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Bridging the Border
by Emily Ullmann: In 2013, a bridge in southern California will reach across the armed fences of the border that the United States has tried so hard to keep impregnable....
Exploring the Future of Undersea Evacuation
by Sarah Mich: Halfway around the world from the beaches of California, a ship that carried the secret to an ancient trade route rests quietly on the ocean floor....
Cholera’s Divisive Reappearance
by Deirdre Dlugoleski ‘The relationship between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is a complicated, very strange relationship,” reflected Robert Lamothe. A teacher...
The New Cartographers
by Cathy Huang: It was half past midnight at Tufts University, but despite the late hour, the basement computer lab pulsed with energy. The several dozen volunteers...
Bolivian Rhapsody
by Sanjena Sathian: ‘First time to Bolivia?” My plane was on its final descent into La Paz, and the man next to me had stopped staring at me long enough to...
Measuring Mountains
by Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins: I have always been fascinated by the superlative. Fastest. Hardest. Longest. Highest. The –est has always captured my imagination...