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In The Footsteps Of The Pharaohs
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH The step pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 30 kilometers south of modern-day Cairo, is the oldest remaining pyramid in the world. I pulled out this slide after reading...
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Annals Of Technophobia: When Mark Twain Met The Typewriter
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST This is a story about love, hate and Mark Twain. The object of Twain's desire (then resentment): the typewriter. Twain first laid eyes on a "newfangled typing...
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Watch: OneShot, Stan Lee - So Long To Master Of Marvel
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT Stan Lee, creator of Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, Daredevil and the X-Men, has died at the age of 95. Lee was an outspoken advocate of equality and the value of...
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AI In Healthcare: New Battleground For Big Tech And Startups
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — What if the GAFA quartet (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple) also became giants in the healthcare sector? Google first tried to put on the white coat more than a...
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Sinead O’Connor And The Muslim-Hindu Minefield In India
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE NEW DELHI — When Shehla Rashid, a student leader in India, tweeted to welcome Irish singer Sinead O’Connor into the Islamic fold, she could not have expected much of a...
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German Police Deploy Controversial Silicon Valley Surveillance Tool
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG FRANKFURT — When Chief Inspector Otto activates "Gotham" on his laptop, what's hidden suddenly becomes visible. Lines appear between portrait photos of grumpy,...
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Watch — OneShot: The Story Of Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT It may be the most iconic photograph of the Great Depression. Dorothea Lange's 1936 image has come to be known as Migrant Mother, though the Library of Congress references...
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Carlos Ghosn: The Extraordinary Fate Of A Boss Outside The Box
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — This time, it's unlikely that Carlos Ghosn will make it out unscathed. For the first time in his career, the man who has orchestrated the formation of the world's...
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Egypt Eyes U.S. Foreign Policy Changes After Midterms
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — The Democratic Party chalked up victories across the United States in the midterm elections on November 6, gaining control of the House of Representatives for the...
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Lunching In Paris With An Haute Cuisine 'Food Spy'
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS — We were supposed to be meeting a certain Gilles, known in world of gastronomy as "the finest palate of France." But instead we find ourselves face-to-face with a...
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My Close Encounter With A "Tinder-Surfer"
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -Essay- BOGOTÁ — A few months back I decided to carry out a little experiment on male conduct on Tinder. That's the dating website that allows you, if you "like"...
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Photos, Clothes And Bones: Identifying Migrants Lost At Sea
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA At first sight, he must have been 18 years old. But look at the iliac crest on the upper pelvis, says one of the doctors. The iliac crest still hadn’t fused, as occurs in...
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Swimming Only Under Child Supervision
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Our travels didn't exactly involve many days at the beach. But as we drove in the Turkish heat, we paused here and there so our 13 year-old little mermaid Cécile could...
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Now It's Putin Ready To Pivot To Asia
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -Analysis- VLADIVOSTOK — Donald Trump, Moon Jae-In, and now ... Vladimir Putin? After his summits with the American and South Korean presidents, North Korea's Kim Jong-un...
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Refugia Revisited: The Case For A Global Nation Of Exiles
Worldcrunch.com / NEWS DEEPLY -OpEd- It is now three years since Robin Cohen and I started to develop the idea of Refugia — a future transnational polity created and governed by refugees, migrants and...
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Between AMLO And Bolsonaro, Can Argentina's Macri Hold Center?
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -OpEd- BUENOS AIRES — Brazil's president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, has just joined what can be imagined as Latin America's core triangle of influence and power. Brazil is one of...
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Autobahn Alternative? A Peek At Germany's First Solar Road
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG ERFTSTADT — Standing in his down-quilted jacket on a small field path in Erftstadt, near the city of Cologne, Donald Müller-Judex points to a few bushes behind...
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What The Mumbai Attacks Changed For India — And For Terrorists
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE MUMBAI — They say that human memory tends to shut out trauma. But the pain caused by the attack 10 years ago on Mumbai will always be difficult to forget. What happened on...
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How Europe Can Win The Blockchain Battle
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -OpEd- PARIS — Could Europe be a future blockchain paradise? Unthinkable just a few months ago, the idea is quickly gaining ground, especially in European capitals, from...
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Shame And Amnesia: On Colombian Treatment Of Venezuelan Migrants
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTA — The biggest of many differences between Colombia and Venezuela is that, at the start of the 20th century, our Venezuelan neighbors opened their doors to...
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