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Should Colombia Save Its Drug Smugglers From Execution Abroad?
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A Real Sleeping Beauty Wakens To Fairytale Romance
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG Sometimes, Beth sleeps for months – she suffers from the rare sleeping-beauty-syndrome. Her boyfriend Dan then sits next to her, on her bed, despite everything,...
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Trump May Be The Wake-up Call Mexico Needs
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Sign Of The Times: Trophy Killing Of Protected Spanish Wolf
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH The body of a still bleeding wolf was found hanging from a signpost along a highway in northern Spain over the weekend, the latest in a pattern of killings of the...
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Real-Life Dangers Of Our Digital Distraction Age
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH How could something like this happen? Some of us have spent the past week trying to find out the facts (and comprehend the enormity) of Sunday night’s Academy Awards...
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Trump's Foreign Policy, Lots Of Bluster And Little Else
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST When President Barack Obama delivered State of the Union addresses without a full and detailed discussion of foreign policy, conservatives justifiably complained....
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Losing Hand, Uber Drivers In Brazil Play Waiting Game
Worldcrunch.com / FOLHA DE S. PAULO SÃO PAULO — They're sitting down around a small table, shoes and shirts off, playing cards. Who's going to be the lucky winner? And who will have wasted their day?...
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SESAME: A New Accelerator Of Science And Middle East Peace
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS AMMAN — At twilight, in winter, as the muezzin's last call to prayer resonates, the myriad of cube-shaped houses lined up against Amman's 19 hills take on pastel tones. But...
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In Xi Jinping’s China, The Cult Of Mao Comes Roaring Back
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO BEIJING — You don't want to criticize Mao Zedong under Xi Jinping's presidency. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thought it had closed the debates in 1981, when it decreed...
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Hedge Funds v. Silicon Valley, The Battle For Quant Talent
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS On the warmest February day on record in Cambridge, about 60 students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology opt to stay inside a dimly lit lobby, crunching data...
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Warren Beatty And My Dad, A Time For Reflection
Worldcrunch.com / RUE AMELOT I was watching last Sunday’s Academy Awards with my parents in Calgary, Canada and during those now infamous final moments I had something of a surreal epiphany: Warren...
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In Romania, Where Infant Mortality Meets Anti-Vaccination Movement
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA BUCHAREST — Olivia Steer is young and beautiful, and she frequently graces the front pages of Romanian magazines to promote dieting and healthy living. But through her...
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The China Deal Zuckerberg Couldn’t Refuse
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH January 17, 2018* It was a handshake nine years in the making. Amid a mass of red and blue banners — with Facebook’s mission “Making The World More Open And Connected”...
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Middle East, Of Political Dead-Ends And Scientific Hopes
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH SPOTLIGHT: MIDDLE EAST, OF POLITICAL DEAD-ENDS & SCIENTIFIC DREAMS Will the world's oldest conflict ever be resolved? There have been a few fleeting occasions over...
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Electricity And Jobs Help Save Congo’s Wildlife Reserve
Worldcrunch.com / SYFIA INTERNATIONAL BENI — At the foot of mount Rwenzori, the locals erupted with joy when they saw, for the first time in their lives, their homes lit with electric light bulbs. At...
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True Fiction: Iran's Perilous Quest For A New Supreme Leader
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ruled a remarkable 28 years, and counting. As the successor to Islamic Revolution founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,...
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The China Deal Zuckerberg Couldn’t Refuse
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Debate continues to simmer over the threats of "fake news" and the civic and journalistic responsibilities of the world's largest and most powerful social media platform....
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How A "Dumb Phone" Can Save Us From Drowning In Technology
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS GENEVA — The Nokia 3310, the historic and so-very vintage cell phone that you could drop a hundred times without breaking, is back. And I've been wondering why I find that...
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