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Who Wins And Loses In The "Robot Car" Revolution
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -Analysis- PARIS — The wheels of the first car started spinning more than a century ago. At the time, horses and their droppings were polluting roads and causing many...
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Conflict Over Catalonia, Bad To Worse
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH MADRID — For Mariano Rajoy, it's as if October 1 never happened. The Spanish Prime Minister insisted that his government was simply implementing Spain's democratic...
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Las Vegas, Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History
Worldcrunch.com / LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oct. 2, 2017 "Mass shooting on Strip," reads the front page of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, just hours after a man opened fire on...
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When Luxury Brands Counterfeit The Counterfeiters
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS — The shoe has found its way to the other foot. In its 2018 cruise collection, Gucci paid homage to Dapper Dan, the famous Harlem couturier who was forced to close...
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Wouldn't It Be Nice
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH The setting and timing of this shot coincide perfectly with the release, half-way around the world, of the seminal surfer album Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys. But this...
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World Newspaper Front Pages Of Las Vegas Shooting
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH The worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history was the top story in newspapers around the world, after a gunman opened fire at a country music concert Sunday night in Las...
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Las Vegas: Mass Shootings And The 'Terrorism' Label
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST For the third time in four months, a tragedy on U.S. soil is dominating the country's attention. And for the third time in four months, we're about to have a...
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In Palermo, Mafia Takes Aim At Historic Vucciria Market
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA PALERMO — As the Sicilian capital’s oldest market, La Vucciria has long drawn visitors from around the world for its myriad colors and aromas. While its peculiar traditions...
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Donald Trump: Asshole Or Idiot Or More Fake News?
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -OpEd- PARIS — Donald Trump’s task on Tuesday should have been simple enough. Traveling to the storm-ravaged island of Puerto Rico, the American president was supposed to...
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The Identity Awakening: Catalonia, Europe And Beyond
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO -Analysis- PARIS — Considered anti-constitutional by Spanish courts (and denounced by the King), the Oct. 1 independence referendum in Catalonia fits in with a much...
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Skin In The Game, Up Close With A Feminist Cam-Girl
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS LAUSANNE — The ritual is as deliberate as it is important. Every evening of the week, Sandy (not her real name) opens her eyes wide and, in front of her bathroom mirror,...
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A Marble Souvenir
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH To help me remember where I've been, along my 60+ years of travels, I have amassed a decent collection of rocks, pebbles, bits of bark — in addition to my 20,000 slides....
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What Swiss Guns Tell Us About American Mass Shootings
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- After the shooting in Las Vegas, social media platforms predictably lit up with calls for new gun control laws. And just as predictably, American gun rights...
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An IKEA Acquisition Shows Limits Of The Sharing Economy
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS SAN FRANCISCO — I can't help but feel disappointed that TaskRabbit, the San Francisco-based startup and "sharing economy" pioneer, has agreed to become a unit of Ikea....
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Xi Jinping's Second Term: It's The Economy, Stupid
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -Analysis- BEIJING — It's been going on for months: Chinese authorities have ramped up censorship of the news and on social media as part of a vast operation of political...
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In Afghanistan, Bodybuilding Gains A Cult Following
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE KABUL — You see the images everywhere in the streets of Kabul: bare-chested men posing with their protruding and pulsating muscles. Scattered across the Afghan capital, the...
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If Washington Kills Iran Nuke Deal, Europe Will Be Furious
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST —Analysis— WASHINGTON — More than any other issue that has threatened transatlantic cohesion this year, President Donald Trump's decision to decertify Iranian...
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National Tragedy In The Age Of Trump
Worldcrunch.com / RUE AMELOT -Essay- PARIS — When I awoke Monday morning to news of the shooting in Las Vegas, the toll stood at two people killed and 20 more wounded. By the time I arrived at the...
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In Earthquake Rubble, Political Aftershocks May Hit Mexico
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -Analysis- MEXICO CITY — Crises bring out the best and worst in us, both in society and government. The earthquake that struck central Mexico on Sept. 19 revealed a...
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U.S. Should Stop Blaming Colombia For Its Drug Problems
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTÁ — After more than half-a-century of fighting, Colombia's FARC guerillas have surrendered their weapons and officially transformed themselves into a formal...
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