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Xiongan, Xi Jinping's Dream Megacity To Burnish His Legacy
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS QIAOXI —Time in this village seems to be standing still. Since the Ming dynasty 500 years ago, the community has enjoyed peace and quiet, surrounded by the lakes and reeds...
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Forest Farming v. Cash Crops, Indigenous In India Take A Stand
Worldcrunch.com / KBR KHALPADAR — Lush emerald green hills stretch out into the distance in all directions, as we drive along undulating roads towards Khalpadar tribal village. This is the southern...
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Is The Academic Publishing Industry Ripe For Disruption?
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS LAUSANNE — Who does scientific knowledge belong to? To the researchers who produce it? To the public that finances it through taxes? Neither, in fact. Research is, before...
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Cairo Bipolar, A Tale Of Stage Management And Survival
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR -Essay- CAIRO — I try to be the ideal bipolar. I try to perform my illness in the most rational and grounded way. I contain my episodes so they do not seep into my intimate...
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The Jobless Youth Of Gaza Have Lost Faith In Everyone
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO GAZA CITY — Their world doesn't extend much beyond this piece of sidewalk that never seems to change. Glued to their white plastic chairs, Khaled, Mohammed and Abdel Rahman...
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Frankfurt Lessons: Books Are Not Inherently A Force For Good
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG -Analysis- FRANKFURT — There was something approaching mass hysteria last weekend at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest trade show for the publishing...
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Goodbye, Hungarian Plague
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH The twisted Trinity Column in Sopron, northwestern Hungary, is what they call a "plague pillar." It was erected to give thanks, in the late 17th century, for the end of...
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Confidentiality Clauses, What Protects That Predator Boss
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS NEW YORK — A first-year associate at a Manhattan law firm brought her complaint of sexual harassment to the managing partner. Her male boss, she said, had told her to...
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Mental Health And Jihad, Are Islamic Terrorists Insane?
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — So who was Stephen Paddock? Was the Las Vegas assassin a “very, very sick individual”, as described by Donald Trump? Or a jihadist combatant, recently converted, as...
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Worldwide Tour De Force, Why Top Museums Are Partnering Up
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS — A blockbuster exhibit that opened this month at the Grand Palais will draw art lovers to the French capital. But "Gauguin The Alchemist," which explores...
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New Bans On Burqa And Balaclava: A Halloween Guide
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS — Winter is coming. People here in the Northern Hemisphere are ready to start bundling up before leaving home. But if you’re in Austria, you might want to think...
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Dark And Dynamic, A Tale Of Two Polands
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO WARSAW — It's incredible how much Warsaw has changed since the fall of Communism. While its inhabitants were always colorful and free-spirited, the city itself was dull and...
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Bedouins Bring Tourists Back To Sinai, Steer Clear Of Terror
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR In light of the devaluation of the Egyptian pound and increasingly difficult visa processes, more and more Egyptians are turning to domestic tourism. Yet, while tourists...
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Karstic Trunk
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH This rock formation in Guilin, southeastern China, reminded me a lot of similar karst caves in Ardèche, in my native France. This one's name is translated as, Elephant...
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How Has Trump Avoided Weinstein's Fate?
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — Almost a year after New Yorker Jessica Leeds and other women stepped forward with harrowing accounts of being sexually assaulted by a powerful man,...
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Al-Qaeda To ISIS And Beyond, The Battle Is Not About To End
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- The Islamic State is now on the run in Syria and Iraq. Following the terror group’s defeat this summer in its self-declared Iraqi capital of Mosul, ISIS has...
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The Many Paradoxes Of Taiwan's Own Quest For Independence
Worldcrunch.com / RUE AMELOT PARIS — As a Taiwan native living in Europe, it has been interesting to follow Catalonia's growing demand for independence from Spain at the same time that the Communist...
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ISIS In Philippines, City Decimated By Five-Month Siege
Worldcrunch.com / KBR ILIGAN — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared the liberation of the southern city of Marawi last week, bringing an end to a five-month deadly siege by the Islamic State...
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The Latest Anti-Immigrant Party On The Rise ... In Lebanon
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH ZOUK MOSBEH — Dozens of supporters turned out recently in this coastal town north of Beirut to inaugurate a new political party, the Lebanese Party of Hope, which...
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García Márquez, A Writer's Lifelong Obsession With Medicine
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BOGOTA — Death may be the most obvious recurring theme in the works of Gabriel García Márquez, who died three years ago at the age of 87. But the famed Colombian...
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