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Forget Tokyo's schoolgirls and Milan's fashionistas. Businesses seeking new customers should look to the world's 4 billion poor people. By serving this consumer market, they can make substantial money and, oh yes, relieve world poverty.
Two facts. Over the past 50 years, the number of cases of chronic illness among children in the West has risen sharply. During that same period, the vaccinations of babies and young children against infectious diseases have expanded enormously. Are these two developments related? A growing number of scientists think they are. One mother decided to investigate.
Coumba Tour
Scandinavia and South America top list of world's most sustainable nations
By selling mobile phones in Bangladesh, GrameenPhone has made an important contributoin to the fortues of poor villagers.
Suriname, a South American land covered by rainforest, is gambling that protecting nature will pay off better than destroying it. But this admirable plan depends on creating comfortable eco-resorts that can co-exist with rugged wilderness. American travel writer Joe Kane has his doubts and sets off in a canoe to find out if it's possible
The key to happiness is doing nothing in particular
The power and promise of silence
Christopher Reeve put a famous face on disability, and inspired many people around the world. Before his death in October, he was working on this essay about courage.
Gender differences greatly affect diagnosis and treatment
"video games make you wiser"
What Clint Eastwood taught me about the world
Realism, not romance, is what can save your relationship
He may well be the psychotherapist with the simplest recipe: kindness. According to Piero Ferrucci, freedom starts with being kind. To others. And yourself. History provides the proof: "One of the reasons behind the success of evolution is that we've been kind to one another."
In his art and his actions, Tame Iti fights for the rights of New Zealand's native peoples
The United States presidential elections are tomorrow. more
