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Month: November 2017

Public Policy

Florida Lawmakers to Review Law Targeting Injured Undocumented Workers

November 30, 2017

by Howard Berkes, NPR, and Michael Grabell, ProPublica Aug. 24, 8 a.m. EDT Citing an NPR and ProPublica investigation, a top Florida lawmaker and a national insurance fraud group criticized …

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Leadership

If Beazley had become prime minister instead of Rudd, might we have had more stable government?

November 27, 2017

Paul Strangio, Monash University Kevin Rudd was swept into office at the 2007 federal election. AAP/Tony Phillips A decade ago this month, Australian voters unceremoniously ended John Howard’s prime ministership …

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Reasonable Expectation of Privacy: An Evaluation of Privacy Law Frameworks in the Digital Age

November 27, 2017November 27, 2017

By Lesley Kelley, Policy Group Intern, Goeman Bind HTO The author, Lesley Kelley, is currently a candidate for a Masters of Public Policy at Georgia State University, Andrew Young School …

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Social

How to report on foreign aid for science

November 24, 2017

By Carl-Gustav Lindén   Carl-Gustav Lindén explains how to see beyond the dollar signs and report on what aid for science is achieving. Much of the work of journalists covering …

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FEMA Had a Plan for Responding to a Hurricane in Puerto Rico — But It Doesn’t Want You to See It

November 22, 2017November 24, 2017

By Justin Elliott and Decca Muldowney The Federal Emergency Management Agency, citing unspecified “potentially sensitive information,” is declining to release a document it drafted several years ago that details how …

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Leadership

Robert Mugabe as WHO goodwill ambassador – what went wrong?

November 16, 2017November 16, 2017

Luke Allen, University of Oxford A calamitous endorsement. Jason Szenes/EPA-EFE, CC BY-SA At an international conference on non-communicable diseases, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organisation director general, recently named …

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Leadership

Q&A: A force behind new dynamics in South African science

November 13, 2017November 13, 2017

By Lisbeth Fog Naledi Pandor has served as South Africa’s science and technology minister since 2009. During her term, she chose to focus her efforts on two fronts: on being …

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California’s Drought Is Part of a Much Bigger Water Crisis. Here’s What You Need to Know

November 9, 2017November 24, 2017

by Amanda Zamora, Abrahm Lustgarten and Lauren Kirchner June 25, 2015, 12:30 p.m. EDT Why do I keep hearing about the California drought, if it’s the Colorado River that we’re “killing”? Pretty much every …

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Community

What evolutionary theory can teach us about the appearance of aliens

November 6, 2017

Samuel Levin, University of Oxford Andrii Vodolazhskyi/Shutterstock Aliens could be everywhere. There are at least 100 billion planets in our galaxy alone, and at least 20% of them could be …

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Community / Leadership / Thought

Rajiv Gandhi: Man who revolutionized India technologically

November 2, 2017November 2, 2017

By G. L. Batra, ST Guest Columnist, Writer & formerly Addl. Secretary, Indian Parliament and Chairman, Public Service Commission of the Indian State of Haryana Rajiv Gandhi was born on …

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