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Novels Worth Reading Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Novels Worth Reading

I know, it’s all you can do to keep up with what you want to binge on Netflix, but now is a time like never before to recapture the lost art of reading. Last year, a survey was taken of English professors to recommend the 20 classics every American should…
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April 27, 2020
Can We Track COVID-19 and Protect Privacy at the Same Time? Palantir

Can We Track COVID-19 and Protect Privacy at the Same Time?

Caroline Buckee, a top epidemiologist at Harvard’s T. H. Chan School of Public Health, has devoted her professional life to studying malaria and other infectious diseases. As news of a novel coronavirus emerged from China, Buckee realized that her area of expertise—how infectious diseases evolve as they move through vulnerable populations—would…
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April 27, 2020
Top Russian doctor falls out of 5th floor window during conference call to bosses complaining about lack of PPE for medics Venezuela

Top Russian doctor falls out of 5th floor window during conference call to bosses complaining about lack of PPE for medics

A senior doctor in Russia plunged 50 ft from her office window during a conference call when she was told her hospital would be forced to take in coronavirus patients, say reports. Dr Yelena Nepomnyashchaya, 47, a mother of two, had objected to the move because of an 'acute shortage' of personal protection equipment…
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April 27, 2020
Why the most significant macroeconomic risk is not the upcoming recession, but the collapse of the Euro and the European Union Grexit

Why the most significant macroeconomic risk is not the upcoming recession, but the collapse of the Euro and the European Union

Ten years after the credit crisis, the European Union demonstrates that it has learned very little on how to unite and decisively take pan-EU measures to tackle crisis and support recovery. A series of long negotiations between the major economies of the South versus the North, with the European Central…
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April 27, 2020
The Islamic Republic of Iran four decades on: The 2017/18 protests amid a triple crisis Iran Liberalism

The Islamic Republic of Iran four decades on: The 2017/18 protests amid a triple crisis

Throughout its tumultuous four decades of rule, the Islamic Republic has shown remarkable longevity, despite regular predictions of its im- pending demise. However, the fact that it has largely failed to deliver on the promises of the 1979 revolution, above all democracy and social justice, continues to haunt its present…
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April 27, 2020