The French Venice
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Port Grimaud, near Saint-Tropez in southern France, has it all. Canals, bridges, islets ... It's just missing a couple of gondolas.
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German Study: Gender Stereotypes Stick In Children's Literature
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH MUNICH — Boys go out on adventures to far-away lands, they are brave and strong. Girls help out their mothers at home, are sweet side-kicks for their male counterparts,...
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Super Bowl Show And A Super Bored Frenchman
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS — Twice a year (for the Academy Awards and the Super Bowl), I renounce my 6-hour beauty sleep and fight timezones to tune in to a bit of live transatlantic...
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Video Surveillance: How Far Will France Go In Face Of Terror?
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — Are there pictures? Nowadays, in almost every criminal inquiry, this is the first thing judges and prosecutors ask. "We can’t work without these tools," says...
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Watch: OneShot — Bertrand Piccard's Solar Impulse Selfie
Worldcrunch.com / SPONSORED CONTENT Bertrand Piccard's Selfie — © Solar Impulse | OneShot Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg accomplished a feat of aviation that few believed possible: the first...
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Military Muscle Makes A Comeback In Latin America
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — Geopolitical conflict, political crises and the continued threat of organized crime are renewing a longstanding question: is the role that armed forces have...
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Italian Researchers Use Drones To Pinpoint Air Polluters
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA TURIN — Drones that buzz around our homes and "sniff" chimneys? That's precisely what Air Pollution Control — a research project making smart use of remotely piloted...
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Vatican, Costa Rica, France: #MeToo And The Sound Of Broken Silence
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- The #MeToo movement was, above all, a collective “breaking of the silence” that shifted the longstanding balance of power on the question of sexual misconduct,...
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Myth Debunked: Machines Create More Jobs Than They Destroy
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MUNICH — Do machines replace humans? Since the beginning of industrialization 200 years ago, we earthlings have been plagued by this fear. From the early...
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How The 21st Century Killed Old-Fashioned Elections
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -Essay- BUENOS AIRES — It took just 25 years into the new century to kill off the electoral campaign. Election campaigns used to seek shock and creativity. The ability to...
View ArticleA Happier Kind Of Philosophy
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH I'm not a religious person. As a philosophy teacher, my go-to thinker was Spinoza, who once wrote that religion was created "to deceive the people and to constrain the...
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In Egypt, A Jailed Blogger's Brief Farewell To His Father
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — Confusion and fear — these were the dominant emotions at the Nour Mosque in Abbasseya Square, in the heart of Cairo. The family of 25-year-old satirist and video...
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Watch: OneShot — Syria, When War Was Just A Game
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT When War Was Just A Game (© Étienne Mallard) | OneShot Etienne Mallard has spent a lifetime venturing far and wide. A retired high-school philosophy teacher, he has always...
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In Basque Country, The First Seeds Of A Post-Growth World
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE BAYONNE — “The school, the market, the baker, the hairdresser, the tiler, the garage, the restaurant, and, of course, the coffee tours in the Pyrenees…” Dante Edme-Sanjuro...
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Why Hindu Nationalism Will Never Kill Gandhi's Legacy
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE NEW DELHI — On January 30, 1948, Nathuram Godse walked up to Mahatma Gandhi at the grounds of Birla House and pumped three bullets into him at point-blank range. The frail...
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Venezuela Crisis: Why China Will Ultimately Turn On Maduro
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -Analysis- BOGOTÁ — Venezuela's late leader, Hugo Chávez, read widely on China before his first presidential trip there in 2000. Yet he knew very little as he descended...
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Knocked Out By A Headscarf: German Boxer Fights For Her Rights
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG BERLIN — The street light remains red. On the street, a car emerges from the darkness, then another one, and one more. On the sidewalk, a young woman is bouncing...
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Watch: OneShot — International Day Against The Use Of Child Soldiers
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT UNICEF marks the International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers on Feb. 12. Also known as Red Hand Day, it calls for urgent action to end the recruitment of children by...
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For African Asylum Seekers, No Way Out Of Israel
Worldcrunch.com / NEWS DEEPLY JERUSALEM - In May 2017, Israel effectively cut one-fifth of asylum seekers’ wages, hoping people such as Eden Tasfamariam would leave the country. This single mother and...
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The New NAFTA's Real Target? China
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ — The recent evolution of foreign trade between Mexico and China is particularly relevant today in the context of China's entry into the North...
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