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Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic

By Larry Beinhart

What is civilization? Is it doing business? Exxon, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs? Or is it the rule of law, social order, clean water, sewers and waste disposal, a reliable food supply, literacy, mathematics, science and technology, art, architecture, public spaces and public forums?

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While You Were Sleeping: March 2010

By Siobhan McBride

Kids devote seven-and-a-half hours to media use daily, cruise ships dock in Haiti, California limits marijuana distributors, and biblical references engraved on weapons.

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The Limits of Seeing

By Lorna Tychostup

Senior editor Lorna Tychostup interviews freelance photographer/videographer Tim Freccia several days after his return from Haiti and hours before his departure for Mogadishu Somalia.