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• Not-so-dangerous destinations
It's easy to avoid Pakistan's truly dangerous areas—the tumultuous tribal regions and the long western border with Afghanistan. For much of the '90s, Bosnia & Herzegovina in the Balkans was shorthand for the worst violence in Europe since World War ...
• Nobel Prize winner outlines plan for ending poverty
Poverty is not distributed evenly around the world; specific regions suffer its worst effects. In sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, hundreds of millions of poor people struggle for survival.
• Companies begin quest for oil, gas off Florida
At the same time, oil companies, driven by the record energy price, are more willing to risk $100 million or more to begin exploring new regions.
• U.S. cites 'rapid changes' in Arctic
Scientists have expected polar regions to feel the first impacts of global warming and the 2006 State of the Arctic report provided a benchmark for tracking changes. Red and yellow marks Wednesday's follow-up was the first update, marking the ...
• Why interns are good for business
TOMS Shoes, the company he launched in 2006 as a hybrid between a for- and a non-profit business, has since distributed more than 60,000 pairs of shoes to children in remote, poverty-stricken regions of Argentina and South Africa, while getting his ...