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How Warren Buffett's Son Would Feed the World
The Atlantic

How Warren Buffett's Son Would Feed the World

Howard G. Buffett has spent most of his life as a farmer, with little financial support from his father until recently. Now he runs a multibillion-dollar foundation dedicated to ending world hunger.

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10+ mins  |
May 2016
Uganda's Top Export: Mercenaries
Bloomberg Businessweek

Uganda's Top Export: Mercenaries

How Uganda became the world's leading source of soldiers.

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10+ mins  |
May 16 - May 22, 2016
Russia's Nuclear Nightmare Flows Down Radioactive River
Techlife News

Russia's Nuclear Nightmare Flows Down Radioactive River

Rose Byrne’s ascent to comedy stardom has been a surprise to everyone but herself.

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May 08,2016
The Real Hamilton: What's Not to Love?
Bloomberg Businessweek

The Real Hamilton: What's Not to Love?

Alexander Hamilton’s pro-business and big government ideas wouldn’t make him popular today.

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May 2 - May 8, 2016
The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans
The Atlantic

The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans

Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency. I’m one of them.

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May 2016
Painful Memories on Chernobyl's 30th Anniversary
Techlife News

Painful Memories on Chernobyl's 30th Anniversary

As Ukraine and Belarus on Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident with solemn words and an angry protest, some of the men who were sent to the site in the first chaotic and frightening days were gripped by painful memories.

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May 01,2016
How Islam Created Europe
The Atlantic

How Islam Created Europe

In late antiquity, Islam split the Mediterranean world in two. Now it is remaking the Continent.

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May 2016
Poll: Getting Facts Right Key to Americans' Trust in Media
Techlife News

Poll: Getting Facts Right Key to Americans' Trust in Media

Actor Omar Sharif (1932-2015) will always be remembered for his roles in Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago.

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April 24,2016
The $2 Trillion Project to Get Saudi Arabia's Economy Off Oil
Bloomberg Businessweek

The $2 Trillion Project to Get Saudi Arabia's Economy Off Oil

The extraordinary project to get Saudi Arabia's economy off oil.

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April 25 - May 1, 2016
The Mystery of Why People Go Missing in Alaska
The Atlantic

The Mystery of Why People Go Missing in Alaska

Two families, two bodies, and a wilderness of secrets.

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10+ mins  |
April 2016
The Truth About Abolition
The Atlantic

The Truth About Abolition

The movement gets the big, bold history it deserves.

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9 mins  |
April 2016
A Veteran's True Battle: Staying Sane After Returning Home
Playboy Magazine US

A Veteran's True Battle: Staying Sane After Returning Home

Can a single injection save thousands of soldiers suffering from severe PTSD? An Afghanistan combat vet goes under the needle to find out if there really is a cure for war.

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April 2016
Dogs May Be the Best Line Of Defense Against Subway Attacks
Techlife News

Dogs May Be the Best Line Of Defense Against Subway Attacks

Waluscha De Sousa speaks to Shubarna Mukerji Shu about all things that go into making her the hottest newbie in tinsel town! (a debut opposite Shah Rukh Khan is an instant attention-grabber, after all!)

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April 04, 2016
How ISIS Is Taking War to Social Media
Popular Science

How ISIS Is Taking War to Social Media

ISIS goes viral - and the world fights back.

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March - April 2016
Central Bankers Aren't Superheroes
Bloomberg Businessweek

Central Bankers Aren't Superheroes

Janet Yellen, Mario Draghi, and others have limited powers to stimulate growth.

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April 11 - April 24, 2016
The U.S. Is a Big Oil Importer Again
Bloomberg Businessweek

The U.S. Is a Big Oil Importer Again

Now that exports are allowed, the industry is hoarding foreign crude. 

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April 4 - April 10, 2016
Under Fire From Washington, Pharma Is Fighting to Repair Its Reputation
ADWEEK

Under Fire From Washington, Pharma Is Fighting to Repair Its Reputation

As Washington considers limiting consumer pharmaceutical advertising, the industry tries to burnish its image. 

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March 28, 2016
Why So Many Superpowers Are Dropping Billions in Djibouti
Bloomberg Businessweek

Why So Many Superpowers Are Dropping Billions in Djibouti

​How a forgotten sandlot of a country became a hub of international power games.

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March 28 - April 3, 2016
What It's Like to Run a Company in the Most Dangerous Places on Earth
Inc.

What It's Like to Run a Company in the Most Dangerous Places on Earth

Inside the deadly, controversial, highly secretive, and crucially important private warfare waged by Patriot Group.

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March 2016
Brussels: Europe's Jihadi Capital
Bloomberg Businessweek

Brussels: Europe's Jihadi Capital

Even before a devastating bomb attack hit Brussels on March 22, it was clear the European Union's capital had also become a capital of European terrorism.

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March 28 - April 3, 2016
Inside the Billion-Dollar Dig to America’s Biggest Copper Deposit
Bloomberg Businessweek

Inside the Billion-Dollar Dig to America’s Biggest Copper Deposit

The worlds two biggest mining companies spent $1 billion to get to a giant deposit of copper. Then the market crashed. They're still digging deeper.

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March 21 - March 27, 2016
The Journalist and the Troll: This Man Spent Two Years Trying to Destroy Me Online
Bloomberg Businessweek

The Journalist and the Troll: This Man Spent Two Years Trying to Destroy Me Online

A financier named Benjamin we has spent two years telling the world I'm a bigot, a liar, a thief, and worse.

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March 21 - March 27, 2016
Cuba's Socialist Regime Drags Its Feet On Trade With US
Bloomberg Businessweek

Cuba's Socialist Regime Drags Its Feet On Trade With US

Despite U.S. overtures, the island’s entrenched socialists remain intransigent about trade.

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March 21 - March 27, 2016
Access Granted: How to Get the Travel Visa You Need
Business Traveler

Access Granted: How to Get the Travel Visa You Need

Your travel plans are confirmed – but you won’t be going anywhere unless you have the right visa.

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7 mins  |
March 2016
The Elusive Maggie Thatcher
The Atlantic

The Elusive Maggie Thatcher

Why distorting Mrs. T. has been a popular literary pastime.  

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7 mins  |
March 2016
Brazil's Corruption Scandal Grows Ever Nearer To Rousseff
Bloomberg Businessweek

Brazil's Corruption Scandal Grows Ever Nearer To Rousseff

Arrests and new charges further inflame the political crisis around Brazil’s president.

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March 14 - March 20, 2016
Fukushima: Five Years Later
Popular Science

Fukushima: Five Years Later

Japan is still cleaning up one of the worst nuclear disasters the world has ever seen. Steve Featherstone went there to see how much they have accomplished and how far they have to go.

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March - April 2016
Drone-Mounted Handgun, Flamethrower Reignites Debate
Techlife News

Drone-Mounted Handgun, Flamethrower Reignites Debate

Theres nothing like staring skywards for a stress-busting, atmospheric, out-of-this world experience. Try a trip that combines stargazing with adventure

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March 06,2016
What China Could Learn From Richard Nixon
The Atlantic

What China Could Learn From Richard Nixon

The country’s growth is inexorably slowing. The wrong response could make that problem much worse.

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8 mins  |
March 2016
Who Unplugged North Korea From the Internet?
The Hollywood Reporter

Who Unplugged North Korea From the Internet?

A new book reveals for the first time exactly what an elite group of government ops did after a ‘shockingly lax’ Sony, ‘protected by the lamest passwords— on the order of 12345,’ was hacked.

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Double Issue - March 11-18, 2016