Most Popular

Top Chinese Varsities Take After US Colleges

March 11, 2003
Through international conferences, journals, and the internet, educational theories and models are extremely mobile. Although most of China’s universities and colleges still require high school applicants to list their three most preferred schools and a corresponding major, 3 prestigious...

Vive La Vélorution

November 13, 2007
Confronting astronomical gas costs and clogged city arteries, urban residents find a new way to get around. In exchange for little to no fee, they can temporarily rent a bicycle from stations scattered throughout the city and leave them at the destination. The system is wildly popular: For the...

Russia Must Not Slip into Autocracy

September 24, 2003
Russia is officially a democratic country, but recent political shifts have made it seem otherwise. Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged to crack down on corruption, but the latest prosecution efforts have been tainted with corruption themselves. Freedom of the press is largely...

Kenya's Water Troubles More Than Just Leaky Pipes

March 28, 2007
Water is a limited resource – and cities in short supply are not acting quickly enough to conserve supplies and prepare for the future. Nairobi, the name of which refers to “place of cool waters,” is one example. Currently, water supply meets only about 70 percent of demand, and yet the government...

Iraq’s Refugee Crisis

May 7, 2007
The US and its coalition partners invaded Iraq, but have failed to provide for the 2 million Iraqis displaced since the start of the war. Nearly 15 percent of Iraq’s 26.8 million people have been displaced, with most moving to other parts of their war-torn nation or neighboring Jordan and Syria,...

Managing Globalization

September 21, 2007
The global impact of the US subprime mortgage crisis prompts some commentators to question if globalization is a stabilizing or destabilizing force on world markets. Increased interconnectedness has certainly improved the flow of money and credit, contributing to the creation of great wealth, but...

China "to Overtake US on Science" in Two Years

April 6, 2011
With a growing economy and rising surplus, China has invested heavily in education and R&D. "Chinese spending has grown by 20% per year since 1999, now reaching over $100bn, and as many as 1.5 million science and engineering students graduated from Chinese universities in 2006,"...

Cold War Offered Odd Benefit – It Limited Species Invasions

January 11, 2010
For supporters of globalization, isolationism is usually thought to have negative consequences. But for Eastern Europe, cut off during the Cold War, such isolation had a positive impact on preventing environmental damage that can occur from the influx of invasive species – birds, in this case. A...
More..