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Design
Fay Jones and Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture Comes to Arkansas
A digital exhibition curated by the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and hosted by the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture, on the ten year intersection between the lives of the two architects as captured in one particular house.
Health
NYTimes – U.S. push for Abstinence in Africa Is Seen As Failure Against H.I.V.
Since its passing in 2005, third of spending by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS relief, Pepfar, was spent on abstinence programs to appease conservatives in the US House of Representatives. A new study shows it was largely wasted, producing no measurable change in sexual behavior.
Development
The Guardian – Failing global war on drugs disastrous for low-income farmers, claims study
The war on drugs can have a destabilizing effect on producing countries’ governments, and impact human rights in a variety of ways besides the obvious economic repercussions, a new study says.
MASS in the Press
Long-termism: A New Permanent Cholera Treatment Center for Port-au-Prince
The MASS Daily Clips is a synopsis of relevant daily
news media fielded from the entire MASS team, and helps us keep abreast of issues and developments surrounding architecture, infrastructure, global development, and design.