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Alibaba

In Alibaba’s hometown, a grim message: ‘don’t go out’

Hangzhou: A loudspeaker broadcast ominous instructions across the deserted streets of Hangzhou, the eastern Chinese city that is home to e-commerce giant Alibaba: "Please don't go out, don't go out, don't go out!" Hangzhou is famous for being where tech tycoon Jack Ma founded his online shopping business in an…

bubmagFebruary 5, 2020

Times Square

PornHub Continues its March to the Mainstream as Streaming Stars Make Fashion Week Debut

Pornhub’s march to the mainstream continues with the news that performers on the site are to walk the New York Fashion Week runway for the first time.Page Six reports that porn stars made famous by the “YouTube of Porn,” including Asa Akira, Marica Hase and Jade Kush (note, these may…

bubmagFebruary 5, 2020

Biological Warfare

5 Books About Pandemics That Will Help You Understand Coronavirus

No matter where you are in the world, you’re probably hearing about the coronavirus outbreak. It might be lurking on the fringes of your awareness, causing some minor stress, or radically affecting your daily life. Where I live in Hong Kong, normal life has more or less ground to a…

bubmagFebruary 5, 2020

Little Red Riding Hood

18 Stunningly Beautiful Children’s Books For Storytime

When I was a kid, my mom and I had a nightly routine. First we’d brush my teeth and braid my hair, then I’d go over to my bookshelf and pick out something for her to read to me. She’d tuck me in and settle down next to me, tilting…

bubmagFebruary 5, 2020

Bootleg Peddler

Argentina’s ‘little trees’ blossom as forex controls fuel black market

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - On the streets of Buenos Aires, money changers known as “arbolitos” or “little trees” are taking advantage of Argentina’s capital controls to take a slice of a booming black market trade in U.S. dollars. An illegal money changer known as "arbolito", or little tree, holds an…

bubmagFebruary 5, 2020

Refugees Welcome

Ewald Lienen: Football Rebel for Future

German football veteran Ewald Lienen is convinced that football is political and bears social responsibility. Today, the technical director of FC St. Pauli is committed to climate protection, and not only on the pitch. Lienen shows like none other in Germany that football and social commitment go together. “I’ve always been…

bubmagFebruary 5, 2020

Armed Robot

The Ancient Waterways of Phoenix, Arizona

Bruce Berger | A Desert Harvest | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | March 2019 | 25 minutes (4,980 words) As Mars was once thought to be, Phoenix is crisscrossed by canals. Except for what remains of its desert setting, canals may be Phoenixs most distinguishing f…

bubmagFebruary 5, 2020

Hrant Dink

Roving revolutionaries

On a day like any other, in early 20th-century Tbilisi, the skilled bomb-maker Rostom runs into his wife on the street. Eghsapet, surprised by the sight of her long-absent husband, asks: ‘When did you arrive?’ Most likely rushing to meet his comrades, Rostom stops and responds: ‘It’s been seven days…

bubmagFebruary 5, 2020

Auschwitz-Birkenau

Auschwitz and “Intrinsic Evil”

Seventy-five years ago, on January 27, 1945, the infantrymen of the Red Army’s 322nd Rifle Division were bludgeoning their way into the Third Reich when they discovered the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camps. The German inventors of industrialized mass slaughter had cleared out earlier, forcing some 60,000 prisoners deemed capable of slave…

bubmagFebruary 5, 2020

Mass Tourism

Bhutan to impose ‘sustainable development fee’ on Indian tourists

Bhutan is introducing a "sustainable development fee" for regional tourists following a rise in Indian visitors that has sparked worries for the unique Himalayan kingdom's cherished ecology. The majority of tourists already cough up $250 a day in high season…

bubmagFebruary 5, 2020

In Alibaba’s hometown, a grim message: ‘don’t go out’

PornHub Continues its March to the Mainstream as Streaming Stars Make Fashion Week Debut

5 Books About Pandemics That Will Help You Understand Coronavirus

18 Stunningly Beautiful Children’s Books For Storytime

Argentina’s ‘little trees’ blossom as forex controls fuel black market

Ewald Lienen: Football Rebel for Future

The Ancient Waterways of Phoenix, Arizona

Roving revolutionaries

Auschwitz and “Intrinsic Evil”

Bhutan to impose ‘sustainable development fee’ on Indian tourists

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