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Facebook May Suddenly Find Itself Without A Business Model
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS I think I understand why Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg hasn't publicly responded to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. He's stuck in a catch-22. Any...
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Japan v. China: Who Has The Next "Lucky" Generation?
Worldcrunch.com / ECONOMIC OBSERVER TOKYO — Chinese boys and girls are often referred to as “Little emperor” or “Little princess.” They grow up in surroundings with financial means where six adults...
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Women In Science, A Brand New Formula Needed In India
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE NEW DELHI — A recent photo posted on Facebook by the Secretary of the Department of Science and Technology, Ashutosh Sharma, featured 41 heads of Indian educational and...
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Europe To Silicon Valley: Time To Pay For Your False Promises
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG -OpEd- MUNICH — We are making the world a better place: That has been a central promise that helped Silicon Valley's Internet giants seduce the public, on their...
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Donald Trump Could Usher In A Female Revolution In Congress
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — How many times have we heard that this is the year of the woman? Let’s just say, several. Each decade for the past century or so seems to have...
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Peeking At The Pearl
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH From afar, the northern Sahara town of Ghardaïa, Algeria looks very quiet — and very dry. But once you get to the shade of its main square, you can relax, sit back and...
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Solzhenitsyn's Widow: On Putin, Russian Soul And French Lit
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO PARIS — As we prepare to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the author of The Gulag Archipelago, his widow and intellectual accomplice, granted a rare and...
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The World Needs A Strong France-Germany Alliance More Than Ever
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -Analysis- PARIS — On paper, the ritual was faithfully respected. The Chancellor's fourth term begins as it should, with a mandatory first foreign visit to Paris. And this...
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Egyptian Election: Yes, There Is Another Candidate
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — Over the course of the past two months, since Ghad Party head Moussa Mostafa Moussa decided to run for president, the party and its relatively unknown candidate...
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When Agribusiness Gives You Lemon Pulp, Make Biofuel
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — Citrusvil, one of the world's biggest lemon exporting firms, is a top investor in state-of-the-art techniques to eliminate waste, curb pollution and recycle...
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Deep In Italian Mob Territory, Migrant Workers Face Violence
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA ROSARNO — A shantytown of tents and shacks stretches out across an abandoned industrial district halfway between the towns of Rosarno and San Ferdinando, deep in the...
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When Terrorists Get Help From Amazon Recommendations
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH While the Facebook backlash shows no sign of abating, another member of the famous GAFA group of tech giants continues to push forward with its plans to take over the...
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When The IRS Tracks Down "Accidental Americans" In France
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO PARIS — In 1964, a happy young French couple moved to the United States. The husband had just taken a new job at IBM and his wife was expecting their first child. They...
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Safari On 5th Avenue
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH I guess for some, it's a jungle out there in Manhattan.
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Open Air, Open Bar: High-End Teepee Getaway Near Bogota
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BOGOTÁ — Living in traffic-choked Bogotá means stress and anxiety, and locals are always looking for a rural refuge outside the Colombian capital. I recently found one...
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Mao Or Erdogan? Defining Trump's Brand Of Authoritarianism
Worldcrunch.com / YONDER -Essay- WASHINGTON — On Nov. 8, 2016, Erik Hagerman was struck by a bolt. Donald Trump was victorious, the last thing he wanted to hear. So on that very day, the 53-year-old...
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Germany's Difficult Divorce From Diesel
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MUNICH — A recent high-court decision giving cities the right to ban diesel motors as a way to improve air quality took Germany by surprise. It's been a shock for...
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Speak Sisi: Tracking Egypt's President Evolution Through His Words
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — This June, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will deliver a speech accepting his second term as president of the republic, following this week's (virtually...
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A New Brand Of Antisemitism, From France To Germany To Britain
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- The murder last Friday of Mireille Knoll, an elderly Jewish woman stabbed to death and partly burned after her killers set fire to her small Parisian...
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After Brexit And Trump, Italy's Urban-Rural Divide Deepens
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA -Analysis- TURIN — After the final votes were tallied following Italy's March 4 election, I hung a map with the results on the wall above the desk where I work. Now that a...
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