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Bead for Life Participant: Don't Keep Your Money, Invest It
Watch Video A co-founder of Bead for Life and its participants talk about the business training program. In 2009, the PBS NewsHour profiled a group, Bead for Life, that trained Ugandan women to start businesses by rolling beads made of recycled...
Lawmakers Debate Leaks As National Security Whistleblower Reveals His Identity
Edward Snowden speaks during an interview in Hong Kong. Photo by The Guardian via Getty Images "I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong." That statement came from Edward Snowden in an interview published...
Can Tenuous Peace Among Lebanon's Religious Sects Survive Stress of Syria's War?
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Shields and Brooks on NSA Big Data Discovery, Christie's Election Maneuver
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Daughter's Search for Her Dissident Father Inspires Fictional Retelling
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Obama Defends NSA's Surveillance of Phone, Web and Credit Card Use
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