Public health workers have taken on the mission of vaccinating 170 million children under the age of five.
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 Can you tell if that pill in your hand is real or merely a copy? Probably not. But your cell phone can. |
 National Geographic fellow and Pulitzer Center grantee Paul Salopek talks to NPR about the most recent leg of his seven-year journey. |
 In her new book, Kathryn Joyce uncovers how conservative Christians have come to dominate the international adoption market with practices that often amount to trafficking. |
 Health workers in India are overcoming cultural mistrust about polio immunization by turning to local Muslim clerics for support. |
 India has now gone two full years without a single new case of polio. If it continues on this track, it will be declared polio-free in February 2014. |
 In many Indian states, discrimination towards women begins in the womb and ends in domestic violence and sexual abuse. |
 On the eve of an unimaginably long walk one question nagged journalist Paul Salopek: Should he take his house keys? |
 In South Africa, a country with one of the most permissive abortion-access laws in the world, many women find it is easier—and faster—to get an illegal abortion instead. |
 For a journalist embarking on a seven-year journey to retrace the footsteps of early humans, the biggest obstacles are man-made. |
 Along their common border, the Chinese are still learning Russian grammar and moving to Russia, but cheap housing and job opportunities are starting to lure increasing numbers of Russians to China. |
 Freezing temperatures, howling winds and isolated location make new Russian campus a hard sell. |