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A Turkish Camel's Life
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH My clearest camel memory from this same trip to Turkey 30 years ago was witnessing the millennia-old tradition of camel wrestling. Just a few miles down the road, near...
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Greta's Right, Our World Leaders Still Don't Get It
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTÁ — Every day more people go vegetarian. The carnivores among us look around to see if anyone else is ordering meat. Car drivers feel guilty as bicycles...
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Washington's Role In Rekindling Brazil-Argentina Rivalry
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -Analysis- BUENOS AIRES — Alexander Wendt, an academic who applied a constructivist model to the analysis of international affairs, divided global diplomacy in three distinct...
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Global Warming North: A Balmy Research Journey To The Arctic
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE SVALBARD — The mere mention of our planet's polar regions brings to mind masses of frozen ice, hostile conditions and a general absence of all living things. This is...
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Mazzini V. Mussolini: How Italy's Anti-Fascist Exiles Rediscovered America
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA It was autumn, 1939. Germany had just invaded Poland. France had not yet fallen. Mussolini was Hitler's ally on paper, but had not yet mobilized troops. And the United...
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Jacques Chirac: A Mirror Of France's Many Faces
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE -Editorial- PARIS — With the death of Jacques Chirac, an entire era is now gone. A part of French history has vanished: the France of World War II, and the post-War period...
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Yulin To Paris: Dog-Eating At Center Of Animal Rights Battle
Worldcrunch.com / THE INITIUM YULIN — It's been four days since Mr. Cracker arrived in Paris, and his program today includes a stroll in the park, a nap and a meditation session on the lawn before a...
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What's Wrong With Rappi, Latin America's Star Of Uberization
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTÁ — The billion-dollar startup Rappi is a prime example of the so-called "orange economy" — or creative economy, as it's also known — that Colombian...
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The Struggle To Track Shifting Mediterranean Migrant Routes
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA AGRIGENTO — Together with the island of Lampedusa, Agrigento, a city and province on Sicily's Southern coast, is where the bulk of Mediterranean migrants have arrived in...
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The Sad Story Of Argentina's Disappearing Space Rocks
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — A long time ago, in an area far far from Argentina's big cities, a shower of meteorites rained down from the sky, littering a 15 by 70-sq-km patch of land with...
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On The Trail Of Invisible Bears Wreaking Havoc In The Pyrenees
Worldcrunch.com / RUE AMELOT VAL D'ARAN — It wasn't until I'd made may way clear through to other side of the village that I finally crossed paths with another human: A man about my age returning from...
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How Diaspora Dollars Are Crowdfunding African Development
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE MARRAKESH — It was because of her life experiences that Grace Camara decided to make the universal proverb "Unity is strength, division is weakness" a personal motto — and...
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On The Trail Of Invisible Bears Wreaking Havoc In The Pyrenees
Worldcrunch.com / RUE AMELOT VAL D'ARAN — It wasn't until I'd made may way clear through to other side of the village that I finally crossed paths with another human: A man about my age returning from...
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La Revolution? The French Economists Inspiring Warren And Sanders
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS SAN FRANCISCO — A tall, 250-page stack of papers rises prominently in front of his office window. Sitting on the 6th floor of a large building with a breathtaking view of...
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India's Short-Sighted Push For Himalayan Tourism
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE -OpEd- "Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin." – Bruce Chatwin The more ethereal reasons to live by are definitely to be found in the higher reaches of a mountain....
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Colombia, The Island Mentality Of A Mountainous Nation
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTÁ — I had an opportunity in recent weeks to spend time on not just one, but two islands. The first was La Palma, the westernmost island of the Canaries —...
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It's Me, Not You: Zelensky Between Trump And Biden — And Putin
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Donald Trump's response to the Ukraine-related impeachment probe is nothing short of surreal, with the U.S. president now openly calling on foreign powers to investigate...
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Everything And The Kitchen Sink
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Fish, fruit, pottery, an endless selection of drain pipes: the massive open-air markets were a vivid memory from the northern Brazilian city of Belem.
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Work → In Progress: Gender In The Workplace, Past And Future
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS — In 1919, the International Labor Organization adopted the first conventions on women in the workplace. In 2019, the women who won the World Cup earned $850,000...
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Bill Gates, Say Grazie! How Olivetti Invented The First PC
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA TURIN — "I dreamed of a machine able to learn and then quietly execute, a machine that allows us to store instructions and data, but whose instructions were simple and...
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