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A little late, but what was the best April Fools' Day joke you were a part of or heard about?

Clayton Crockett offers a "Smoker’s Manifesto for Etiquette."

The New Frontiersman: Smokers and nonsmokers lack respect for one another | Gen Why Press This pair was once as inseparable and acceptable — and American — as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but somewhere along the line a rift was born, leaving drinkers steaming ahead while smokers choked on the fumes.

Panama Canal renovations could mean renewed economic vitality.

The global impact of the Panama Canal renovation | Gen Why Press On January 7, 1914, the Panama Canal was completed by the U.S. Government under President Woodrow Wilson. Famously commissioned by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, the Canal was primarily understood by the United States as a critical step towards establishing international naval supremacy. Howe...

It is the same old same old at the World Bank.

Preserving the Status Quo at the World Bank | Gen Why Press Barack Obama’s nomination of Jim Yong Kim to be President of the World Bank is emblematic of everything that is wrong with the development industry. It is an embrace of the top-down, outdated theories that have done little to help Africa over the past sixty years. Moreover, instead of finally lettin...