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China's Long-Game Strategy For The Caribbean Sea
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -Analysis- MEXICO CITY — China's geostrategic expansion toward the Caribbean Sea says a lot about the deeper interests feeding tensions between the world's biggest...
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From Weinstein To Bollywood, The Economics Of #MeToo
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE NEW DELHI — A year after the Harvey Weinstein story first broke, India's own #MeToo movement is finally taking off. Working women are coming forward on social media with...
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Companies (And Governments) Must Take A Stand On Saudi Arabia
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG -OpEd- MUNICH — A business conference will take place next week in Saudi Arabia, dubbed "Davos in the Desert." It comes at a delicate moment to say the least:...
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Siberian Photos Help Connect Argentina To Its Asian Ancestry
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — A journey through time with some surprising results. At the risk of oversimplifying things, that's what came to mind after visiting a photo exhibit called "The...
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Echoes Of The 1930s As Global Currency War Ignites
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — It hasn't been declared officially. But if you really take stock of the political atmosphere, it certainly looks like a currency war is afoot. Donald Trump and his...
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Gentrification Reflections, An Uber Day In Washington D.C.
Worldcrunch.com / YONDER WASHINGTON — “My son has very dark skin and unusual grey eyes. They are so intense that you see his eyes first, and then the rest of his body.” My conversation with Mona —...
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Snapping Turtle Photos In China
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Since turtle shells are used in traditional Chinese medicine and their meat is considered a delicacy there, this bit of Guangzhou's street market is definitely not a pet...
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Colombia: Deforestation And Usurping Indigenous Land Go Together
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BOGOTÁ — Neither laws nor state actions have managed to curb the progressive deforestation of Colombia's Amazonian territories, which include the homes of indigenous...
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How A Soviet-Era Bootlegger Became Russia's Newest Billionaire
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS MOSCOW — Russia's very sober president, Vladimir Putin, has spent 18 years erecting barriers to selling alcohol to a population that's still recovering from the...
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The Ecological Scourge We Fail To Talk About: Overpopulation
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE -Open Letter- PARIS — In the weeks since France's popular environment minister, Nicolas Hulot resigned, after expressing disappointment with President Emmanuel Macron’s...
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The #Metoo Backlash Against Egyptian Women
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — Laila (not her real name) was sexually assaulted at work by a colleague. But that, she soon discovered, was just the beginning of an ordeal that took another dark...
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When Buddhist Monks Meet Quantum Physicists
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE GANGTOK — Geshe Thabke is a Buddhist monk at the Sera Jay monastery near Mysore, Karnataka. On the sidelines of a conference called 'Science for Monks,' I sat down with him...
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Talkin' Italian 10-Year Bond Spread Blues
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA -OpEd- TURIN — If you think that J.P. Morgan is just another agent of the villains of international finance under the command of Public Enemy No. 1, George Soros, close...
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When A Writer Meets His Fictional Character In Real Life
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BOGOTÁ — You tended to change your email account over the years. Hotmail, Yahoo, or Une here in Colombia ... until Gmail absorbed it all and you forget some of the...
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Khashoggi Murder And The Miscalculations Of MBS And Trump
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS RIYADH — Values or interests, ethics or realpolitik? The murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by a Saudi commando is the perfect illustration of the dilemma that's at the...
View ArticleLife On The Amazon
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH You can travel the world for more than 60 years without being an aventurier, per se. Still, we got pretty close from the relative comfort of our Amazon cruise where we...
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Why Women Executives Should Just Be Themselves
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -OpEd- SANTIAGO — Putting on one face at home and another at work is passé. Increasingly, firms are looking for leaders — including women — who aren't afraid of...
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The Trump Effect: Can We Blame Him For The Bombs?
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST -OpEd- WASHINGTON — What hath Trump wrought? Republican Congressman Greg Gianforte (R-Mont.) last year pleaded guilty to assaulting a journalist. President Trump...
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Watch: OneShot — Fisherman Eye In Rio
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT With her Alibi series, Brazilian artist Alice Quaresma is pushing the boundaries of photography. Incorporating collage-like geometrical shapes into her images, she disrupts...
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German Automakers: Dump Diesel Strategy Once And For All
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG -Analysis- MUNICH — Here's what happens during a typical week these days in the German auto industry: The Munich public prosecutor imposes an 800-million-euro...
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