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Fear For Sherpas' Future Grows With Each Climbing Tragedy

Relatives carry a casket bearing the body of a Mount Everest avalanche victim for cremation in Kathmandu on Monday. Prakash Mathema /AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Fear For Sherpas' Future Grows With Each Climbing Tragedy

Sherpas have a great reputation as the world's best climbers. But when something goes wrong up in the mountains, it deeply affects the small ethnic group and its communities around the world.

Struggling To Get Out Of Poverty: The 'Two Generation' Approach

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War On Poverty, 50 Years Later

Struggling To Get Out Of Poverty: The 'Two Generation' Approach

Struggling To Get Out Of Poverty: The 'Two Generation' Approach

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Fear For Sherpas' Future Grows With Each Climbing Tragedy

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Fear For Sherpas' Future Grows With Each Climbing Tragedy

by Arun Venugopal

Fear For Sherpas' Future Grows With Each Climbing Tragedy

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How An Army Officer And Diplomat Wrote His Way Through Trauma

Ron Capps talks with refugees in the Kisna Reka refugee camp some 15 miles from Pristina, Kosovo, in 1998. In his role as a U.S. diplomatic monitor, Capps traveled through Kosovo gathering intelligence from refugees and Serb forces about the situation in the region. Santiago Lyon/AP hide caption

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Author Interviews

How An Army Officer And Diplomat Wrote His Way Through Trauma

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How An Army Officer And Diplomat Wrote His Way Through Trauma

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In 'Every Day Is For The Thief,' Cole Chronicles A City's Reality

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Book Reviews

In 'Every Day Is For The Thief,' Cole Chronicles A City's Reality

by Meg Wolitzer

In 'Every Day Is For The Thief,' Cole Chronicles A City's Reality

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On Singing, Sex And The Importance Of Being Eartha

Jazz singer René Marie's latest release is I Wanna Be Evil: With Love to Eartha Kitt. Janice Yim/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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On Singing, Sex And The Importance Of Being Eartha

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René Marie On Singing, Sex And The Importance Of Being Eartha

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