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“So now what? You all have graduated and will now flood the capital instead of going back to where you came from?!” Capital overload I had just finished my undergraduate school in Blagoevgrad, a southern Bulgarian town, and was having dinner with professors and alumni in Sofia. The above remark came from […]

The African Union declared the Lord’s Resistance Army a terrorist group in November 2011 and in late March 2012, the African Union dispatched 5000 troops from Uganda, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Central African Republic to pursue LRA rebels. These troops will be added to the 100 […]

Some people want to live forever, and they are actively working to accomplish just that. These people view aging as a curable disease, and they are supporting and conducting research to cure it. I don’t share this goal, but I do agree that if they succeed, society could be dramatically […]

With the parliamentary elections in Mongolia approaching next month, there will be more women’s nominations as woman’s quotas for political participation have now been approved by the parliament. Eleven parties are registered to run in the June 2012 elections, and each party will have to try and reach a target of 20% women […]

Tagline: Market based mechanisms at work in Pakistan despite its subscribing to the Kyoto Protocol I see the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the same market-based mechanism which is being followed in Pakistan. Non-control of industries and their functions leads to environmental hazards like the disaster in the […]