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Within the rarified world of technical intelligence, few have matched the extraordinary instincts of Arthur Lundahl, who, in 1961, founded and headed the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC)--and who, a year later, alerted President John F. Kennedy to his agency's images of Soviet nuclear warheads in Cuba, leading to the missile crisis. In late November 1984, I had lunch with Lundahl at O'Donnell's, a bustling seafood restaurant near his home in Bethesda, Maryland; afterward, he asked me back to his place, where we could talk more privately. On a wall of his small wooden house on Chestnut Street were a number of his awards, including the National Security Medal, the highest honor in the U.S. intelligence community; the CIA's Distinguished Intelligence Medal; and even the Order of the British Empire, with the rank of honorary Knight Commander, presented to him by Queen Elizabeth II.
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For months, the news out of West Africa has been unrelentingly grim. As of early December, the devastating Ebola epidemic had infected a reported 17,942 people and killed 6,388, according to the World Health Organization (WHO); the actual toll, which would also account for unreported cases, is presumed to be even higher. Order has broken down in some towns and villages, and entire families have been wiped out. In Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia, seeds of economic growth that only recently seemed so promising have been threatened, suddenly, by catastrophe. The cost of the epidemic is likely to hit at least $3 billion by the end of 2015, according to recent World Bank estimates.
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136344
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WALTER ISAACSON, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute and author of 2014's The Innovators, a history of the digital revolution, and MEGAN SMITH, U.S. chief technology officer (CTO) and a former Google executive, discuss imagination, invention, and the need for a stronger Silicon Valley-Washington nexus.
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WE SAT IN ENDLESS TRAFFIC, listening to Afrobeat on Smooth 98.1, in downtown Lagos, Nigeria. Olayinka Oluwakuse III, who goes by Yinka, explained that he isn't a full-time hxer for journalists--or, at least, that he doesn't do it for the money. He does the job (and does it well) because he likes hanging out with people--whether it's taking them to Makoko, a slum on Lagos's waterfront that, he said, journalists always want to see, or escorting them to the sets of Nollywood, Nigeria's film industry.
Yinka is like many other entrepreneurial types in one of Africa's largest cities. Depending on whom you ask, Lagos is home to 15 million people, or maybe 25. It has only a few tall buildings, and everything is packed together: pedestrians, buses, apartments, street vendors, taxi touts.
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The first victim of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa was almost certainly a 2-year-old boy in the small village of Meliandou in south-eastern Guinea. Since his death in December 2013, the disease--whose previous outbreaks killed at most hundreds of people, and generally in rural areas--has infected thousands of people across West Africa, as well as a handful of people around the world, due to porous borders, ill-equipped health systems, and a faulty international response. The virus has drawn comparisons to one of history's greatest biological killers: the plague, which killed tens of millions of people from China to Europe in the "Black Death" of the 14th century.
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National constitutions are supposed to enshrine fundamental rights for everyone — and for generations. Such documents are also products of moments in time and reflect perceptions of life in those moments. That’s why the best of them, like the U.S. Constitution, contain the seeds of their own reinvention. Indeed, the secret to a sustainable constitution is that it both captures what is enduring and anticipates the need to change.
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SIGHTLINES
Innovations: Touching the Void
10 Things To Do In Cuba Before It Changes Forever (The Daily Western) Scientists are on the verge of developing 3-D holograms that respond and react to human contact.
Hlograms that humans can touch: The very idea conjures up visions of a sci-fi future in which police investigators handle 3-D images of crucial evidence and surgeons probe a model of a patient’s brain to find the precise location of a tumor. Now, researchers at Britain’s University of Bristol are turning those visions into reality.
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IN BERTRAND PICCARD'S family, there's a tradition of being first. His grandfather, Auguste, was the first person to ride a balloon into the stratosphere. His father, Jacques, was the first to reach the Earth's deepest point, the Pacific's Mariana Trench. And in 1999, Bertrand completed the first nonstop, around-the-world balloon flight. That feat, plus an environmentally conscious approach to innovation, spurred the renowned Swiss adventurer to dream of circumnavigating the globe in a plane that uses no fuel.
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IN MAY 2009, A TRUCK ROLLED THROUGH THE SHEIKH YASIN CAMP IN MARDAN, Pakistan’s “city of hospitality,” where thousands of people had fled following one of the country’s military offensives against the Taliban.
If water was a scarce commodity to this refugee community, ice was a luxury. And it was worth fighting for: A single block could refrigerate whatever perishables the displaced had secured for their families.
Over the past 10 years, Hungarian photojournalist Balazs Gardi has explored how something as basic as water has become a source of global conflict. But his work focuses on more than just environmental catastrophes and humanitarian challenges; exposing corporate interests—the massive bottled-
water industry and the plastic waste it creates—is another layer of his project. When it comes to water, he asks, “Who produces it?
Who owns it? And who profits from it?”
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