Globalization
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Nepal: Wireless in the Mountains
February 16, 2009
A home WiFi kit and a solar-powered relay station transform healthcare and education for a remote village in western Nepal.
borders, community, development, globalization, innovation, technology
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Kathmandu: Diplomatic Waters
December 26, 2008
Reporting from the developing world, traveling science writer Gaia Vince relays her first dispatch from the meltwaters of the Himalaya.
climate, development, globalization, policy, research, water
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No Resting on Laurels
October 14, 2008
The Olympics, China's world debut, have ended. Now what?
climate, development, globalization, growth, policy, population
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In Defense of Difference
October 07, 2008
Scientists offer new insight into what to protect of the world's rapidly vanishing languages, cultures, and species.
cities, demographics, development, ethics, globalization, population
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Turning a Blind Eye
September 25, 2008
An image said to reveal an "unknown" tribe instead exposes a history of our ignorance and greed.
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China, Revisited
August 12, 2008
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World
Sad Sacks
As a UK adviser is fired over politically unpalatable advice and an English teacher is suspended over an article about animal sexuality, the fate of facts is on the line.
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Ideas
Sweet Obesity
As obesity rates soar, Americans are consuming more low-calorie artificial sweeteners. But do artificial sweeteners actually help people lose weight?
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Books
Books to Read Now
November releases feature the mysteries of Grigori Perelman, the evolutionary origins of reading, and strategies for containing strains of flu.
