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It’s an unfortunate coincidence that some of the world’s most beautiful places happen to be the most dangerous. No one is suggesting that anyone spend spring break in the Green Zone, but with the Abu Sayyaf in Southeast Asia, Somali pirates roaming Africa’s coastlines, and drug unrest in South America, the world is becoming an increasingly dangerous place. If you have no interest in spending your precious vacation time scratching notches in the wall of a hut, we have a few tips on how to minimize your risk — and what to do if you’re actually capt...

The question of how to respond to cholera is fundamentally a technological one. There are several identifiable constraints: existing water and transportation infrastructure, the capacity of medical facilities and NGOs, and available funding. It’s possible, given these constraints, to determine the most e...