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Little Rabbit, Be Good
Nobody patrols the Internet more vigorously than the Chinese government. Yet despite its vast army of censors and software filters -- or, rather, because of them -- the web is the most creative space for self-expression in China. Here, Larmer talks about the satirical animations of Wang Bo, a 41-year-old artist better known to his Internet fans as Pi San, that offer a glimpse into this seeming contradiction. Adapted from the source document.
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In Argentina, the influence of one economic superpower is giving way to another
It should have been easy, traveling through Argentina, to find a bottle of soy sauce. My sons, born and raised in Asia, have a habit of seasoning their food with a few drops or it, and Argentina happens to be one or the world's leading producers of soybeans. Flying over the country's heartland-- the fertile expanse known as the pampa...
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What Soybean Politics Tell Us About Argentina and China
A new superpower’s influence is growing in Latin America.
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Trade wars, visa restrictions and anti-immigrant sentiments threaten one of America's most vital exports: education
It's no mere coincidence that Jeffrey R. Brown, the dean or the Gies College of Business, at the University of Illinois at Urhana-Champaign. is also a scholar of risk management. At his first faculty meeting four years ago. Brown fretted that his school had become, like many American universities, overly dependent...
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One of America’s Most Vital Exports, Education, Never Goes Abroad, but It Still Faces Threats
Trade wars, visa restrictions and anti-immigrant sentiments make it harder for the U.S. to school the world.
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China drives the global trade in endangered-animal parts. Will it help shut that trade down?
The cryptic declaration From Beijing alarmed and mystified wildlife conservationists around the world. Reversing a 25-year-old ban on the trade of tiger bones and rhinoceros horns, the Chinese government announced in October that it would foster a \"controlled\" legal market in these goods. The move...
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China’s Mixed Messages on the Global Trade in Endangered-Animal Parts
Will the growing interest in traditional Chinese medicine — at home and abroad — doom some of the world’s rarest species?
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What 52,000 Percent Inflation Can Do to a Country
Venezuela has become just the latest victim of hyperinflation — that perfect storm of economic mismanagement, consumer anxiety and political chaos.
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The government wants it to happen --and the country's G.D.P. would benefit. So why does Japan make it so hard for working women to succeed?
Two gray-haired men from Tokyo Medical University bowed their heads in shame before the assembled media in early August. An internal inquiry into one curious case-- how did a government official's son gain admission despite doing poorly on the entrance exam?-- had exposed a pattern of fraud and...
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