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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Nepal, home to Mount Everest, is a land where royalty and power resides in the capital while Maoists rebels stoke anger in the countryside over lack of jobs and development in one of the world's poorest nations.
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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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She has a title and a famous father, but among Asia's political princesses Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir is something of a rebel.
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Grand lessons from grand larceny: An inspiring tale for today's youth.
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Lessons from two world-traveling retirees.
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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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Here's some help for those between a rock and a hard place.
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By S. SRINIVASAN    BITHOOR, India  -- For 12-year-old Anju Sharma, hope for a better life arrives in her poor farming village three days a week on a bicycle rickshaw that carries a computer with a high-speed, wireless Internet connection...
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The odds are against this trio.
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A Supreme Court decision in favor of one protesting village has inspired others.
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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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Comment is free: Neal Lawson: The challenge is to seize the initiative and create a new public realm that enables a more equal world to take shape.
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Working in poverty-stricken areas  gives corporate travelers an up-close look at global problems  such as disease, illiteracy or injustice. It also puts them in  a position to bring about change.
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Often dismissed as a quirky pipe dream, it took a thrill-seeking mogul to energize one of mankind's oldest desires. By James Lee from Wired magazine.
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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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An unlikely meeting of minds on an issue of global concern.