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World Wide Hearing is using cheap tech, market incentives, and crash-course training to help restore hearing in impoverished communities.

“It’s amazing what you can find in a kid’s ear…think bugs and cockroaches and little tiny kids with a tremendous amount of mold coming out of their ears.”

That’s Audra Renyi, executive director and cofounder of a 5-year-old Montreal-based nonprofit called “World Wide Hearing Foundation International” that wants to help the world’s other 99%: The hearing-impaired people in poor countries who can’t afford a hearing aid, debilitated by a condition that usually has a simple tech fix in wealthier societies.

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An analysis of 15,000 leaders in 18 countries found that the degree-holders who score much better at leadership skills will surprise you.

Just in time for graduation, reports are examining the economic prospects for the newly minted class of 2016. But one thing is less obvious to both the graduates and their prospective employers: who will make the best leader?

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Losing bits of time here and there can wear you down. Here’s how to make the most of the time that slips away.

Even if the big pieces of your life fit together well, wasted bits of time can feel as annoying as a leaky faucet. Some of these leaks can be blamed on others, and some are self-inflicted, but either way, no one can make more time. Losing minutes in drips and drops can wear you down. Here are some common time leaks, with short- and long-term solutions for plugging them.

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We traveled to Holloman Air Force Base for a glimpse of the future of war—and the future of work.

On most weekday mornings, Crystal drops her daughter, Bianca, at school before driving through downtown Alamogordo, New Mexico, a town of 31,000 people in the Chihuahuan Desert, on her way to work. She and her husband, Luis, coordinate after-school care and pick-up, and by the time the sun sets over White Sands Missile Range, the sky aflame with ragged streaks of pink, they’re both home with Bianca for dinner and homework.

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In two separate high-profile cases the government pushed hard to compel Apple to hack into iPhones—then gave up at the last minute.

In two high-profile cases now, the government has gone to court to force Apple to help break into a criminal’s iPhone—only to abandon its legal effort at the eleventh hour before a crucial hearing or filing deadline.

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Sometimes, everyone is better off when mom goes on strike.

My mother put dinner on the table five or six nights a week when I was growing up, complete with salad and side dishes and place mats and ironed cloth napkins. For many years, I struggled to emulate my mom’s domestic achievement—even before I had kids. But I have been broken down since I started to attempt to feed three people other than myself, two of whom are children and one of whom is as picky as a child.

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