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Notes on how Africa may come out of the financial crisis with stronger financial systems.

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Interesting, thorough Newsweek profile on the current state and future of epilepsy surgery.

Photos of “myster spotsy,” where “bizarre forces” obscure reality.

Death of Maxim blamed on an absence of any erotic charge and too much Photoshop.

Stunning photos of Saturn from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.

Anthropologist who says cooking made us human insists we’ll find proof of fires 1.8 million years ago, fear not.

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Excerpts from Steve Reich’s Double Sextet, winner of the Pulitzer.

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