
New York Time's Nicholas Kristof's annual “win-a-trip contest,” for a university student to go with him on a reporting trip to the developing world is open right now. Check it out and enter!

Here's a short article in the NY Times about the upheaval in Ivory Coast over the most recent election. It seems like they are getting closer to getting it right but still have to manage violence and corruption. This article gives good background info that ties in well with what we've been studying most recently.