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  Leo Releases a Meteor Shower

  By Katherine Gustafson | Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:28 PM ET

  the action will occur at 4:45 pm EST, which means it won't be dark enough to rock your star-gazing binoculars.That means, however, that if you're in Asia, you had the chance to see the peak of the show in the early morning today before sunrise. Too bad this article wasn't posted in time to let yo Read More

  More like this in: Europe, National Geographic, Meteor Showers, World, Science, Americas, Europe, Space, Physical Sciences
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  Shooting for Social Change

  By Katherine Gustafson | Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:46 AM ET

  life. One day, shooting a documentary in a village with a team of women filmmakers from the slums and a crew of English-speaking white men from the Asian Development Bank, she was struck with what a difficult time these outsiders had in getting their interview subjects — impoverished rura Read More

  More like this in: Education, India, YouTube, Television, Film, mtv, Entrepreneurship, Cameras, Domestic Violence, Third World and Developing Countries, Social entrepreneurship
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  Announcing the Global Center for Women's Land Rights

  By Katherine Gustafson | Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:12 AM ET

  Clinton Global Initiative, "consider the daily life of the world’s typical small farmer ... she lives in a rural village in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, or Latin America."Despite women's ubiquity in our world's farming systems, their contribution is rarely recognized, and they only own 2 percen Read More

  More like this in: Clinton Global Initiative, Africa, India, China, Poverty, United Nations, Agriculture, Farming, Women, Sub-Saharan Africa, Farmers
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  Birds and the Bees Do It. (And Fiddler Crabs. And Fruit Bats.)

  By David Bois | Thu Nov 5, 2009 11:15 AM ET

  to be some animal kingdom equivalent to a nice dinner and a movie involved in any of this. First up: A variety of fruit bat native to Southeast Asia has been documented to incorporate the act of fellatio into mating behavior. As New Scientist reports, the arrangement for the act involves th Read More

  More like this in: ABC, China, Sex, Australia, New Scientist, Science, Life & Style, Environment, Innovation & Discovery, Life Sciences, Animals & Pets, Relationships
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  Farmers turned Environmentalist in Vietnam

  By Kendall Hunter | Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:47 PM ET

  monthly income and can now afford to buy clothes for his six children as well as fertilizer for his own crops. The first of its kind in Southeast Asia, the project seems to be one of those common sense win/win scenarios that's sets a great example for how people can work together for economi Read More

  More like this in: Coffee, Farming, Trees, Vietnam, Fertilizer, Southeast Asia, Hydroelectric, Floods, Logging
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  Literature for Peace

  By Kendall Hunter | Sat Oct 31, 2009 10:04 AM ET

  special lifetime achievement award will be presented to Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn in recognition of their work chronicling human rights in Asia, Africa, and the developing world.Across the pond, for the past 50 years an annual award for peace has been handed out at the German Boo Read More

  More like this in: Europe, Africa, Germany, Peace, Ohio, Religion, Sheryl Wudunn
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  Seeing Singapore Through the Smoke

  By Annie Scott | Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:40 AM ET

  the Swissotel if you want to see the real Singapore. There's also an incredible Night Safari, unmatched orchid gardens and more.As your other usual Asian destinations like Tokyo and Beijing helplessly begin to look more and more like New York City, Paris, London, even Dubai, Singapore is on Read More

  More like this in: New York City, London, Sex, Shopping, Paris, tourism, Singapore, Beijing, Black Eyed Peas, Indonesia, Southeast Asia
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  Global Seed Bank Goes Bananas

  By David Bois | Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:00 PM ET

  insurance strategy, is a good sensible way of keeping your options open for the future."  Photo courtesy of Adrian Pingstone, via Wikimedia Common Read More

  More like this in: Climate change, England, Agriculture, biodiversity, Science, Europe, Environment, Innovation & Discovery, Life Sciences
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  Fish Pedicures No More?

  By Jac Chebatoris | Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:15 PM ET

  in which a bunch of tiny fish basically nibble away at the dead skin on your feet could be banned in New York State. The practice, originating in Asia, made its way to the United States about a year ago via a salon owner in Alexandria, Virginia who discovered the treatment during a trip t Read More

  More like this in: China, Beauty, Life & Style, Fashion, Health & Fitness
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  The Evolution of the Peace Sign

  By Kirk Bromley | Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:00 AM ET

  one ethnicity has taken the peace sign to whole new levels through innovative vertical, horizontal, and trapezoidal contortions. They are the East Asians. And if my saying that, as a white guy, seems somewhat suspect, don't take my white guy word for it. Just check out the East Asians in th Read More

  More like this in: Peace, Vietnam, Hippies, Winston Churchill, Life & Style, Culture