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...malaria control, however, cannot be accomplished by money alone. Successfully combating the injustice of malaria requires cooperation across the lines that divide society—lines like religion, ethnicity, socio-economic status, and gender. In countries across Africa, groups are recognizing this need to work with one another in order to make real progress on eradicating the disease. In Mozambique, Together Against Malaria brings Christian and Muslim leaders together to utilize religious infrastructure to improve access to malaria prevention measures. In Nigeria the same is being done by the Nigerian Inter-faith Action Association, which will help distribute 60 million...
Abroad, populations are working together despite differences in order to improve the world around them, but here in the United States we often forget the value of cooperation. As Martin Luther King Jr. understood, it takes collaboration across the lines that continue to divide us to effectively address the major problems facing the world...
...Sometimes that's true. But a lot of the time, people are just flying blind. John List, an economist at the University of Chicago, has noticed the disconnect in his own education experiments. He explains the problem to me this way: "I could ask you to solve a third-order linear partial differential equation," he says. "A what?" I ask. "A third-order linear partial differential equation," he says. "I could offer you a million dollars to solve it. And you can't do it." (He's right. I can't.) For some kids, doing better on a geometry test...
...Passive-Voice Era It's probably not a surprise that China is a bit ambivalent about the Western world order. Its association with it, after all, began violently: the shock of the Opium Wars 170 years ago, a collision that led to what the Chinese think of as a century of humiliation during which nine foreign nations tromped through the country. Americans often ask why Chinese care so much about sovereignty. To which Chinese say, Come back and ask after you've been invaded by nine countries. (See "Could Obama Get Around China's 'Great Firewall...
...before you need fight them. In terms of military strategy, this means that China will attempt to neutralize foreign technological advantage instead of matching it, attacking computers and satellites instead of ships and planes. And in terms of economics, it will mean using China's strengths to create an order that fits its needs rather than trying to dominate the order that stands now. (See pictures of President Obama visiting Asia...