Swindon, UK. An expatriate aid worker will be paid on average four times more (and sometimes much more) than a local employee doing a similar job, with local salaries pushing workers below the poverty line.

The findings have already led to the formation of an international Task Force to promote a fair day's work for a fair day's pay for workers and to develop organizational capacity in lower income countries.

Albany, NY, USA. Governor Andrew Cuomo not only got New York's legislature to pass its budget on time but also changed spending assumptions in ways that nudge the budget closer to long-term structural balance.

Populist outrage at the big bonuses paid by Wall Street firms has mostly melted away since the peak of the financial crisis. But New York State will be feeling the effects of the bonus backlash for a long, long time.

Austin, TX, USA. Sodium channels evolved prior to the evolution of the nervous system, demonstrating how key innovations in complex traits can evolve gradually, often from parts that evolved for other purposes.

New findings help explain our current configuration, while highlighting the potential importance of evolutionary developments. Genetic mutations or changes in our morphology can be dangerous, or they can prove useful when solving an organism's current problems, factors that influence fur

Tampa, FL, USA. Psychologists have tested the assumption that delaying sex reduces sexual risk-taking and bad consequences, finding that in the end it doesn’t really matter whether you delay sex or not.

Sex education has one common message whether it focuses exclusively on abstinence or provides instruction on contraception and other topics: wait. The problem has been that no one had tested this assumption.

Sacramento, CA, USA. The recession has hit California hard, but partisan stalemate and conflicting voter mandates have hit it even harder.

Continual fiscal crisis has become so familiar in America’s biggest state that the annual state budget here has come to resemble an ever-shrinking suitcase: no longer able to contain what politicians and the public crammed inside the years before.