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         <title>The Arab Tomorrow</title>
         <description>The Arab world today is ruled by contradiction. Turmoil and stagnation prevail, as colossal wealth and hypermodern cities collide with mass illiteracy and rage-filled imams. In this new diversity may lie disaster, or the makings of a better Arab future.
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         <author>David B. Ottaway</author>
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         <title>Saint Cesar of Delano</title>
         <description>As the leader of the farm workers' movement, Cesar Chavez became an iconic figure of the 1960s. But his union was largely a failure. It was as a martyr who embodied the psychic contrast between Mexico and America that he commanded our attention.
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         <author>Richard  Rodriguez</author>
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         <title>Planet Pakistan</title>
         <description>In Pakistan, people see Al Qaeda as an imagined threat, and shadowy U.S. agents as the secret power behind major events. How can the United States forge a better partnership with this country that has become the epicenter of global terrorism?
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         <author>Robert M. Hathaway</author>
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         <title>Cracks in the Jihad</title>
         <description>Al Qaeda and the Taliban are at odds, and even Internet jihadis are taking fewer cues from Osama bin Laden. Yet it is only growing more difficult
to defeat the global jihad.</description>
         <link>http://www.Wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&amp;essay_id=587396</link>
         <author>Thomas  Rid</author>
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         <title>Before the Fall</title>
         <description>The fall of the Berlin Wall was a dramatic moment in time. In the minds of many East Germans, it was years in the making.
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         <link>http://www.Wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&amp;essay_id=554404</link>
         <author>Andrew  Curry</author>
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         <title>Three Tweets for the Web</title>
         <description>Welcome the new world with open arms—and browsers.
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         <author>Tyler  Cowen</author>
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         <title>Bullet Trains for America?</title>
         <description>The Obama administration has revived the dream of building high-speed rail lines to rival those of Japan and Europe, but the tracks are littered with political and financial obstacles.
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         <link>http://www.Wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&amp;essay_id=554055</link>
         <author>Mark  Reutter</author>
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         <title>Rediscovering Central Asia</title>
         <description>To imagine Central Asia's future, we must journey into its remarkable past.
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         <author>S. Frederick Starr</author>
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         <title>Saving Yourself</title>
         <description>America's enduring love affair with big spending is fetching up against some unromantic realities. But a lifelong saver assures us that there are worse fates than socking it away for a rainy day.
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         <author>Daniel  Akst</author>
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         <title>What Makes Mr. Zhang Save?</title>
         <description>Why are the Chinese such legendary savers? The answers shed light on why that habit is about to change.</description>
         <link>http://www.Wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&amp;essay_id=541634</link>
         <author>Michael  Pettis</author>
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         <title>The World's New Numbers</title>
         <description>“Here lies Europe, overwhelmed by Muslim immigrants and emptied of native-born Europeans,” goes the standard pundit line, but neither the immigrants nor the Europeans are playing their assigned roles.
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         <author>Martin  Walker</author>
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         <title>Can America Fail?</title>
         <description>A sympathetic critic issues a wake-up call for an America mired in groupthink and blind to its own shortcomings.</description>
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         <author>Kishore  Mahbubani</author>
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         <title>A Fighting Chance</title>
         <description>As Mexico steps up its war against the brutal cartels that supply the United States' drug habit, leaders on both sides of the border face tough questions about how to combat a problem that threatens the very fabric of Mexico's democracy.
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         <author>Alfredo  Corchado</author>
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         <title>McCulture</title>
         <description>Americans have developed an admirable fondness for books, food, and music that preprocess other cultures. But for all our enthusiasm, have we lost our taste for the truly foreign?
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         <author>Aviya  Kushner</author>
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         <title>The Traffic Guru</title>
         <description>An unassuming Dutch traffic engineer showed that streets without signs can be safer than roads cluttered with arrows, painted lines, and lights. Are we ready to believe him?
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         <author>Tom  Vanderbilt</author>
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         <title>The Right Bite</title>
         <description>There are five maxims the federal government can follow to regain the public confidence it has lost over the past four decades.</description>
         <link>http://www.Wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&amp;essay_id=509996</link>
         <author>William A. Galston</author>
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         <title>The Expeditionary Imperative</title>
         <description>America's national security structure is designed to confront the challenges of the last century rather than our own.
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         <author>John A. Nagl</author>
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         <title>The Secret Is the System</title>
         <description>The United States has settled for a patchwork approach to infrastructure. To stay ahead in the global economy, it needs to build adaptable networks like the 1956 Interstate Highway System.
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         <link>http://www.Wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&amp;essay_id=497294</link>
         <author>Bruce  Seely</author>
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         <title>Get Smart</title>
         <description>Pouring more concrete will not by itself answer our
infrastructure prayers. Look instead to the transformative power of information technology.
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         <link>http://www.Wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&amp;essay_id=497267</link>
         <author>Joel  Garreau</author>
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         <title>Built to Last</title>
         <description>When our roads and bridges crumble and collapse, we have one kind of problem. When they don't, we have another.
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         <author>Alan  Weisman</author>
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         <title>Call It Slavery</title>
         <description>The abolition of slavery was the great cause of 19th-century humanitarians. In the 21st century, argues a former U.S. ambassador at large on modern day slavery, it needs new champions.
