regulate and structure their ethical behavior and life direction. In living tradition, the notion of the four purusarthas represents a comprehensive approach to the satisfaction of a person's physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.

Popular Article: Time (magazine)

The cover of the first issue of Time on March 3, 1923, featuring Speaker of the House Joseph G. Cannon

TIME magazine is a weekly publication, based in New York City, bringing newsworthy items to the public in a format designed to be informative, yet concise and easy to read. The brainchild of Henry R. Luce, one the most significant people in twentieth-century media, and Briton Hadden, it was initially geared to the U.S. audience, but has expanded its worldwide circulation and now publishes several international editions. Its philosophy of telling the news through the eyes of people—not just as objective accounts of events—led to its popular feature, "Person of the Year," and inspired the development of People magazine.

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In China, girls' feet were bound so the arch was forced upward, resulting in a "lotus foot" (source: Foot binding)

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