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Exotic Amazon Fruit Lures Farmers Away From Coca Cultivation
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR GUAVIARE — When Flaviano Mahecha arrived here 23 years ago, in the southern Colombian department of Guaviare, he set about doing what so many settlers had done before...
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How To Fake Drinking To Hide Your Pregnancy
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG -Essay- MUNICH — As a rule, women in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy rarely tell everyone that they are expecting a baby. The risk of miscarriage is still too...
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Trump Masks, Warhol And The Temptations Of Instagram
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS — As the editor of what we call a “digital magazine,” I must make lots of choices on any given day as the various streams of news — real and fake and often just...
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Mixed Feelings From The Masses Awaiting Tesla's New Model 3
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS PALO ALTO — While his high-school classmates were blowing their money on Chipotle burritos and concert tickets, Truman Hale was saving up for a Tesla. In March of last...
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Mindfulness Meets Maria, A Modern Blend Of Buddhism And Christianity
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -Essay- BUENOS AIRES — I am a Buddho-Christian — thoroughly, and literally. I've kept my family's basic Christian casing, but found I needed more than that in this...
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Race For Her Rights, Rwandan Cyclist Takes On Sexism
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE RWAMAGANA — At the corner of a dusty road, Jeanne d’Arc Girubuntu, 22, waits in the yard of her home near Rwamagana, in eastern Rwanda. Her handshake is hesitant and she...
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Father Hamel, A Sole French Terror Victim Worth Remembering
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- PARIS — The nation of France has become a new sort of Ground Zero for Islamic terrorism's attack on the West. Over the past 30 months, images have spread...
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The Chinese Dragon Breathing Down India's Chicken Neck
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Just a passing glance at a map of Asia, and you can't miss the contours of the more than 4,000-kilometer-long border between India and China, the world’s two most...
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How Mussolini Is Making A Comeback On Social Media
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA ROME — "Benito Mussolini is now live ..." The announcement comes across Facebook on a typical afternoon, circa 2017, as a video of Il Duce speaking from a balcony in Piazza...
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German Folklore In The Flesh
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Is that you, Rübezahl? See more slides from My Grand-Père's World here.
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Five Places Around The World Where Women Are (Still) Banned
Worldcrunch.com / TAKE 5 Many are up in arms after UNESCO granted a small Japanese island World Heritage Site status in June. On face value, Okinoshima Island, home to a 17th-century Shinto shrine, is...
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Chinese Faith, When It Comes Time To Choose
Worldcrunch.com / RUE AMELOT -Essay- TAIPEI — I still recall the long journey I made in 1987 during my first visit in China, traveling in crammed buses with the smells of caged poultry on board....
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Albert Hofmann: Looking Back At LSD Inventor's First Strange Trip
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS GENEVA — There are those few rare researchers through the ages so devoted to science that they have used their own bodies as a laboratory for their experiments. After...
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Why All Of Brazil's Presidents Keep Winding Up In The Mud
Worldcrunch.com / FOLHA DE S. PAULO -Analysis- SÃO PAULO — Brazil's presidential system, first installed in 1975 by Brazil's post-dictatorship New Republic, has failed. The recent conviction of Lula...
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L, G, B & T — Deconstruction Of An Acronym
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Americans, including top military and intelligence officials, awoke Wednesday to unexpected news: In a series of early morning tweets, President Donald Trump, who had...
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A Visit To Karbala, The Bustling Heart Of Iraq's Shia Revival
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO KARBALA — Inside the shrine and mosque covered by mosaics, the crowd is rushing to touch the silver edge of the martyr's tomb. Among the crowd is Manjour, 37, who came all...
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The Growing Weight On India's Women Farmers
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE NEW DELHI — Is it surprising to know that on any given day, the people working India’s hundreds of thousands of family farms are mostly women? Some older folks and children...
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North Korea Turns To Spain For Tourism Inspiration
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE MADRID — The affair of Otto Warmbier, the young American tourist who died last month after spending a year and a half as a prisoner in North Korea, has certainly not helped...
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French Naval Pride
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH We French call our country "la France." But when we speak of "le France," that's the SS France — once the biggest ocean liner in the world. In my 60 years of travels,...
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Power And Fear, Making Sense Of The Russian State Of Mind
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump had promised to improve U.S. relations with Russia. His supporters said it was just the kind of bold move the...
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