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The Great Recession has shattered New York City’s financial district, which is projected to lose 46,000 jobs and up to $70 billion by 2010. But how have the world’s other Wall Streets fared?

Low birthrates aren't the result of economic growth and political stability; they're a prerequisite.

From healing the sick to infecting the healthy to fomenting conflict, there doesn't seem to be much that water can't do. Test your knowledge with eight questions on humanity's favorite liquid.

Today's failed study could lead to tomorrow's smart policy—if we let it.

Break out your mulching fork: Jeffersonian farmers are back!

Obama's foreign policy makes him the surprising heir to a certain Austrian prince.

What do Ayatollah Khomeini, Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, and Deng Xiaoping all have in common?

Manly men have been running the world forever. But the Great Recession is changing all that, and it will alter the course of history.