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The Obama administration appears to be quietly relaxing a five-year Bush-era ban on Cuban cultural exchanges

NGOs in Ghana offer birth control help, and sometimes exploit loopholes to help women get abortions

Empowering environmentalists, one cocktail at a time

The generational clash over corporate dress

Daily founded to champion democracy in Poland during Communist rule struggling to survive, as U.S. economy sours and some emigrants return home

A transplanted, transgendered Texan tries to recover from two suicide attempts, and reconcile to life with HIV

Members hope Islamic financing practices arrive in time to save it

An unemployed furniture salesman, at the end of his resources, is forced into a shelter. But a new kind of employment office gives him hope.

Did I just graduate, or am I imagining it? Journalism alumni keep right on interning at big publications, leaning on retail jobs and parents to pay the bills

A successful young filmmaker explores his worsening multiple sclerosis

As shrinking traditional media abandon the dedicated religion beat, blogs and specialty publications are picking up the slack

Best-selling author’s whacky lifestyle experiments test the bonds of matrimony – and sanity

Analysts shake their heads, but hope more education will prod young people to put tech skills to better use