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1. Should the Olympics move back to Athens permanently?
By Bob Costas at the Aspen Ideas Festival
2. The free market is slowly ending the death penalty.
By Patrik Jonsson in the Christian Science Monitor
By Audra Schroeder in the Daily Dot
4. How one Virginia town is making an opportunity out of sea-level rise.
By Carolyn Beeler at PRI’s the World
5. Can science diplomacy ease tensions in the Middle East?
By David P. Hajjar in Markaz
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