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  • A farmer in China inspects his rice
    Developing Countries

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    Reaching the 80 Percent: Q&A with Krishna Kumar

    Jun 15, 2015

    Krishna Kumar discusses studying agriculture in China, low-income housing in India, and labor markets in Bangladesh, and how research can help the developing world.

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  • TSA Acting Administrator Melvin Carraway meets with TSA officers at New Orleans International Airport the day after a man attacked security agents and later died in the hospital where he was being treated for gunshot wounds
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    TSA Flunked Its Security Test Big Time — Now What?

    Brian Michael Jenkins @BrianMJenkins

    Jun 15, 2015

    The Hill

    We have to accept that humans, no matter how well-trained they are or how dedicated they are to their mission, are just not very good at maintaining laser-like focus while performing repetitive tasks. That does not mean airport security can ever be completely given over to machines.

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  • Demonstrators hold signs showing the number of people they say could lose affordable health care in King v. Burwell, in front of the Supreme Court building, March 4, 2015
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    What Americans Know About King v. Burwell

    Katherine Grace Carman @KGCarman, Christine Eibner @Chrissyeibner

    Jun 12, 2015

    The RAND Blog

    An upcoming Supreme Court ruling regarding the Affordable Care Act could impact millions of Americans. Are Americans aware of the court case? And if so, what do they know about it?

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  • A private security contractor and soldiers look at a destroyed vehicle after an attack near Najaf, Iraq, May 18, 2006
    Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

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    Military Security Contractors Get PTSD, Too

    Molly Dunigan, Carrie M. Farmer @carriefarmer

    Jun 12, 2015

    USA Today

    Largely absent from the conversation about the use of military security contractors are the parallel issues of mental health and the deployment-related stress contractors can face.

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  • An Afghan border policeman escorts a detained suspected Taliban fighter near Walli Was in Paktika province near the border with Pakistan November 5, 2012
    The Islamic State (Terrorist Organization)

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    Expanding the Caliphate

    Seth G. Jones

    Jun 12, 2015

    Foreign Affairs

    ISIS in South Asia, which it calls the Islamic State of Khorasan, is larger than most recognize, boasting between several hundred and several thousand fighters. But for now, it is closer to a loose affiliate than a direct arm of the organization.

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    Community Partners in Care Receives Accolade

    Jun 10, 2015

    Community Partners in Care, a partnership that uses a unique approach to improve depression care in under-resourced communities, has received the 2015 Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Award.

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  • Palestinian girls at their family's house in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, March 10, 2015
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    War or Peace? Putting a Price on the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse

    Charles P. Ries @charles_ries, C. Ross Anthony

    Jun 9, 2015

    Newsweek

    Today, more than 90 percent of Israelis and Palestinians were born after 1948 and have known nothing other than some version of the impasse. Both sides could be better off with a stable two-state solution. Prolonging the impasse for another generation would have real costs.

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    Social Media as a Tool for Reaching Veterans in Need of Mental Health Care

    Eric R. Pedersen @ericrpedersen

    Jun 9, 2015

    The RAND Blog

    Reaching veterans to learn more about their mental health care seeking poses a conundrum. They are typically recruited for studies in clinical settings, so those who are not seeking care are not represented. Facebook may be a viable method to reach them.

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    Why the United States Needs an Active Denial Strategy for Asia

    Eric Heginbotham, Jacob L. Heim

    Jun 8, 2015

    The RAND Blog

    The evolving balance of power will require adjustments to U.S. strategy. Making those adjustments will help ensure that the U.S.-China relationship, now merely tense, doesn't escalate to hostile.

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    G7 Leaders to Discuss Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance

    Marco Hafner, Jirka Taylor

    Jun 8, 2015

    The RAND Blog

    The threat of drug resistance can be tackled with the right set of actions, including the development of new antimicrobial drugs and alternative therapies to disrupt the rise in resistance. German Chancellor Merkel has emphasized the importance of a joint global action plan for addressing this growing problem.

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  • The Three Soldiers statue, Washington, DC
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    Book Review: 'Uphill Battle' by Frank Scotton

    James T. Quinlivan

    Jun 5, 2015

    American Diplomacy

    This book provides a more sympathetic understanding of the Vietnam War at the working level when everything now known about it was still in the future.

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  • The Midnight Mission shelter on skid row before a Veterans Day observance for homeless veterans in Los Angeles, California, November 11, 2013
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    Veterans Battle Mental Health Issues After Iraq and Afghanistan

    Terri Tanielian, Rajeev Ramchand @RRamchand

    Jun 4, 2015

    U.S. News & World Report

    Researchers have made great progress capturing the consequences of coping with injuries sustained in the theater of war, but the emerging picture is shadowed in grays. A series of recent findings presents a bleak portrait of the cost of modern war to service members, their families, and their health care providers.

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    Transportation Security

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    Are Airport Security Screeners Looking for the Wrong Things?

    K. Jack Riley @K_Jack_Riley

    Jun 4, 2015

    Newsweek

    An investigation revealed that the TSA has failed in contraband testing, at a 95 percent rate. This shouldn't be perceived as an indictment of TSA workers. But it may be an indictment of the particular assignments they've been given.

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  • Smoke rises after what activists said were clashes with Islamic State fighters in Soran Azaz, Aleppo countryside June 1, 2015
    Terrorism Threat Assessment

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    Islamic State's Global Expansion

    Seth G. Jones

    Jun 4, 2015

    The Wall Street Journal

    The radical Islamist group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, is now expanding in roughly a dozen countries across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia by exploiting local grievances, doling out money, and leveraging its battlefield successes.

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  • Trainee health workers preparing to don protective suits at a World Health Organization training session in Freetown September 30, 2014
    Emergency Preparedness

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    What the Ebola Crisis Taught Us About Emergency Preparedness in Africa

    Adeyemi Theophilus Okunogbe

    Jun 4, 2015

    The RAND Blog

    The 2014 Ebola outbreak was the most severe of its kind. At the height of the crisis, 800 to 1,000 new cases were reported per week in Africa across the three most heavily affected countries. As of last week, there were only 12 confirmed cases. What must be done to prevent and mitigate future crises of this nature?

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