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1. This is why the child care system is broken and how to fix it.
By David Loewenberg at New America
2. How a slum can actually be a small business accelerator (with a billion dollar economy).
By Rina Chandran in Place
3. No, Europe does not need its own army.
By Judy Dempsey in the Washington Post
4. Need medicine in a rural or remote place? Just add water.
By Ananya Bhattacharya in Quartz
5. Are the Nobels good for science?
By Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus in STAT

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