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from Asia Times Online
News & Media Website
The eurozone economy grew at its slowest quarterly pace since 2016, missing modest forecasts, to rise 0.3%, according to official data released on Tuesday.
tate-owned Chinese news outlets, including China Central Television, have begun a campaign of criticism against Apple, prompting speculation that Beijing is ready to leverage public opinion in an escalating trade conflict with the US. One article, published online by CCTV, said that Apple had failed to block gambling advertisements as well as pornographic novels transmitted through its messaging app.
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from DW News (Deutsche Welle)
Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Bonn, Germany
German population with immigrant background reaches new peak in 2017
According to the latest "micro-census," the number of people in Germany with immigrant roots rose to 19.3 million last year. Although society is becoming more diverse, many have argued that it's not become more open.
German population with immigrant background reaches new peak in 2017
According to the latest "micro-census," the number of people in Germany with immigrant roots rose to 19.3 million last year. Although society is becoming more diverse, many have argued that it's not become more open.
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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
Rabaul, August 1943
The naval and air bases that Japan established at Rabaul on the eastern edge of New Britain Island in 1942 became the leading edge of its resistance to America’s return to the Western Pacific. Five hundred miles from the nearest Australian air base and supported by nearby Japanese naval and air power, Rabaul almost prevented America’s power, projected as it was from across the Pacific, from gaining a toehold in Guadalcanal, on the easternmost edge of the Solomon Islands. That notwithstanding, Rabaul continued to dominate the Southwest Pacific. The history of Rabaul, August 1943, reminds Americans of the military price of overcoming bases established to block our access to the Western Pacific.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Compassion, Self-Interest and Envy Shape Redistribution
In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Professors Leda Cosmides and John Tooby from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and their coauthors take an evolutionary look at the issue of income inequality and redistribution. As the authors note, "Markets have lifted millions out of poverty, but considerable inequality remains and there is a large worldwide demand for redistribution. Although economists, philosophers, and public policy analysts debate the merits and demerits of various redistributive programs, a parallel debate has focused on voters' motives for supporting redistribution. Understanding these motives is crucial, for the performance of a policy cannot be meaningfully evaluated except in the light of intended ends."
Ridley: EU's Anti-GMO Crusade Is Unscientific and Harmful
The European Court of Justice has just delivered a scientifically absurd ruling, in defiance of advice from its advocate general, but egged on by Jean-Claude Juncker’s allies. It will ensure that more pesticides are used in Britain, our farmers will be less competitive and researchers will leave for North America. Thanks a bunch, your honours. By saying that genome-edited crops must be treated to expensive and uncertain regulation, it has pandered to the views of a handful of misguided extremists, who no longer have popular support in this country. GMOs used elsewhere in the world have reduced pesticide use by 36.9 percent, while increasing yields by 21.6 percent.
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from New York Times
Newspaper in New York
Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
This narrative by Nathaniel Rich is a work of history, addressing the 10-year period from 1979 to 1989: the decisive decade when humankind first came to a broad understanding of the causes and dangers of climate change. Complementing the text is a series of aerial photographs and videos, all shot over the past year by George Steinmetz. With support from the Pulitzer Center, this two-part article is based on 18 months of reporting and well over a hundred interviews. It tracks the efforts of a small group of American scientists, activists and politicians to raise the alarm and stave off catastrophe. It will come as a revelation to many readers — an agonizing revelation — to understand how thoroughly they grasped the problem and how close they came to solving it.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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