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Diplomacy

Shut Out: Embassies Paying Price
For Tighter Banking Regulations

Once the darlings of the banking industry, some embassies are being kicked to the curb by banks reluctant to incur the growing costs of cross-border transactions. Read More


International Affairs

For New Envoy, Miners’ Rescue
Showed Sky’s the Limit for Chile

It wasn’t just the 33 miners who emerged from their underground prison in October to the world’s delight — Ambassador Arturo Fermandois says his own country’s rise from the dark days of dictatorship shows that the sky’s the limit for Chile. Read More


International Affairs

Will Peak Oil Squeeze
World’s Energy Spigot?

Oil doesn’t just fuel most of our cars — it’s the key driver of modern life as we know it. But many experts are now asking: What if we were forced to imagine life without it? Read More

Also See: Top Alternatives

Medical

Keep Mom Alive: Maternal Mortality
In U.S. Worse Than in Many Nations

Where do you think you’d have a better chance of surviving childbirth — in the United States or Bosnia? The answer for American moms, sadly, is not as obvious as you’d think. Read More



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January 2011 Special Section

•D.C. Public Schools Bloom With Green Rejuvenation

• Fulbright Exchange Program: As Relavant as Ever



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January 2011 Special Section

•What Makes Running a Hotel in Washington Unique?

• Plenty of Powder on Nearby Slopes This Season
• Dead Sea Springs to Life with Modern-Day Tourists

 

People of World Influence

Journalist Consistently Sheds Light
On Shifting Global Landscape

By Michael Coleman

In an American media landscape that often feels devoid of substantial foreign policy coverage, one name — Fareed Zakaria — fills that void. Read More


Diplomacy

WikiLeaks Scandal Blows Hole
In U.S. Diplomacy Worldwide

by Larry Luxner

By exposing a mountain of secret cables not meant for public consumption, WikiLeaks has sparked an avalanche of questions about American diplomacy and if it can emerge from the rubble unscathed. Read More


Culture Art and Entertainment


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Detail of The Mother Goddess, one of the 200 artifacts on view in the "Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilizations" exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History.


History

Busy ‘Crossroads’

“Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilizations” spans 11,000 years of history on this Mediterranean melting pot of European, Asian and African cultures. Read More


Diplomatic Spouses

Russian Outreach

Cultivating Relationships Through Culture Read More


More Culture Stories:

- Two Exhibits Like Night, Day at Freer, Sackler

- Wüstenroth Winners Capture Post-Socialist Changes

DINING: Food, Wine & Company Has All the Basic Ingredients


International Cinema:

REVIEWS: ‘Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale’ | 'The King’s Speech' | ‘Bhutto’

FILM AWARDS: List of the films that won over Washington critics

Cinema Listings | Repertory Notes | Theater Info


International Events:

Events Listings | Location Info




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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