Health-care stakeholders are watching Mississippi's experience with a system created in Iran in the 1980s closely to see if it's worth promoting nationwide.

Cars are being kept out of popular pedestrian areas worldwide and the movement is coming stateside.

Many foreign countries provide faster, cheaper and more widespread Internet access than the United States. In most of them, governments are much more involved with telecom policies and funding.

View an interactive map with health costs for each country, and read our first-ever International Issue online Feb. 1.

There's a new push to get these 2,000 international partnerships working together on concrete development programs.