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Is Biodegradable Always Environment-Friendly?
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MUNICH — Everyone these days is talking about plastic waste that, instead of being recycled, is floating in the world's seas. In many hip salad bars, for example,...
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When China Went To Davos: Those Chilly Winds Of Global Capitalism
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- Two years ago Chinese President Xi Jinping — in the wake of the twin election victories of Brexit and Donald Trump — arrived at the Davos World Economic Forum...
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Educating Adivasi: The Side Effects Of School For India's Indigenous
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE RAYAGADA DISTRICT — After graduating from high school, 17-year-old Khirot Kutruka might pursue a university degree. But eventually he says his plans are to return to the...
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Populism Or A United Europe? Italy Wants Both
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA -Analysis- It is better to have less democracy, provided everyone's better off. This is what 43% of Italians believe, according to a survey conducted by the Piepoli...
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Why Terrorism Persists In A Post-FARC Colombia
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -Analysis- BOGOTA — I must say I'm not surprised by the resurgence of terrorism in Colombia, where on Jan. 18 ELN (National Liberation Army) guerrillas killed at least...
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How We Build Human Bias Into Artificial Intelligence
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -OpEd- PARIS — When Amazon realized that its AI recruiting tool favored men, the company quickly shelved it. Back in 2016, a chatbot released by Microsoft turned into a...
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China's Dark Side Landing: How The Moon Loses Its Mystery Appeal
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG -Essay- The Moon’s cultural history is one of disenchantment. Thousands of years ago, people still believed that it was a deity, there were legends about...
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Watch: OneShot — Tijuana, And The Other Sides Of Shutdown
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT Jonatan Matamoros, 36, climbs the border fence at La Playas de Tijuana, Mexico on December 8, 2018. He was part of a migrant caravan with his wife and son from Central...
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Venezuela Crisis Unleashes Old And New Fears In Latin America
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH The sudden political crisis in Venezuela has major reverberations across Latin America and the world. Both old and new dividing lines in the region have emerged since...
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Indian Elections: Gandhi Siblings v. Mister Modi
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE NEW DELHI — Two years ago, Narendra Modi would have imagined a very different 2019 election campaign awaiting him. He would have expected his dominance on the national stage...
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"Yellow Vests" And The Limits Of Democratic Force
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE -Analysis- PARIS — So what has become of this France, champion of maintaining order, exporter of its savoir-faire and its materials to other democracies — and to...
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The Women Who Opposed Hitler And Why They Were Forgotten
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MUNICH — Centa Herker-Beimler never let anyone intimidate her. As a communist in Munich during the 1920s, at age 17 she had already clashed with the Nazis. In the...
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Caribbean Nations Must Open Arms To Displaced Venezuelans
Worldcrunch.com / NEWS DEEPLY -OpEd- Mateo* has earned refugee status in Trinidad and Tobago, but he still doesn't have the legal right to work. And yet work he does — seven days a week, 12 hours a...
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GAFA Go Home: America's Tech Giants Brought Down To Size
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — Like gods returning to the mortal sphere, the past months have seen Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, known together under the acronym GAFA, lose their luster....
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Mumbai's Monorail Debacle, Lessons For Other City Planners
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE MUMBAI — On December 14, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) abruptly terminated its contract with the Indo-Malaysian consortium L&T-Scomi...
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How One-Child Policy Still Weighs On China's Fertility Rate
Worldcrunch.com / ECONOMIC OBSERVER BEIJING — On Jan. 21, China's National Bureau of Statistics published the number of newborns in 2018: 15.23 million, two million fewer than the year before — and...
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In Venezuela, Washington Returns To Its Imperialist Ways
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BOGOTÁ — As the Venezuelan crisis unfolds, one can hear the clash of disagreements. The United States has no business meddling in the affairs of other nations. The...
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Is This The Final Chapter For World's Iconic Bookshops?
Worldcrunch.com / RUE AMELOT -Essay- PARIS — A week or so before Christmas, I decided to take advantage of a quick in-and-out visit to Paris to visit one of the city's most iconic expat...
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Longer Lives, Dying Alone And The Things We Leave Behind
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH TOKYO — Masazo Nonaka, 113, was the world's oldest man when he died last month on Japan's northern main island of Hokkaido in an inn that has been run by his family for...
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Venezuela: Global Left Seduced By Another Latin American Strongman
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -OpEd- BUENOS AIRES — In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn (1922-96) explained that scientific knowledge is obtained incrementally, within theoretical...
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