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List of Sidebar articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Geopolitics of Sexual Frustration
Asia has too many boys. They can't find wives, but they just might find extreme nationalism instead. It's a dangerous imbalance for a region already on edge.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What’s Next in the Sino-Viral War?
Hundreds lost their lives when Beijing covered up its SARS outbreak. Now, as another pandemic looms, the world holds its breath to see how China will confront the threat.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Everywhere Man
Oil money and an expansive ideology mean that Chávez’s influence knows no bounds.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Saying “Global” in Chinese
How Beijing is making it easier for foreigners to learn its language.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Taxed to Death
Developing countries claim the West cheats them out of cheap drugs. But they are often the ones erecting barriers to their citizens' health.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Rx for Corruption
Around the world, stockpiles of drugs sit untouched in warehouses. Why do they remain just out of patients' reach? The answer is simple: bribery, graft, and fraud.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The World’s Most Popular TV Shows
After surveying 66 countries with 1.6 billion viewers between them—from Australia to Japan, Latvia to Venezuela—Eurodata TV Worldwide named the winners for the world's most-watched shows of 2008. What does the world love to watch?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What They’re Watching
Soaps, soaps, and more soaps. But not all of the dramas are created equal. In Colombia, viewers enjoy a hard-bitten saga of gang violence; in Iran, they're tuning into tales of Jewish rescue during World War II.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 No Will, No Way
Bueno de Mesquita's model projects a decline in global willingness to regulate greenhouse gases over the next 100 years and beyond.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Arms Around the World
What would the global flow of weapons look like without Viktor Bout? Dozens of traffickers wait in the wings.