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India's Potty Problem

Which statement is true?  A. 60% of all households without toilets in the world are in India.B. India’s Muslims are less affected by the sanitation problem than Hindus.C. India’s lack of toilets is...

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A liter of acid can destroy someone's life

Almost 10 years ago, a young Pakistani woman was held down by her mother-in-law while her husband and father-in-law threw acid on her. Some 150 operations later, Bushra Shafi is working as a...

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Rapes Cases Show Clash Between Old and New India

A boom and social change are pitting young working women in the city against men from conservative villages.Kendra King's insight:It is hearting to see the police force in the modernized area taking...

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The limits of freedom for educated girls in Malala's Pakistan

In a country this battered, fractured, dysfunctional – how much can she really hope to achieve? The issue of female education in Pakistan has exploded after Malala Yousafzai was attacked by the...

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Why China's Pollution Could Be Behind Our Cold, Snowy Winters

A video from NASA shows how air pollution moves around the world. So what happens when emissions from Asia blow across the Pacific Ocean to North America?Kendra King's insight:According to this...

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The colourful propaganda of Xinjiang

"China is in the midst of a crackdown on what it describes as 'terrorism driven by religious extremism'. The campaign is focused on the western province of Xinjiang, home to China's Uighur ethnic...

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Beijing's Facelift

"A government-initiated redevelopment plan will transform one of the oldest neighborhoods in Beijing into a polished tourist attraction."Kendra King's insight:Normally I am annoyed at projects that end...

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Military Shift For Japan?

"Citing threats from China and North Korea, a government-appointed panel is urging Japan to reinterpret its pacifist constitution to allow the use of military force to defend other countries."Kendra...

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What Pollution? Hong Kong Tourists Pose With Fake Skyline

Picture this: Tourists visiting one of your city's most prominent attractions are unable to see it because of smog, haze and a bevy of other airborne pollutants. What's the solution?Kendra King's...

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Burmese refugees pay up to $1,000 for official refugee status in Malaysia

UN officials describing themselves as ‘thieves’ claim money from illegal trade goes to ‘some top guys in the UN’Kendra King's insight:Geographically, there is a major push factor causing the people of...

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Unusual ways to avoid Jakarta's traffic

Jakarta's traffic is legendary and locals have now become experts at finding ways to get around the jams, with some even making money out of them. The population of Indonesia is heavily concentrated...

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Flexible Urban Planning

mixed used train-tracks/market place... Kendra King's insight:On the one hand this disturbed me. All I kept thinking when I saw the people go back on the tracks is that they could easily be killed.In...

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Philippines Overtakes India as Hub of Call Centers

Many companies have moved their customer service lines to Manila to take advantage of workers who speak lightly accented English and are familiar with American culture. The geography of globalization...

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Video: Fighting Poverty with Ingenuity

I absolutely love creative, out-of-the-box, innovative people! People who use their creativity to make a difference in the World.... Incredible! "We want to ... Kendra King's insight:This is such a...

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A Review of Jared Diamond's "The World Until Yesterday"

Should we look to traditional societies to help us tweak our lives? Wade Davis takes issue with the whole ideaKendra King's insight:As a member of the Western world where technology and modernity are...

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Aborigines threaten to shut Uluru

Aboriginal leaders threaten to ban tourists from a top Australian landmark in protest at "racist" government policies.Kendra King's insight:I have an issue with the fact this legislation isn’t...

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Australia's heatwave: a taste of things to come

Unprecedented heat and bushfires are a wake-up call, says Tim Flannery, but we're running out of time.Kendra King's insight:In an earlier post, I complained about the changing climate in New England....

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Penguins from Space: A New Satellite Census Doubles the Known Population of...

High-resolution imaging has allowed scientists to produce the first full count of Antarctica's emperor penguins... Before this, there was no way to to gather reliable penguin statistics.  Geospatial...

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Coral Reefs Most at Risk

A new map ranks the world's coral reefs by the risks they face from warming oceans, overfishing and other stress factors, which will help scientists focus on conserving the reefs with the most likely...

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Why reconstructing Haiti has been so slow

Experts and aid officials discuss ongoing challenges and lessons learnt on the ground in Haiti... Development and humanitarian aid projects must always take local geographic factors into consideration...

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Belize: A Spanish Accent in an English-Speaking Country

"BELIZE has long been a country of immigrants. British timber-cutters imported African slaves in the 18th century, and in the 1840s Mexican Mayans fled a civil war."Kendra King's insight:Belize is...

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Why these Somali refugees do not want to leave Kenya

"For millions of refugees across Africa life is a daily struggle.  Many dream of one day returning to their homeland while others have spent decades building a new life.  On World Refugee Day, BBC...

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Palestine is but one of many aspiring to the United Nations

Admission to the General Assembly of the UN is not open to all. The Palestinian Territories are just one of several regions without a seat at the world's top table. Palestine's bid for statehood and...

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Israel and Palestine

Watch this Jewish Voice for Peace 6 minute mini-primer about why Israelis and Palestinians are fighting..Kendra King's insight:The video was informative, but bias. I have a stronger understanding of...

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Mosul Dam key win for Islamic State

"Islamic State's capture of the Mosul dam gives it control over the water and electricity supply in northern Iraq."Kendra King's insight:As the director of the Brookings Institution's Doha Centre in...

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The role of social networking in the Arab Spring

A case study for our World Development text book... How useful was digital technology, particularly social networking sites, to democracy protesters in Tunisia and Egypt?  How important are the...

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China's Plan to Dig a Canal Across Nicaragua

"By the end of this year, digging could begin on a waterway that would stretch roughly 180 miles across Nicaragua to unite the Atlantic and Pacific oceans."Kendra King's insight:Form the perspective of...

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Puerto Rico's Battered Economy: The Greece Of The Caribbean?

With the highest unemployment rate in the U.S. and a mountain of debt, the island is facing a declining population. But those who stay insist they're there for the long haul.Kendra King's insight:I...

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Mixing Past And Present In Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea, once home to cannibals, still has an exotic aura. The local tourist economy caters to those notions, and visitors may see a hybrid of the traditional and the modern. This story is an...

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The Strategic Importance of the Caspian Sea

"Stratfor Eurasia Analyst Eugene Chausovsky examines the Caspian Sea's large energy reserves and its conflicting maritime boundaries."Kendra King's insight:This video does a great job depicting how...

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