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Why This Caribbean Island Has Streets Paved In Plastic
Worldcrunch.com / NEWS DEEPLY UTILA — With its picture perfect turquoise waters, the Caribbean island of Utila, part of an offshore archipelago called the Bay Islands, is a tropical paradise. But its...
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Holy Vox Pop: Poland's Youth And The Religion Age Gap
Worldcrunch.com / GAZETA WYBORCZA WARSAW — After the publication of the Pew Research Center's latest global report on demographics and religiosity, many readers of Gazeta Wyborcza shared their own...
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Latin America Deserves World Cup For Conspiracy Theories
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- Many of the Colombian players broke down in tears after coming up just short in last night’s World Cup match against England. Still, they can hold their heads...
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From Jet Set To Prison Time, Advice From A Fallen German CEO
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS AUGSBURG — One moment you’re the globetrotting head of a corporation with an army of subordinates to execute your every order, the next you’re behind bars and required...
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Watch: OneShot — Hello Dolly!
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT Can a clone have a birthday? Well, let’s just say that Dolly the sheep was delivered 22 years ago on July 5 — the world’s first cloned mammal to see the light of day. The...
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Will Mexico's New President Be More Lula Or Chávez?
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -Analysis- It's no secret that Mexico has serious problems, starting with high poverty levels (44% of Mexicans are poor), crime (there were a record 32,000 homicides...
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Latin America Joins Global Race To Score "Zero Waste"
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BOGOTÁ — The world has so far produced over 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic, of which 91% has not been recycled. Studies suggest our drinking water is already...
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U.S. v. Europe: Is The Great Transatlantic Schism About To Happen?
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE -OpEd- PARIS — Historians of the future may write that the 20th century ended on November 8, 2016 with the election of Donald Trump, though we should hesitate before giving...
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A Quiet Polish Summer Before The Turbulent Spring
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Looking at the fading colors of this Wroclaw memory, you couldn't really tell that at that time, Poland was in the early stages of one of the country's worst economic and...
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Merkel, May And A New Wave Of Women Mayors Around The World
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS — When they met Thursday in Berlin, Angela Merkel and Theresa May were two leaders in crisis: the German Chancellor trying to salvage her governing coalition in the...
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Everyone's A Suspect: How China Keeps Tabs On 1.4 Billion People
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS BEIJING — He'd been waiting months for this moment. With his wife and friends, Mr. Ao was finally going to be able to see his idol on stage. It was the first Saturday of...
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Grave Risks To The Singular Himalayan Ecosystem
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE UTTARAKHAND — The Himalayas represent a dynamic, changing landscape. The roles played by tectonic and climate forces in making it what it is are evident. A product of...
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Bisexual? Pansexual? The Non-Binary Caught In Between
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS — Men, women, heterosexuals, gays, lesbians. Forget all of those “old” categories. Last month, the results of a national survey in France of biphobia and panphobia —...
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A Bank In Zimbabwe Aims To Tap Into Female Entrepreneurship
Worldcrunch.com / NEWS DEEPLY HARARE – When Divine Ndhlukula first launched her security business in 1998, she found it difficult to get funding and a struggle to gain access to the markets that would...
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Ready For Cricket Flour? Ethics And Economics Of Insects As Food Commodity
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG CHIANG MAI — How do 400 million chirping crickets sound in a huge hall? "Very loud," says Radek Husek, laughing. "It's just deafening right now." The 25-year-old...
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Brexit To Greek Debt: EU Is Easy Boogeyman, Brutal Negotiator
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS LONDON — Boris Johnson and David Davis, Britain’s freshly departed Brexiteer ministers, are a cautionary tale for anti-establishment politicians across Europe. The...
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Boston T Line To Paris Metro: When Public Transport Fails The Disabled
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS — Soon after arriving in Boston for my university studies, I began to notice people in wheelchairs and others with physical disabilities struggling to use the...
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Why Israel Is Letting Its Tech Startups Go
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS TEL AVIV — "Who will be the next Waze?" Israeli newspapers asked in 2013 as soon as the startup, founded just five years earlier in a Tel Aviv suburb, was sold to Google...
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Watch: OneShot — Happy Birthday Malala
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT Pakistani activist for female education, who survived a brutal Taliban attack, Malala Yousazfai became the youngest person to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize. Now she's...
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In Cairo, Makeshift Slums v. Government Housing Project
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — As the public bus approaches the main gate of Asmarat on Street 9 in Cairo's Mokattam district, a police officer and two security guards appear. The bus goes...
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