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Battery Operated Systems for Community Outreach (BOSCO) is an all-volunteer not-for-profit group that works to bring internet to isolated rural areas in Northern Uganda and South Sudan.

Dickie, the general director of the Chicago Opera Theater, is charming, passionate and funny. I don't like to think too much about the fact that this is his last season here.

 Our plates and cups runneth over with more highly anticipated food and drink events than we can handle this week—so protest our hearts and livers. We'll try to survive a yoga class at the Green Metropolis Fair, but as we know in Chicago, this week, one event rules them all: Baconfest.

On this week's Global Notes, Jerome and contributor Catalina Maria Johnson explore some musical collaborations that were almost unimaginable until they actually happened.Israeli pop star and pianist Idan Raichel and Malian virtuoso guitarist Vieux Farka Touré paired up after a chance meetin

More companies from Coca-Cola to Whole Foods to Pfizer are touting their projects that work to improve public health, the environment and other social problems around the world. Is this the sign of a new form of capitalism where profits are making room for social responsibility?

Here in the U.S., sex is a common topic in media and in everyday conversation. But in parts of the Middle East, sex is talked about in very different ways. These differences have led to some misconceptions in the West about how sexuality is expressed in predominantly Muslim countries. Dr.

It was remarkable to see Iran’s 2009 green uprising through the eyes of cell phone recordings. While the recordings provided a vivid look at the protests and crackdown, they couldn’t capture the human drama that unfolded in people's lives. Graphic novels, however, are built for that.