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A La Claire Fontaine
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH There are several such typical watering holes and fountains along the winding roads of Corsica. They come in handy when your daughter is thirsty. See more slides from My...
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Feminist Humor And Basic Economics
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Essay- PARIS — In 1949, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir published the landmark feminist book Le Deuxième Sexe (“The Second Sex”). The work is a challenge to anyone...
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Venezuelan Folly, From Oil Riches to Food Beggary
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -Analysis- Venezuela is one of the world's richest countries, the fifth biggest exporter of crude oil and the third among the United States' energy suppliers. Its proven crude...
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China Looks To Japan As Model In Battle Against Obesity
Worldcrunch.com / ECONOMIC OBSERVER BEIJING — According to the latest reports from the World Health Organization, China has the world’s second highest number of obese people. Even more alarming is its...
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"Impossible" Soccer Comeback On Barcelona Front Page
Worldcrunch.com / L'ESPORTIU L'Esportiu, March 9, 2017 FC Barcelona's stunning victory over France's PSG last night at Camp Nou earned a succinctly shocked (and triumphant) front-page headline in the...
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Mexico City Water Shortages Unleash Outpouring Of Anger
Worldcrunch.com / LA JORNADA MEXICO CITY — The capital of Mexico delivers water unequally to its 20 million people. While residents of neighborhoods like Cuauhtémoc or Polanco suffer occasional water...
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India's Punjab State Plagued By Opiate Addiction
Worldcrunch.com / KBR FIROZPUR — Until a few years ago, Dheeraj Singh went to the gym every day — with dreams of becoming a professional weightlifter. Now he can barely lift his own body weight. What...
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No Mr. Trump, The Art Of The Deal Won’t Work For Diplomacy
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -OpEd- LIMA — Donald J. Trump is the first person in U.S. history to become president without any prior experience in either politics or the military. That may be...
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Seoul Corruption And Female Power
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- It's just a coincidence, but the symbolism is too hard to ignore. Two days ago, as every year on March 8, the world was celebrating women for, among other...
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Pillar Of Faith
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Among the ruins of one of the world's oldest surviving Byzantine churches, about 30 kilometers northwest of Aleppo, stand the remains of the pillar of Saint Simeon...
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Animal Traffickers Have German Zoos On High Alert
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Investigators in Mannheim, in southwestern Germany, have a real whodunnit on their hands, a brutal kidnapping-murder case — but with a twist. The victim is a...
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Cyber War Also Spreads Paranoia Inside Russian Tech World
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO MOSCOW — Slumped on the one of the fluorescent poufs in his Moscow office, a gothic T-shirt-clad Alexander Lyamin says he's "stunned." Founder of Qrator Labs, a Russian...
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How To Stop Trump From Creating The World's Biggest Tax Haven
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE -OpEd- PARIS — What does our next French president intend to do to build a modern tax system that's prepared for a globalized world? It's difficult to know, given how vague...
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Can This City Predict The Fate Of The Dutch Elections?
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA ALMERE — Founded in 1976, this city 30 kilometers from Amsterdam offers a glimpse into the future of the Netherlands. Leaving behind the tourist droves of the capital, a...
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Eureka! The Secret Sauce Behind Creativity
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS GENEVA — Employers have been placing an extra premium on creativity these last few years. They fight to get the so-called creative workers — those who are open-minded, bold,...
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Argentina Concert Stampede, "Another" Front Page Tragedy
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Clarín, March 13 A concert for fans of Argentine music star Indio Solari turned deadly, and the grim details dominated front pages Monday of the nation's newspapers,...
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Experts Agree, It's A Small World After All
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Essay- For the record, I am writing this from home. On a late winter Monday, with most of our crew either off-the-clock or working remotely, I decided to spare myself...
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In Mosul, Tales Emerge Of Sadistic ISIS Female Police Unit
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO MOSUL — Leila Khaled hadn’t felt well that morning. It was the end of August, when the Iraqi summer sun had hit the walls and windows hard, like the wind in the middle of a...
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Post One-Child Policy, China Should Embrace Surrogacy
Worldcrunch.com / ECONOMIC OBSERVER BEIJING — A recent article in the state-run People's Daily turned new attention to the always hot-button topic of human reproduction. For one thing, it suggested...
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Fruits Of Labor
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Brazil is a major banana-producing country. In Belem, the gateway to the River Amazon in the north of the country, these dock workers were unloading the day's cargo...
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