Nothing’s wrong with praying for an illness to go away. Just don’t count on it…
Month: July 2019
Brazilian President Bolsonaro is wrong to think rainforest destruction is purely an internal matter. The patrimony of the natural world is at stake.
A derivative of the Bauhaus revolution, the Isokon building brought modernity, and affordable rent, to conservative Britain — 85 years ago.
MONTE CASTELLO DI VIBIO — “Sei la figlia di Satana! Gesù non ti ama!” It was 1989 and I was 8 years old — and my teacher was screaming at me in front of my classmates, telling me I was Satan’s daughter and that Jesus didn’t love me. I had been looking forward to my […]
Five Argentine design studios are using ‘collaborative association,’ a format that eliminates competition among members, in order to export products and promote the ‘Argentine brand,’ Clarín reports.
CAIRO — Some people prefer working in the shadows. Egypt“s vast informal economy has drawn the focus of government officials in recent years. Authorities have been looking to merge the informal economy with the formal economy as quickly as possible in order to boost official economic figures, which have been marked by low rates of […]
Squabbling online isn’t the only way to connect with the world.
To meet its current healthcare needs, France looks to the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec which are giving more autonomy to nurses rather than boost the number of doctors.
ISRO is forced to compete with U.S. tech giants for India’s engineering talent. And with its breakthrough moon mission, India shows the success of its working model.
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Dry As A Sardinian Sculpture
These wrinkly clay busts were sitting in the backyard of a Sardinian sculptor’s workshop. With the sun on their grimacing faces, this felt like the right image to share today as temperatures broke records across my native France.
The Italian writer’s work is best known for his role recounting the horror of concentration camps. He was that man, and so much more.
Hezbollah and its patrons have spread their tentacles to South America with help from local friends including Venezuela’s socialist regime. Argentina is belatedly backing the Western stance against the international Islamist group.
As Carrefour gets ready to sell a majority of its operations in China, lessons can be learned from the history of the French retail giant’s choices over the years.
Skylines evolve over time, but that doesn’t mean cities like Bremen, Germany should let developers erect whatever kind of tower block they want.
Too often works of art are being judged not by their aesthetic or intellectual merit, but on how closely they toe a certain ideological line.
India knows about the power of Facebook. And a single ‘board’ will likely be insufficient to incorporate more diverse opinions and contexts into the company’s content moderation practices.
The accepted notion that men ‘are always ready’ for sex is false, and can lead to relationship troubles, and much worse.
Along with all the hardware to get to the moon and back, the Apollo 11 mission also brought along three Hasselblad 500EL cameras. With video and audio equipment to beam sound and moving images back in real-time, NASA also wanted to preserve the history in crisp, high definition photographs. Two of the Hasselblads were taken to the moon’s surface: one was a Hasselblad Data Camera with a Zeiss Biogon 60mm lens, which was attached to Neil Armstrong’s chest to document what he was seeing during his stroll on the lunar surface; the other, a Hasselblad Electric Camera (HEC) was used […]
Laws take time to catch up with reality. Could we program them into binary systems? It is tempting, but it is also dangerous.
In putting into use fast-moving ways of startups, the state looks to improve quality of public services. A hundred or so state-sponsored startups have already been launched with the hope of contributing to the modernization of the administration.
A half-century later, Neil Armstrong’s ‘great leap’ still boggles the mind. Here’s a look back at some of the headlines that followed the historic feat.
PARIS — In the beauty and fashion industry, Instagram and brands have begun to blend into one. And it’s happening all over the world. As Sabine Delanglade explains in Les Echos, the French business daily, the social media success stories tend to follow a certain script. You need at least 50,000 followers for sponsors to […]
Brazil’s President Bolsonaro tells Argentine daily Clarín that, in contrast with his populist profile, he wants to liberalize the economy and forge free-trade pacts across the world.
Growing up in the 1970s in the hectic but more innocent India, the magazine offered a young man the right dose of irreverence to shape his world view for a lifetime.
Mateo García Elizondo’s debut novel, which explores the limits of consciousness, marks his first steps on the literary path set by his grandfathers, two eminences of modern Spanish-language literature.
In a world that is closing up, industrial policy is coming back in force. But to succeed, it will have to be reinvented
The murder of a local politician has put new attention on the kinds of verbal hate and periodic harassment that was largely repressed until recently.
The National Radio and Television Administration has issued a ban on historic melodrama in time for the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. A billion-dollar industry is turned upside down.
The EU-Mercosur free trade agreement will likely force economies like those of Brazil and Argentina, to modernize and ditch the last vestiges of protectionism.
After the death in prison of deposed President Mohammed Morsi, rights organizations accuse again Egypt’s authorities of medical negligence within prisons.
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Carthage Must (Not) Be Destroyed
Carthago delenda est. “Carthage must be destroyed.” As I was wandering the ruins of the ancient capital (near modern-day Tunis) I had Cato’s famous oratorical phrase stuck in my head … Clearly a remnant of my Latin-learning years!
President López Obrador’s confrontational approach to ruling Mexico has reminded many of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez. But he seeks confrontation as a tool like the iconic 20th century Argentine leader.
Ekrem Imamoglu’s victory in the recent rerun election in Istanbul was a breath of fresh air for Turkish democracy. But to really recover lost ground, the country needs a new set of rules, writes Yakup Kepenek.
-OpEd- PARIS — We live in a society that changes rapidly, and we wish for schools that reassure us. Schools that are forward-looking, perhaps. Even our schools in the Third Republic that we refer to so often were anything but retrograde. On the contrary! The school believed in the ability of its Black Hussars — […]
A spotty performance as a communicator and uncertain start to downsizing the state mark the fiery Jair Bolsonaro’s first six months as president of Brazil.
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There has been an obvious and unnerving crackdown on dissenting voices in the weeks since Narendra Modi began his new term as prime minister.
Democratic systems offer little incentive for long-term thinking. But unless we can implement true, forward-looking policies, problems like climate change will only multiply.
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Can A Writer Ever Retire?
Writers, artists and thinkers often must work to the end, if creative activity were work, both to stave off poverty and their own ‘vital’ degradation.
Today, young women like Carola Rackete and Greta Thunberg have the power to conquer hearts and instill idealism into politics. But ultimately, their admirers have to act themselves if they want change.