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1. Things are actually improving in the developing world.
By Steve Radelet at the Brookings Institution
2. New York City is warning consumers about sodium. Too bad it won’t work.
By Melissa Dahl in the Science of Us
3. Since gun control seems politically impossible, let’s fix mental health care in the U.S.
By Michelle Hackman in Vox
4. A missing ingredient in the terrorism fight? Police reform.
By Yezid Sayigh at the Carnegie Middle East Center
5. Can stem cell therapies stave off old age?
By Linda Marsa in Aeon
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