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Lucy Wang is a summer intern for Global Envision. She currently attends Georgetown University and majors in international relations. She hopes to travel in Southeast Asia this fall. Later this summer, Lucy will be traveling to Taiwan to teach English. She enjoys photography, traveling and Indian food.

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Recent Posts

Sep 2, 2008 - The Odd Couple
Jun 24, 2008 - Pedaling Forward
Jun 19, 2008 - The Wheel World
Jun 11, 2008 - Street Smarts
Jun 6, 2008 - Feeling the Heat
Jun 5, 2008 - Bad Reception
Jun 3, 2008 - Arctic Carve-Up
May 27, 2008 - Choking the Lungs of Our Earth
May 16, 2008 - Changing the Score


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'Quiet Corruption' Hurting Africa's Poor

San Francisco Chronicle - Mon, 03/15/2010 - 09:22
A World Bank report says teachers and other public servants who don't show up for work are fueling "quiet corruption" throughout Africa that is disproportionately hurting the continent's poor.

Industrial Output Up; Hopes For Factories Grow

NPR - Mon, 03/15/2010 - 08:45
Industrial production edged up 0.1 percent in February, beating expectations and marking the eighth straight monthly increase.

Cash For Work and Planning for the Future

Mercy Corps Blog - Sun, 03/14/2010 - 23:23
Two Mercy Corps workers talk with 62-year-old Rosemarie Joseph in her makeshift tent at the Lycée Jean-Marie Vincent displacement camp in Port-au-Prince.

Price Gap Spices Sugar Fight

Wall Street Journal - Tue, 03/16/2010 - 21:09
The battle over U.S. sugar quotas is flaring once more as the gap between domestic and much-lower global prices reaches its widest level in at least a decade.

Ushahidi - Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley

International Herald Tribune - Sun, 03/14/2010 - 12:08
A small Kenyan-born Web site is bringing crowdsourcing to disaster relief and other humanitarian causes.
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