In a Flat World, a Rebel With a Cause
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âPersepolis,â austere as it may look, is full of warmth and surprise, alive with humor and a fierce independence of spirit.
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A Supreme Court decision in favor of one protesting village has inspired others.
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Four years ago, on the other side of the world, Doug Mientkiewicz's life was about to change.
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Something odd happened on the way to global recovery. The shoppers are not turning out the way they normally do when things start to look up.
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The discounter shows a willingness to think outside the big box.
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These days, capital and goods cross borders with ease. Lant Pritchett says that if the developing worldâs workers could do the same, everyone would benefit.
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Comment is free: Julian Glover: Government exists to achieve tasks individuals cannot tackle alone. On the environmental crisis, it has badly failed.
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An American activist tries to save an island paradise, one lecture at a time.
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People, even rulers, sometimes permit themselves to do things they have always wanted to do but never dared. This is the situation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who realized that he had an unrepeatable
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An online role-playing game is to be built by a community of ordinary gamers.
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It's not easy being the leader of Europe's socialist "utopia," France. It takes a penchant for other people's money, a distinct anti-American attitude, and the ability to sleep on the run.
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The world Rand wanted her heroes to build now seems far from revolutionary; it can even seem somewhat quaint, an almost retro fantasy.
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Some residents plan to escape; some plan to protest; some hope to do all of that, and make a buck or two subletting apartments to Republicans.
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There is a dissonance between two camps of modern liberal ideology, both of which have had a deep influence on my thinking. On the one hand there is the green ideology that advocates buying locally produced products or growing your own and the general  reduction of energy usage. On the other there is the drop the debt coalition that is attempting to help the developing world drag itself up and become a richer place.   This article is my attempt to resolve their influence on my own beliefs, with regards to philanthropy.
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The nation's foreclosure crisis has led to a painful irony for homeless people: On any given night they are outnumbered in some cities by vacant houses, and some street people are taking advantage of the opportunity by becoming squatters.
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It looks as if the Material Girl isn't going to be leaving this   material world anytime soon.
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From activists to tycoons, politicians to inventors, these remarkable people offer hope for the future