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By Abdoulaye Mar Dieye - Dec 24, 2014 - Last updated at Dec 24, 2014 22:10
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is destroying lives, decimating communities and orphaning children at a rate not seen since the region&rsq ...
By Le Houezec Jacques - Dec 23, 2014 - Last updated at Dec 23, 2014 23:42
Michael Russell and Murray Jarvik, two pioneers of smoking-cessation research in the 1970s, would probably have welcomed the development of ...
By Mike McGinn - Dec 20, 2014 - Last updated at Dec 20, 2014 23:08
Sometimes the best measure of a movement’s momentum is the reaction of its critics. ...
By Michael Jacobs - Dec 20, 2014 - Last updated at Dec 20, 2014 23:05
It was the agreement that everyone wanted, yet that no one much likes.
This year’s annual United Nations climate-change conference in ...
By Günter Verheugen - Dec 17, 2014 - Last updated at Dec 17, 2014 23:30
Today’s world is not the stable, post-historical place some had imagined in 1989, when the Iron Curtain fell and communist rule in Eas ...
By Ruba Zinati - Dec 14, 2014 - Last updated at Dec 14, 2014 23:51
The Palestinian problem, over 65 years old, is still not solved, but gets more complicated by the day.
Its ramifications impede the well-be ...
By Glenn Hubbard - Dec 13, 2014 - Last updated at Dec 13, 2014 23:47
America, once again, will have a divided government, with the Democrats holding the White House and the Republicans controlling both houses ...
By Nick Raistrick - Dec 11, 2014 - Last updated at Dec 11, 2014 23:13
There are some people who associate the Arab world with misery and conflict; they tell me to be careful when I travel to the region from the ...
By Lawrence O. Gostin - Dec 10, 2014 - Last updated at Dec 10, 2014 23:22
The United States and Europe have grossly overreacted to a few isolated cases of the Ebola virus within their borders.
These panicked respo ...
By Ricardo Lagos - Dec 10, 2014 - Last updated at Dec 10, 2014 23:20
Latin America may have weathered the global economic slowdown, but for many, the potential impact of global warming, and the measures requir ...