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The collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, in April 2013 drew international attention to the plight of garment-industry workers in developing countries. The deaths of more than 1,100 workers revived questions about the ethics of the process through which cheap clothes make their way to consumers. Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt: People contrasts the lives of two women working in garment factories – one in Bangladesh and one in Columbia – and considers how, at its worst, the industry puts its workers in peril, but at its best has the potential to help lift some out of poverty.
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Food and drink
Local tensions simmer amid a potato salad contest at the Czech-Polish border
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War and peace
A war meteorologist’s riveting account of how the Allies averted a D-Day disaster
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Information and communication
An animation built from road signs is a whirlwind study of flash communication
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Art
Creating art that was aware of itself – and the viewer – made Manet the first modernist
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Biotechnology
It’s our responsibility to engineer corals that can weather the world we’ve created
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War and peace
A century later, can poetry help us make sense of the First World War’s horrors?
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Language and linguistics
The little Peruvian guide to public speaking that conjures up a grandiose world
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The ancient world
Archeological discoveries animate the life of the warrior queen who took on Rome
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Biography and memoir
Preserving memories of a Japanese internment camp, and the land where it stood
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