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Messi Or Maradona? Why Argentines Argue About Everything
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — People are quick these days to use social networking sites to discredit other people's views with insults and disparagement. It's not just an Argentine thing,...
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Bubble Trouble? Champagne Region Dips Into High-End Vodka
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS A taboo has been broken in Champagne country. Traditionally, winemakers in the French area famed for its legendary bubbly have turned leftover grapes into a relatively...
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Why Trump Is Taking His Trade War To India
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE -Analysis- NEW DELHI — U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to end preferential trade treatment for India, will end benefits under a nearly 50-year-old program for up to...
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The Thinking Person's Internet Dilemma: Chime In Or Tune Out?
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -Essay- BOGOTÁ — For writers — and artists and intellectuals in general — there is constant tension between embracing reality and escaping it. If you're someone who's...
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The Secret World Of Dogfighting In Italy
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA Kali and Marika have been stuffed with nandrolone and carnitine, doped and "dried," waiting to represent the Wild Boys Kennel against rivals Top Line. And so it would end:...
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Puerto Madero Postcard: How A Buenos Aires Neighborhood Came To Life
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — Thirty years ago the stable population of Puerto Madero, today one of Buenos Aires' most upscale neighborhoods, consisted mostly of rats. The rodents swarmed...
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Cloudy With A Chance Of Italian Farniente
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH We often flocked to Italy for Spring, as weather there tends to be better than in my sometimes rainy neck of the French woods. But mornings can be a bit cloudy — nothing...
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Facebook For Felons? New Apps Are A Digital Lifeline For Inmates
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS Laura Whitten, 35, woke up, rolled over and grabbed her phone, snapping a selfie in bed beside her dog. "Good morning, xo" she wrote in a message to her boyfriend,...
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Venezuelan Crisis Deepens Troubles Along Colombia's Border
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -Editorial- BOGOTÁ â As the world recently watched humanitarian supply trucks burn on a bridge between the Colombian town of Cúcuta and the Venezuelan border, locals...
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How AI Can Revolutionize Life For The Disabled
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS â The kitchen is long, with a table for breakfast or coffee â normal for a Parisian apartment. And even though it belongs to Christian Laine, an adapted software...
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Is Kim Jong-un Exporting North Korean Slave Labor To Europe?
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT GDYNIA â The dock is almost 400 meters long and 70 meters wide and is one of the largest container crane ports on the Baltic Sea coast. Nearby in this northern Polish...
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Old Names Die Hard: "Karachi Bakery" In India Has Whiff Of Past
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE NEW DELHI â They lost their land, but refused to lose the names. Partition, along with the exodus of people from both sides of the new border, also facilitated an exodus...
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100 Days: AMLO's Presidency Has Not Crashed Mexico's Economy
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -Analysis- MEXICO CITY - In the first 100 days of the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Mexico has embarked on a process of major social and...
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Europe On Brexit: Pick Your Metaphor
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- "It's almost like Shakespeare: Brexit or no Brexit? That was the question." German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle resorted to a passing twist on Hamlet after...
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Anti-Vaxx Global: How A Social-Media-Borne Contagion Is Spreading
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS â Ebola. Toxic air pollution. The HIV epidemic. Given the plethora of health problems we face, all-but-eradicated diseases like measles, polio and smallpox should...
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Gezi Case: Turkey Must Reject Conspiracy Theory As Justice
Worldcrunch.com / CUMHURIYET -OpEd- ISTANBUL â The current round of indictments prepared by Turkish prosecutors regarding the "Gezi Events" of 2013 shows that the time for judicial scandals and...
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In Egypt, A Push To Give The Military Even More Domestic Muscle
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO â Egypt has had nine constitutions* since its first, in 1882. And in all of them, the military's role was limited to a single task: protecting the country and...
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For Trump and Rubio, "Fixing" Venezuela Is A Recipe For Votes
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BOGOTÁ â Why has an isolationist U.S. president like Donald Trump suddenly become interventionist in Venezuela? The explanation may be, as U.S. Congressman 'Tip'...
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The Enduring Lessons And Legend Of Alexander Von Humboldt
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT BERLIN â Never mind that he couldn't swim. Or that the murky river was ice-cold. Or that at 57 he was no longer a young man. He did it anyway, descending 11 meters in a...
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New Zealand Terror: The Shared Power Of Online Hate
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST -Analysis- It begins with humor. The alt-right's jokes, a teenage friend assures me, are genuinely funny: They ridicule the pomposities of "mainstream" culture,...
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