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Tosca In The Time Of #MeToo
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA MILAN — The title should be "Scarpia," not Tosca, because he's the protagonist, in life and in death, of Giacomo Puccini's opera, which opens the season at Milan's La Scala...
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Staff Picks, Our 15 Best Stories Of 2019
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH LES ECHOS France's Yellow Vests And The Problem With Post-Truth Economics Opinion shapers have a habit these days of disregarding facts, be they scientific or economic....
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World War II Memorabilia To Call Home? German Bunkers For Sale
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT HAMBURG — Even now, more than 70 years after the conflict ended, many of Germany's World War II bunkers are still in active use as flats or museums, or by companies and...
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Chessboxing: How A French Novelist Invented The Strangest Sport
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS — Thomas Cazeneuve's boxing club is like chessboxing itself: a work in progress. Next to the punching bags are the remains of a torn-down wall. But the Montpellier...
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HappyBreak: Headset Meditation App To Prevent Work Burnout
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA SANTIAGO — How do you feel today? What's your stress level? These are among questions users hear when putting on their HappyBreak goggles. The startup proposes a...
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How A 'Refugee Town' Fell Victim To Italy's Populist Politics
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA RIACE — The blue plaque at the entrance of the pottery shop says "Home sweet home." It also seems to read Tsehayneshe's thoughts. This is where she belongs and plans to...
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Next Move Tehran? Iran Buries General, Plots "Strategic Revenge"
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Iran and the U.S. have spent the past 48 hours trading threats after an American drone strike Friday that killed General Qasem Soleimani, head of its Revolutionary Guards...
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Roaring Twenties Redux? 12 Bold Predictions For A Decade To Come
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — Over the past ten years, we have witnessed an incredible number of improbable events. From an Islamic caliphate being established and then collapsing in Iraq and...
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Roaring Twenties Redux: 12 Bold Predictions For A Decade To Come
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — Over the past ten years, we have witnessed an incredible number of improbable events. From an Islamic caliphate being established and then collapsing in Iraq and...
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What Is Art? A 20th-Century Question Oddly Lingers On
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -Essay- BUENOS AIRES — Act I: Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan tapes a banana to a gallery wall at the Art Basel fair in Miami, which a French collector buys for $120,000. Act...
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Capitalism's Original Sin: Gender Distribution Of Work
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MUNICH — Just imagine, the Global Gender Gap Report is published and everyone is equal: women earn the same amount as men, and they occupy half of the seats in...
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U.S.-Iran: France May Be Last Best Hope To Prevent All-Out War
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS — In diplomacy, there's always room for talk, even when the window for negotiation seems all but shut. Such is the scenario that Emmanuel Macron faces in wake of the...
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Mozart In Italy: The Journey That Launched A Child Prodigy
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA TURIN — Father Beda Hübner, the young librarian at St. Peter's Abbey in Salzburg, was dismayed. "These Mozarts," he wondered. "Will they ever stop?" The family of musicians...
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Why Women Are Particularly Vulnerable To Climate Change
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTÁ — Is there a relation between women and the environment? Is it necessary to view environmental policies through female eyes? Is there is a difference in...
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Storming The Lithuanian Castle
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH The red-brick Gothic castle on the Lithuanian island of Trakai looks like it's straight out of a fairy tale. However the spell was broken when a full garrison of soldiers...
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A Surreal Facebook Alter Ego To Keep Egyptian Activists Safe
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR -Essay- CAIRO — I don't remember exactly when I decided to create a parallel identity for myself on Facebook. Was it on one of the days following the September 20...
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Too Smart For Our Own Good? Imagining Future Human Evolution
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -Essay- BUENOS AIRES — In a not-so-distant future when hunger, war and epidemics are no longer the agents of widespread death, and with the help of bio-engineering, cyborgs...
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Around The World, The Best Days Of Democracy Are Still To Come
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTÁ — Analysts and thinkers have begun speaking of the death of democracy. Among them are Harvard University professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt,...
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Bottoms Up: Alcohol-Free Liquor Has A Good Shot At Success
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — Pernod Ricard, the France-based global liquor giant, is launching "Ceder's." It is not, however, a new brand of booze, but alcohol-free gin. It will now be...
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