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In the news, Friday, March 30, 2018


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from Asia Times Online

China accuses Canada of being ‘US colony’ as trade sparks fly
NAFTA partner’s planned crackdown on the dumping of cheap steel angers the world’s second-largest economy. China picked apart remarks made by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when he announced plans to bring in new regulations to crack down on countries dumping cheap steel and aluminum in foreign markets.

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from BBC News (UK)

As a child growing up in poverty in the rural Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe, Moses Murandu was used to having salt literally rubbed in his wounds when he fell and cut himself. On lucky days, though, his father had enough money to buy something which stung the boy much less than salt: sugar. Murandu always noticed that sugar seemed to help heal wounds more quickly than no treatment at all. So he was surprised when, having been recruited to come to work as a nurse for the UK’s National Health System (NHS) in 1997, he found that sugar wasn’t being used in any official capacity. He decided to try to change that. Now, Murandu’s idea finally is being taken seriously. A senior lecturer in adult nursing at the University of Wolverhampton, Murandu completed an initial pilot study focussed on sugar’s applications in wound healing and won an award from the Journal of Wound Care in March 2018 for his work.

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from HumanProgress.org  Education Website

Are We Suffering from a Crisis of Meaning?
For many decades, critics of economic development argued that rising incomes and greater material abundance did not lead to higher levels of happiness. In 1974, Richard Easterlin from the University of Southern California noted that people in richer countries were not happier than people in poor countries. Subsequent research found that the so-called Easterlin Paradox did not exist. Instead, happiness seems to increase with affluence. Today, a different kind of criticism is gaining round. Happiness may be increasing, the critics of economic development concede, but life in a modern capitalist society is more and more devoid of meaning. What are we to make of this criticism?

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from Military.com
News & Media Website

New Wings for A-10 May Keep it Flying Past 2030: Air Force Secretary
Last year, the Air Force told Congress that 110 of the 283 A-10s in its fleet were in danger of being permanently grounded unless money was appropriated to re-wing them. The $1.3 trillion omnibus spending packaged signed by President Donald Trump last week included $103 million requested by the service for the re-winging.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from Sputnik
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Broadcasting & Media Production Company out of Moscow, Russia

'UK Trying to Return to Tradition of Domination in Europe' – Journalist
The UK is set to launch a “counter-propaganda war” designed to tackle the alleged Russian threat, according to a plan dubbed the “Fusion Doctrine,” announced by Theresa May on Tuesday as part of a national security review. Sputnik discussed the UK’s overhauled security policy with Jury Turin, a philosopher and journalist living in Denmark.

Ex-EU Consultant: US, Russia Should Work ‘Behind Scenes’ to Reset Relations
US President Donald Trump’s administration should work backchannels with Moscow to reduce superpower tensions in resolving the row over the expulsion of scores of diplomats, former European Union (EU) consultant Paolo von Schirach told Sputnik.

Picture of White Students in Blackface Sparks Probe at US University (PHOTO)
Washington State's Walla Walla University announced Monday that school officials had launched an investigation after being made aware of a Snapchat photo showing white students in blackface.

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