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... friends in Zone 9. • We are far from reaching that goal, but some important steps are being taken in the right direction. Legal reform efforts to curb government surveillance powers in the United States are making headway. Initiatives are being built to hold tech companies to basic human rights...

...Lam Thuy Vo Afghanistan is an increasingly dangerous war zone, but, according to journalist Lam Thuy Vo, Germany hasn't exactly laid out the welcome mat for Afghan refugees. While Germany approved 96 percent of asylum applications for Syrians in 2015, Afghan asylum-seekers have less than a 50-50...

...Thomas Graham; Rajan Menon; Jack Snyder A buffer zone can separate great powers, but this arrangement only works if the competing states-and the buffer itself-agree on the terms. Ukraine's domestic turmoil and relations with Russia, the U.S., and Europe may not make it an ideal candidate...

...Skye Wheeler Support for victims of sexual violence is underfunded nearly everywhere, but the need for these mental health services is particularly acute in conflict and post-conflict zones. Skye Wheeler , a women’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, examines the uphill battle to provide care...

... emy trains cadets not only to carry out their pal police, and three years later was named job but to extort as well, the street is the zone commander, thanks to a friend who true school of police life. It is there that the was a municipal official. But that very year cadet puts into practice...

... an airlock by a French astronaut). The beatnik satellite would broadcast feel-good voice and text messages containing the word “beat” over amateur two-meter radio frequencies. But in its attempt to clear the world of the invisible web of time zones, Swatch fell afoul of another invisible but highly regulated...

... a huge difference during the energy crises after 3/11. The government mandated a 15 percent drop in energy demand for many larger energy users. Households had their own, mostly voluntary targets, even in zones that were not in crisis. The entire nation seemed to get on board. Lights were turned off...

... arrived at the ocean we know today. One consequence of global warming will be to turn off the icy brine pumps. If the deep ocean again becomes an oxygen-deprived zone, we may wind up with more ocean oxygen in the atmosphere. But, there will be a great deal fewer fish and octopuses to eat. eventually...

... compound, killing three U.N. staffers and four security guards. The tragic incident was a reminder of how contemporary conflicts are increasingly shaped by a blurring of lines. A bigot on the fringes of American life becomes a player in a war zone on the other side of the world. Angry civilians become...

... Chinas”—one decades. These developments, broadly con­ consisting of ever more densely populated sidered here, are: the changing demograph­ urban zones, the other of underdeveloped ics of cities, particularly in what we call and undergoverned hinterlands. the Lagos-Cairo-Karachi-Jakarta arc...

... to the lessons that other cities can learn from Dharavi and demonstrate how “family and community networks can be the foundations” of an urban area. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 India Mumbai Dharavi urban studies development housing zoning COURTESY OF RAHUL SRIVASTAVA/URBZ...

... lands. Following the creation of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent nakba (the mass Palestinian exodus that took place that same year), 13,000 Arab Bedouin in the Naqab were confined in a militarized zone (called sayeg in Hebrew or siyaj in Arabic), separated from both Jewish and other Arab...

... the 1960s and 1970s, Co­ Estimates of how much money the FARC lombia’s guerrilla wars were low-intensity af­ raises from taxing drug production and fairs. None of the half-dozen guerrilla groups commerce in its zones of control vary enor­ (which operated independently) could seri­ mously, from a low...

... as military installations would be. Health workers not only here, but also in war zones as diverse as Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, and Pakistan are frequently threatened or killed. The reasons can range—often with motives that are somewhat opaque—from classic conflicts to inter-tribal...

... to join in the foreseeable future. The member states have a joint GDP of $166.6 billion, or per capita annual income of barely $1,129, compared with $34,751 in the Euro zone. At the time the Euro zone was created, in 1998, European leaders agreed that the CFA arrangement, through the French treasury...

... species. He emphasizes that the dredging of the lake required to accommodate large container ships would render it a “dead zone.” With a shallow average depth of only 40 feet, the project would require the dredged removal of more than 60 miles of lakebed sediment that contains heavy metals, pesticides...

... Cesar Pics Brussels—High unemployment, bleak economic outlook, high public and private debts, dysfunctional banks, weak competitiveness, and an unfavorable external environment are just a few of the challenges facing southern members of the euro zone. Despite these hurdles, the ever-optimistic...

... widely in transactions, resulting in a net increase in use of coined money. The reliance of tradesmen on particular currencies led to the emergence of circulatory zones, where only specific currencies circulated. The Indian rupee, which relied on the steady supply of silver from the New World via...

... centers to India. If you are five key factors, including an abundance of lucky enough to get a seat, you will find skilled labor and a significant time-zone ad­ yourself surrounded by private equity pro­ vantage. Third, the success of several sectors fessionals, venture capitalists, and invest­...

... of Faluja, Rama- di, and Samarra, and the sacred cities of Karbala and Najaf. In Baghdad, Americans inhab­ iting the fortress-like Green Zone could venture only at their peril into the densely popu­ lated eastern neighborhood known as Sadr City. Consider the symbolic import of the Green Zone...