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1. Is the special Saudi-U.S. relationship on the rocks?
By Ray Takeyh at the Council on Foreign Relations
2. Two-year degrees can really pay off.
By Liz Weston at Reuters
3. A self-contained urban farm, delivered in a box, could slash water use by 90 percent.
By Danny Crichton in TechCrunch
4. How a lake full of methane could power Rwanda and DR Congo.
By Jonathan W. Rosen in MIT Technology Review
5. Nope, we’re not going to live on crickets in the near-future.
By Brooke Borel in Popular Science
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