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To reduce debt, give students more information to make wise college choice decisions

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imageHow can you make smart choices?Dollar image via www.shutterstock.com

Higher education has gotten a lot of attention during the early stages of the 2016 presidential campaign. All three major candidates for the Democratic nomination – former New York Senator Hillary Clinton, former Maryland Governor Martin...

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Researchers carefully protect dangerous pathogens – but how secure are all their data?

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imageThe pathogens are secured, but are the data about them as well-protected?Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters

Ebola, smallpox, anthrax and many others: the most dangerous microorganisms are strictly regulated in the United States. The federal government oversees use of 65 so-called select agents with “the potential to pose a...

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Jimmy Carter in Cuba

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imageJimmy and Rosalynn Carter with Fidel Castro in 2011. Picture taken March 30 2011. Cubadebate/Reuters

Thirty-eight years ago, Jimmy Carter and Fidel Castro agreed to open downgraded embassies called Interest Sections in Havana and Washington DC. Carter’s intent was to normalize relations between the two countries...

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Can jazz thrive in China?

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imageA drummer performs at the Beijing International Jazz Festival.Reuters

Earlier this summer, the famed New York City jazz club Blue Note announced that it would be opening a venue in the basement of the old American Embassy in Beijing.

In addition to the Beijing club, Blue Note expects to push ahead with new operations in...

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Menstruation is a global health problem – and we need to talk about it

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imageBreak the taboo.SuSanA Secretariat/Flickr, CC BY

Donald Trump did the girls and women living in developing world a great favor this week. He got menstruation – the taboo of all taboo words in polite society – onto the front page of the Sunday New York Times. That doesn’t happen every day. In fact,...

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US shouldn't fret over cheaper yuan: China's growing middle class will keep buying 'Made in America'

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imageA change in the scales isn't likely to put a major dent in the growth in US exports to China.Yuan dollar via www.shutterstock.com

News that the People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank, changed its formula for calculating the reference rate of the yuan (RMB) prompted the currency to fall to a four-year...

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Better policies are needed to support local adoptions for children orphaned by Ebola

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imageBetter policies could do a lot to help children orphaned by Ebola.UNICEF Guinea, CC BY-NC

While the worst of the Ebola epidemic has passed, its impact is far from over for the orphans left behind. In Sierra Leone alone, a country of just over six million people, the Ebola epidemic has orphaned more than 12,000 children who...

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