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Teaching Empathy and Compassion Can Transform the World

Can we be taught to care more about our fellow humans? Christina Patterson joins the scientists and thinkers who believe a true understanding of empathy could transform the world we live in

by Christiana Patterson

Karen Armstrong: My Wish for a Better World

Essay by Karen Armstrong. In November 2007, I heard that I had won a prize. Each year TED (the acronym for Technology, Entertainment, Design), a private nonprofit organization best known for its superb conferences on "ideas worth spreading," gives awards to people whom they think have made a difference but who, with their help, could make even more of an impact. Other winners have included former U.S. president Bill Clinton, the scientist E. O. Wilson, and the British chef Jamie Oliver.

Algeria: Resources

Monument of Martyrs, Algiers

Algeria Navigator

A list of resources from around the Web about Algeria as selected by researchers and editors of The New York Times.

Jack London by Daniel A. Métraux

The Adventurer-Writer who Chronicled Asian Wars, Confronted Racism—and Saw the Future

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Chhaya Rai: Moral Philosophy of Global Peace

 

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Terrorism: An Historical Context

Anarchist terrorists attack New York skyscrapers in George Glendon's 'The Emperor of the Air' (1910)

By Lulu Rumsey 

Wislawa Szymborska: Photograph from September 11

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Bert Sacks: The U.S. and September 11th

Bert with Iraqi school children

Bert Sacks: Chapter 1