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DEC 1, 2005 • Podcast
Corporate Warriors: The Privatized Military and Iraq
P. W. Singer examines the Pentagon's policy of contracting private security and logistics firms for tasks ranging from combat to catering in the Iraq War. ...
NOV 29, 2005 • Podcast
Rx for Survival: Why We Must Rise to the Global Health Challenge
Hilts warns that the emergence of new diseases and the resurgence of old ones has put the world on the brink of a global health ...
NOV 21, 2005 • Podcast
German Immigration Issues
Germany's Federal Minister of the Interior Otto Schily addresses the problems of integrating immigrants into German society and talks about the progress made, which includes ...
NOV 9, 2005 • Podcast
ILLICIT: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy
Moises Naim explains that the counterfeit trade is worth 630 billion dollars a year, including fake airplane parts, medicines and even gas stations, and growth in ...
NOV 3, 2005 • Article
Morgenthau Lectures (1981–2006): The $100 Laptop: The Next Two Billion People to Go Digital
Negroponte's latest venture, One Laptop per Child, is a non-profit organization that manufactures and distributes inexpensive laptops to children worldwide.