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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.

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Hooman Majd on Iran’s potential to go nuclear.
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The writer says a behind-the-scenes war with Iran is unlikely, though a high degree of espionage is not.
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The writer describes Iran’s relations with Syria, Egypt, and Iraq.
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The writer explains Iran’s long-time support for Hamas and Hezbollah.
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The writer disabuses us of a few misconceptions surrounding a shrewd president with strong support in the Arab world.
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After translating for former Iranian President Khatami, Ahmadinejad’s people shoehorned the writer in as interpreter at the UN.
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Hooman Majd reveals some facts about the Islamic republic that could surprise Americans.
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Dickson Despommier explains that vertical farming would constitute a closed cycle, thus solving many of the water and waste related challenges of modern agricultural methods.
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Technologies used by arid countries could be used in space, says Dickson Despommier.
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Chinese capital markets are about as developed as Wall Street was when Jack Perkowski started there in 1973.
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Thanks to the Olympics, Chinese manufacturers are more attuned to creating environmentally-friendly cars than their foreign counterparts.
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The major tenets of Jack Perkowski’s company have been in place since day one.
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Perkowski sees newcomer American companies all making the same mistakes in China.