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...When he was arrested in Belgrade in July 2008, he was living under an alias as a New Age healer and had grown a thick, long white beard to match his shock of white hair...
...joined in India's economic boom. While GDP grew on average 5.7% a year between the launch of India's market reforms in 1991 and 2004, agriculture slumped along at just 2.9%. Indian farming had also become miserably inefficient. Each hectare of cultivated land in India produces half that grown in Thailand. "The government thought that after liberalization, agriculture would grow automatically, that money would go from industry" to the farms, says Shreenivas Khandewale, director of the R.S. Ruikar Institute of Labor and Socio-Cultural Studies in Nagpur. "But it didn't come...
...journeying into some of the most segregated neighborhoods in the country. But Benjamin, a journalist with a Ph.D. in literature from Stanford, pulls off his quest with good cheer. He is invited into the homes and churches of what he calls "Whitopias": melanin-deficient exurbs and towns that have grown at least 6% since 2000, as whites have fled more ethnically diverse areas. "They are creating communal pods that cannily preserve a white-bread world," he observes, "a throwback to an imagined past with 'authentic' 1950s values." Like Sacha Baron Cohen, Benjamin can lull people into saying the most appalling...
...There’s a really active cycling community in Boston that has grown over the past years,” said Randy A. Stern, a festival attendee who is also an employee of the Harvard University Library. “This festival tends to attract the activists, but the event really engenders community [among all cyclists...
Yale opened a new cancer hospital and research center on Thursday—a blow to Harvard's ambitions, now that it has grown increasingly likely that Allston may not host a stem cell research center after...