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a salt-making site at the village of Teguidda-n-Tessoumt in arid northern Niger

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Africa on the Fly

Dangling from a paraglider with a propeller on his back, photographer George Steinmetz gets a new perspective on Africa

Displaced Pygmies

The Pygmies' Plight

A correspondent who chronicled their lives in central African rain forests returns a decade later and is shocked by what he finds

Iran 1979 revolution

Inside Iran's Fury

Scholars trace the nation's antagonism to its history of domination by foreign powers

Paul Polak

Paul Polak, Social Entrepreneur, Golden, Colorado

His new book advocates helping the world's poorest people one tool at a time

Beirut, from an apartment damaged by Hezbollah shelling

Precarious Lebanon

Stricken by sectarian warfare and still reeling from the 2005 murder of its former Prime Minister, the Mediterranean nation brokers a fragile peace

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