May 19, 2023

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GLOBAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF _ Nancy Cooper DEPUTY EDITOR _ Diane Harris VICE PRESIDENT, BRAND CREATIVE _ Michael Goesele VICE PRESIDENT, DIGITAL _ Laura Davis MANAGING EDITOR _ Melissa Jewsbury OPINION EDITOR _ Josh Hammer SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR _ Fred G
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The Archives
“The scandal was by any measure the worst in U.S. history, a 10-year loss estimated by Newsweek at $250 billion that was stolen or wasted,” wrote Newsweek of the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s. “It is an unfair drain on honest citizen
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Japan’s Disappearing Act
WHILE JAPAN’S POPULATION HAS LONG BEEN both shrinking and getting older, Asia’s second biggest economy may be nearing a point of no return, according to government reports and officials. As of October 2022, Japan’s population was 124.94 million, a de
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Coronation at Last
Tens of thousands of people from all over the world gathered in London on May 6 to witness the crowning of King Charles III, Britain’s first new monarch in more than 70 years, and Queen Camilla. The ceremony—which more than 20 million watched on tele
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Planet Protectors
HE LATEST IN A SERIES of dire warnings about the dangers of climate change came this March when a prominent United Nations panel of experts flagged that the world is likely to pass a dangerous temperature threshold within the next 10 years. Unless co
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A Portable Way To Make Sea Water Drinkable
DOZENS OF DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES exist to remove salt from ocean water so humans can safely drink it. Most of those methods, however, require large-scale commercial facilities to produce the drinking water, making the technology inaccessible to remote,
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Weaving Clothes With Zero Waste
WHEN BETH ESPONNETTE BEGAN WORKING IN THE fashion industry, she was disappointed to see that “we haphazardly make products” and found it silly that many manufacturers were still largely guessing what people will actually buy. As a result, companies o
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Turning Old Buildings Green
The projects and areas of expertise among the honorees who made the final cut are diverse. But they have this in common: All of these Great Disruptors are using technology in a way that is either already driving fundamental, transformative change in
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Food With A Smaller Carbon Footprint
JULIA COLLINS HAS BEEN USING TECHNOLOGY TO DIS-rupt the food business for 16 years. Now she’s taking on one of the planet’s most pressing problems: how to feed a growing population in a sustainable way. Collins got her start in the restaurant busines
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Using Big Data To Help Make Products Less Toxic
AS A CHILD, JACQUELINE CLAUDIA USED to color in pictures of rivers using a red crayon because “that was my reality growing up in a coal mining town, Patton, in western Pennsylvania,” she says. The toxins that surrounded her hometown and the cancerous
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Transforming Carbon Dioxide Into Useful Goods
TWELVE WANTS TO MAKE A WHOLE HOST OF PROD-ucts greener by changing where the carbon used in their production comes from—taking it from carbon dioxide captured in the air instead of from the ground in the form of fossil fuels. “If we can take the fund
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Wringing Water From Dry Desert Air
CODY FRIESEN GREW UP IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH-west, where frequent droughts mean that clean drinking water is often hard to get. For instance, members of the Navajo Nation in Arizona drive hundreds of miles to Flagstaff or Gallup, New Mexico, to fill th
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A Custodian Of Precious Lands
THE GREAT BARRIER REEF IN AUSTRALIA MEANS more to Larissa Hale than just another tourist destination under threat from climate change. To her and her band of activists, it’s their ancestral homeland. The Yuku Baja Muliku people have lived there for t
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AMERICA’S Best Maternity Hospitals 2023
HAVING A BABY CAN BE ONE OF THE MOST joyous and fulfilling experiences in life. But expectant parents also face a number of important decisions like selecting a doctor, creating a birth plan and choosing a maternity hospital. The best hospitals provi
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Empowering Outings for Mother-Daughter Duos
Cheomseongdae GYEONGJU, SOUTH KOREA Cheomseongdae is the oldest surviving astronomical observatory in Asia. It was ordered built by Queen Seondeok, the first queen of the kingdom, in the early 7th century, and today sits near Woljeong Bridge and Don
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Patrick Ta
FOR PATRICK TA, A MAKEUP ARTIST AND FOUNDER OF PATRICK TA BEAUTY, diversity and inclusion is central. Ta says it is “really important for me to make sure everyone is accounted for in campaigns or the product we make.” This direction comes from person
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