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Mahmoud Mohieldin

Getting Cities Right

WASHINGTON, DC – The developing world is experiencing rapid urbanization, with the number of city dwellers set to reach four billion in 2030…
Anne-Marie Slaughter

The Coming Atlantic Century

PRINCETON – The United States is rising; Europe is stabilizing; and both are moving closer together. That was the principal message earlier …
Hans-Werner Sinn

The Collateral Damage of Europe’s Rescue

MUNICH – The eurozone is now in its sixth year of crisis – and of efforts by the European Central Bank and the international community to en…
Paul R. Ehrlich

The Food Threat to Human Civilization

PALO ALTO – Humanity faces a growing complex of serious, highly interconnected environmental problems, including much-discussed challenges l…

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Tony Rothman May 22, 2013

Apocalypse Not Now

PRINCETON – Recently, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, located near Geneva at…
Christopher Lane May 14, 2013

The Distortion of Grief

CHICAGO – How long does it take to mourn the death of a loved one? The question is peculiar, even mildly offensive. Recovery from bereavemen…
Javier DeFelipe May 8, 2013

Clearing A Path Through the Brain

MADRID – Our brains are like a dense forest – a complex, seemingly impenetrable terrain of interacting neurons that mediates cognition and b…
Beth Cardier, Beth Cardier May 8, 2013

The Curing Machine

VIRGINIA BEACH – Last year, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded for a discovery that took 44 years to develop, and involved two differen…
Donna Dickenson May 6, 2013

DNA at 60

LONDON – On April 25, 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson published a one-page paper that many believed would revolutionize biological rese…
Jean-Jacques Cassiman Apr. 26, 2013

Tempering the Genetic Revolution

LEUVEN – We may not be fully aware of it, but future generations will likely consider our era truly historic. Never before has mankind been …
Esther Dyson Apr. 25, 2013

Exceptions Become the Rule

NEW YORK – Long ago, I worked as an analyst on Wall Street. The first company that I analyzed was Federal Express, which at the time had not…
Parag Khanna Apr. 24, 2013

Hybrid Humans

SINGAPORE – The election of a new pope always sparks debate about the tension between tradition and modernity in the Catholic Church. Perhap…
Seth Berkley Apr. 12, 2013

Beating the Child Killers

GENEVA – Ask most people to name the two biggest causes of death among children, and they will most likely say malaria and HIV. In fact, it …
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Arjun Jayadev Apr. 8, 2013

India’s Patently Wise Decision

NEW YORK – The Indian Supreme Court’s refusal to uphold the patent on Gleevec, the blockbuster cancer drug developed by the Swiss pharmaceut…

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