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  • How Germany is integrating its refugees

    The Economist

    September 16, 2017 |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin

    In the midst of the Syrian refugee crisis, Germany has managed to integrate more than 1.2 million men, women, and children into schools and workplaces around the country. Although the learning curve is steep, refugees learn both language and cultural skills to help them adapt to their new life, and families are welcomed into makeshift homes while the government works to build new housing structures.

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  • Ebola in Sierra Leone: Hail to the chiefs

    The Economist

    August 29, 2015 |

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    Response Location: Sierra Leone, Freetown, Western Area

    Local leaders in Sierra Leone helped curb an epidemic, as foreign agencies encouraged chiefs and traditional healers to get involved. Local involvement created more effective engagement.

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  • Looks swell

    The Economist

    March 12, 2015 |

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    Response Location: Australia, Perth

    Carnegie Wave Energy created a system to generate electricity from the ocean’s waves to power Australia’s largest naval base. The system, known as CETO 5, has buoys bobbing up and down below the ocean’s surface that drives a pump attached to the seafloor and pushes water through a pipe to the power station. Each buoy can create 240 kilowatts, and all together the system produces about 5 percent of the base’s electricity. The system will need to be upgraded if they plan to put buoys further at sea where the swells are greater.

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  • Why Sweden has so few road deaths

    The Economist

    February 26, 2014 |

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    Response Location: Sweden

    Sweden's "Vision Zero" program has used a comprehensive approach to infrastructure and regulation to drastically reduce traffic-related deaths, making Swedish roads the safest in the world.

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