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         <author>John R. Miller</author>
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         <title>A History of the Past:'Life Reeked With Joy'</title>
         <description>Possibly as an act of vengeance, a history professor--compiling, verbatim, several decades' worth of freshman papers--offers some of his students' more striking insights into European history from the Middle Ages to the present.</description>
         <link>http://www.Wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&amp;essay_id=454174</link>
         <author>Anders  Henriksson</author>
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         <title>Land of the Rising Fun</title>
         <description>Japan now shows itself to the world as a country of 'pink-clad girls, animated fantasies, and winking Kitty logos,' writes University of Hawaii anthropologist Christine R. Yano.</description>
         <link>http://www.Wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&amp;essay_id=593931</link>
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         <title>Lincoln's Rabble-Rousers</title>
         <description>The Wide Awakes, the political group that helped elect Abraham Lincoln, had a larger role in bringing about the Civil War than historians give them credit for.</description>
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         <title>O Nunavut!</title>
         <description>Nunavut has been Canada's northernmost territory for 10 years, but is struggling to bring down sky-high levels of suicide, poverty, and illiteracy.</description>
         <link>http://www.Wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&amp;essay_id=593932</link>
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         <title>The Wrong Fix for Foreclosures</title>
         <description>A new study shows that rewriting the terms of mortgages nearing foreclosure would be bad business for banks.</description>
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         <title>Can a Free Press Hurt?</title>
         <description>One USC political scientist argues that in countries with autocratic regimes, a free press may actually incite an increase in human rights abuses.</description>
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         <title>The Politics of Complexity</title>
         <description>Creating more diverse congressional districts doesn't lead to more competition in elections.</description>
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         <title>Writing on the Brain</title>
         <description>The current obsession with neuroscience is now the stuff of fiction, but that's not necessarily great news for literature.</description>
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         <title>Transparency Traps</title>
         <description>Without transparency in government, it's impossible to discern the corrupting effects of money on a legislator's decisions, but with transparency it's too easy to see impropriety everywhere.</description>
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         <title>No Method for Madness</title>
         <description>The average clinical psychologist's practice today doesn't look much different than it did 60 years ago, but the patients keep coming.</description>
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         <title>Oil for Containment</title>
         <description>A key component of the Marshall Plan shifted Europe from coal to oil, and made Europeans dependent on Middle East oil.</description>
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         <title>The Graduate Fixer</title>
         <description>India has more university graduates than jobs to give them, and the problem is especially acute among the lower-middle-class farming caste.</description>
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         <title>Europe's Envelope Economy</title>
         <description>As the EU welcomes more Eastern and Central European countries into the fold, they are dealing with a reality of the Soviet period, the pervasiveness of the underground economy.</description>
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         <title>Finding Happiness After Harvard</title>
         <description>A long-time study of a group of Harvard men provides some clues to happiness.</description>
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         <title>War and Warming</title>
         <description>Around the world, security experts are starting to cast worried eyes on climate change as a possible source of future conflict.</description>
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         <title>L. Paul Bremer, Scapegoat</title>
         <description>The administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq made many mistakes, but he does not deserve all the condemnation he has received.</description>
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         <title>Damned Either Way</title>
         <description>Elected officials cannot win when they have to choose between bad alternatives.</description>
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         <title>Immigrating to Obesity</title>
         <description>Immigrants to America help the national obesity numbers, at least for awhile.</description>
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         <title>The Cult of Experts</title>
         <description>Experts may have a vital role to play in a democratic society, but, Wilfred McClay writes, 'we need to cultivate a judge's skill in evaluating them.'</description>
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         <title>Three Flags</title>
         <description>A retired air force colonel reflects on the true meaning of the American flag.</description>
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         <title>Stop Scribbling!</title>
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         <title>Cheek Swabs for Hamlet</title>
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         <title>Hamiltonian Exuberance</title>
         <description>Alexander Hamilton wrote the playbook on steering the country out of financial panic.</description>
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         <title>Blind-Sided</title>
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         <title>Jews in America</title>
         <description>Amy E. Schwartz on American Judaism.</description>
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         <title>Norway's Black Sheep</title>
         <description>Michael McDonald on Norway's controversial writer, Knut Hamsun.</description>
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         <title>Song of Myself, Sung Again and Again</title>
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         <title>Tame Rebellion</title>
         <description>Michael Anderson on the 1950s.</description>
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         <title>Card Studs</title>
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         <title>The Good and the Bad in the Ugly</title>
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         <title>Three Weddings and a War</title>
         <description>Martha Saxton on three Civil War wives.</description>
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         <title>Girth of a Nation</title>
         <description>Lynne Lamberg on the evolution of obesity.</description>
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         <title>Remember the Titan</title>
         <description>Benjamin Wittes on Louis D. Brandeis.</description>
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         <title>Arts and Sciences</title>
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         <title>The Middle-Class Ghetto</title>
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         <title>How Sofas Changed the World</title>
         <description>Winifred Gallagher on the age of comfort.</description>
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         <author>Winifred  Gallagher</author>
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         <title>The Winning Forrmula</title>
         <description>Thomas Rid on counterinsurgencies.</description>
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         <title>Ready for Her Close-Up</title>
         <description>Nick Gillespie on Ayn Rand.</description>
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         <title>America's Namesake</title>
         <description>Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the map that named America.</description>
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         <author>Felipe  Fernández-Armesto</author>
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         <title>The City's Limits</title>
         <description>Catherine Tumber on green cities.</description>
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         <author>Catherine  Tumber</author>
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         <title>Living on the Edge</title>
         <description>Tom Vanderbilt on America's changing demographics.</description>
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         <author>Tom  Vanderbilt</author>
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         <title>Quiet Desperation</title>
         <description>Andrei Lankov on life in North Korea.</description>
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         <author>Andrei  Lankov</author>
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         <title>A Revolutionary Woman</title>
         <description>Frank Shuffelton on Abigail Adams.</description>
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         <author>Frank  Shuffelton</author>
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         <title>Monochrome Life</title>
         <description>Darryl Lorenzo Wellington on white America.</description>
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