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Bengal tigers can be elusive. They're classified as an endangered species, they're mostly nocturnal, and if they had their way, they wouldn't see many humans, either. Native to Southeast Asia, there are only an estimated 1,850 left in the wild. That makes counting them somewhat difficult—but researchers in Nepal have developed a system that they think will make it easier to figure out how many tigers live there. It works for other species as well.

How a proposal for a socially conscious lottery panicked corporations and birthed the 9-figure jackpot.

That $9.2 billion tax bill that Apple dodged in cooking up a scheme this week to finance a $55 billion stock buyback for its shareholders would have been enough to make unnecessary all of the major budget cuts in the sequester. That's not counting the tax dodges of Bank of America, Citigroup, ExxonMobil, FedEx, General Electric, Honeywell, Merck, Microsoft, Pfizer, and Verizon.

Wage theft, foreclosures, Karzai's petty cash,Gitmo, austerity and more ...

The behavior of the Obama administration gives every Latin American and Caribbean leader pause.

The "democracy" that ten years of US war and occupation left behind in Iraq.

'Assata is not a threat. If anything, this is a this is a vendetta'

'the only ones not benefiting in any shape, way or form are the homeowners.”