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THE EXPLAINER
- Flock cameras: How a police tool sparked a surveillance revolt in the US
  Flock Safety cameras, the most widely used automatic license plate readers in the country, are facing new pushback in response to privacy concerns.
  By Victoria Hoffmann / 5 min
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ENDEAVORS
- This guide put a park, and its crocodiles, on India’s ecotourism map
  Sanghamitra Jena is Odisha state’s first female tour guide and the founder of its first nature camp.
  By Kalpana Sunder / 5 min
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BOOKS
- Renoir portraits offer a glimpse into a fleeting world
  “The Renoir Girls” contrasts the images of a sweet, privileged childhood with the barbarism of antisemitism, which flared in Nazi-occupied France.
  By Barbara Spindel / 4 min
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THE WORLD IN PICTURES
- To beat a rickety electric grid, Nigeria’s capital gets creative
  Nigerians are unable to rely on the country’s dodgy electric grid, so residents have developed work-arounds.
  By Light Oriye Tamunotonye / 2 min
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FROM THE EDITORS
- Sept. 11 has become history. It still shapes the news.
  Now, as after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the world is churning over the identities of peoples and nations based on either ethnicity and religion or the values and rights inherent in all mankind.
  By Kurt Shillinger / 2 min
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READERS RESPOND
- Threading history’s strands togetherBy Monitor Reader / 1 min
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