Asia needs trillions of dollars in coming years to finance roads, sanitation plants and other key infrastructure. The IMF and World Bank can’t do it alone.
Deep-water coral Paramuricea sp. from 1000 meter depth at a site in the Atwater Valley region of the Gulf of Mexico.
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With the emergence of online technologies, the visually impaired can no longer depend on braille alone for their learning needs. App developers are stepping up to the challenge.
Ever wonder what’s on the mind of the opposite sex?
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Five years after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Gulf Coast communities are still grappling with the social and economic ills caused by the oil spill.
It turns out, men lock horns on online charity sites as well.
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A competition already took place ahead of this week’s road races in Boston and London: men outbidding each other to show an attractive woman how generous they are.
While we search for a cure, we are still searching for cause. A volunteer hangs bras during a promotion against breast cancer in Switzerland in 2008.
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Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act may have been “clarified” but there are concerns it could have a chilling effect on campus attitudes toward LGBTQ students and faculty across the state.
Occupy Wall Street targeted rising inequality, as many did in the Progressive Era.
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In the ongoing game of regulatory Whack-A-Mole, the amphetamine isomer BMPEA is just the latest stimulant to pop up in the wake of another being banned.
Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura, 80, before ascending Mt. Everest for the third time.
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Warren Sanderson, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York) and Sergei Scherbov, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
New research says we should discard conventional ways of analyzing what it means to age. It’s how well people function that counts.
Federal public land tends to return less revenue than state-run land because of bureaucracy and inefficient management.
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Figuring out points along the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math pipeline where women are doing ok can help focus efforts to improve sex ratios where they can make a difference.
Consumers and makers of plastic products want plastic to biodegrade to minimize the environmental impact, but some additives don’t live up to the claims.
Do you remember where you were when you heard about the 9/11 attacks? Or about the bombing at the Boston Marathon? Those are flashbulb memories – vivid, detailed and imperfect.
The National Transportation Safety Board made an ‘urgent’ recommendation to improve the safety of oil-carrying rail cars.
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