Companies complain that the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act creates an uneven playing field when doing business abroad in places corruption flourishes. Are they right?
Negotiations between members of the United Nations Command and North Korean counterparts in 2013.
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U.S. forces in South Korea are on high alert after North Korea claimed to have tested a hydrogen bomb last week. But China may be better positioned to curb North Korea’s menacing behavior.
Why is it so hard to figure out what medical care costs?
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President Obama’s call for better electronic gun-safety systems put a spotlight on the technologies currently in the R&D pipeline that aim to make sure only authorized users can fire a gun.
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah.
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Behind the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon lie decades of controversy over federal control of public land in western states.
Uneasy allies. U.S. President Obama with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman.
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Margot Kushel, University of California, San Francisco
Field research in Oakland highlights a major issue that Americans have yet to face up to: how to deal with growing numbers of homeless older people in our streets.
Shades of pink and blue: for the first time, Pantone has chosen a blending of two colors.
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The social media company seems to be mulling a massive increase in tweet length from the iconic 140 characters users have grown accustomed to.
Solar downtown: state-level policies led to a surge in solar adoption and energy efficiency measures in the late 2000s.
Massachusetts Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Will they stand with the protestors worried about an erosion of freedoms or with the companies eager to protect their intellectual property?
Microplastics sample collected in a plankton net trawl in the North Pacific subtropical gyre from the SSV Robert C Seamans.
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Lawrence Susskind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Ella Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
How can diverse societies agree on strategies for tackling complex problems? Lawrence Susskind and Ella Kim of MIT explain how role-playing games can help people learn to collaborate.
US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter leaves Israel with business undone. July 21, 2015.
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Demographic changes have made the idea of a two-state solution obsolete. The Israeli population is becoming more religious and more conservative. That makes the army more difficult to command.
The good old days.
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An examination of orthopedic surgery and knee replacement showed that higher payments were associated with markets dominated by a few large physician groups.
The Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is part of a complicated history of land in the western US.
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Like much federal land in the US West, the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge has a long history tied to Native Americans’ plight and conflicts between settlers and the federal government.
An aerial shot of Tromsø, Norway.
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