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Sourcing That Mango: Blockchain Brings Transparency To Food Supplies
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — It was the central subject of a farming conference this month in Argentina: How can blockchain help the agriculture sector? Blockchain is a data structure where...
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Exile Of Mind: To Be Young And Far Away From My Native Egypt
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR BERLIN — On the bus I now take to university in Berlin every day, I reach compulsively for my phone to check Facebook for updates from Egypt. I see that someone else has...
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David Foster Wallace, Finding Empathy Hidden In Red Tape
Worldcrunch.com / RUE AMELOT PARIS — On September 12, 2008, David Foster Wallace hangs himself in his California home. He is 46 years old and has suffered a life-long battle with depression. The...
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Watch: OneShot — Mary, When A Whole Family Faces Illness
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT Photojournalist and National Geographic storyteller Ed Kashi has traveled to rural Peru to document the effects of Chronic Kidney Disease of undetermined causes (CKDu), which...
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Street Food Bargain In Brazil
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH On the waterfront of Salvador da Bahia, a fellow Frenchman was busy bargaining for a plate of Bahian acarajé. The body language of sidewalk commerce is understood all...
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Starbucks In Italy, Latest Stop On U.S. Food Imperialism Tour
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS — Italy's borders have been breached, but this time it isn't by the Huns, the Visigoths or the Normans. It's Starbucks. The world's largest chain of coffee houses...
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The "Yin-Yang" And Bad Economics Of China's Movie Industry
Worldcrunch.com / ECONOMIC OBSERVER BEIJING — Fan Bingbing, China's highest-paid actress and star of the 2014 blockbuster X-Men, recently received some unwanted public attention—an accusation of tax...
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Language Battles In India: Benefits Of A Mother Tongue Education
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE DEHRADUN — On Saturday, the kids who live upstairs from me got their "results." "What are 'results'?" Lakshi asked. "How you did on your papers," her Mom explained. Vijay —...
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Love It Or Hate It, Amazon May Be Impossible To Live Without
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG -Analysis- MUNICH — The stock market isn't just an indicator of economic success and power relations. It also tells us much about the current state of society,...
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OneShot: Florence, A Silent View From Space
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT Look into her eye... The East Coast of the United States was bracing for Hurricane Florence to make landfall Friday, with hundreds of thousands evacuating to avoid potential...
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Inside Tunisia's Battle Over Inter-Religious Marriages
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE KRAM — It's marriage season in Tunisia, and the town hall of this municipality north of Tunis, is staying open late into the evening. They have to accommodate everyone....
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"Fat Acceptance" In Latin America: Resisting Tyranny Of The Slim
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — Lux Moreno is an Argentine philosopher, writer and activist of the so-called fat-acceptance movement. In Argentina, it is the Fat Movement (Movimiento Gordo),...
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OneShot: Patty Hearst, The Mysterious Tale Of An Heiress
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT The story remains a mystery to this day. On February 4, 1974, the 19-year-old daughter of millionaire newspaper publisher Randolph Hearst was kidnapped from her home in...
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Water Pollution And The World's Plastic Bottle Conundrum
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS —The global war on plastic continues. With several U.S. cities, the UK and the European Union all proposing to ban plastic straws, people are now turning their...
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Female Sexuality, Still A Victim Of Egypt's Patriarchy
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — A friend of mine lived alone in downtown Cairo. She was single when she moved in but after getting into a relationship, her boyfriend joined her. One day in 2012,...
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On Political Correctness And The American Left, A French Take
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -OpEd- PARIS — The gravity of the situation at the White House grows clearer each day. The anonymous article published by the New York Times in which a high-ranking...
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The Loaded Politics Of Human Milk Banking
Worldcrunch.com / NEWS DEEPLY In 2016, the Nairobi-based Africa Population Health Research Center (APHRC) set out to determine just what Kenyans thought about human milk banking. In situations where...
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Boyan Slat, A (Nicer) Elon Musk To Save Our Oceans
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT SAN FRANCISCO — With the Golden Gate Bridge in front of him, Boyan Slat points to the horizon and says how nice it would be to save the world. He leans against the railing...
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What Colombia Can Learn From Uruguay's Mellow Pot Policy
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTÁ — Right around the time the new administration in Colombia issued a decree ordering police to destroy any and all illegal drugs they find — no matter what...
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Postcard From Tehran: Iran's Post-Revolution Generation Comes Of Age
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE TEHRAN — It's a spring afternoon in Tehran. Near the Saadi metro station, in the heart of an historic downtown neighborhood, young musicians play an old pop melody from the...
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