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Singapore

Asian-tiger governments are steering their economies with a lighter touch

FOR AN OPERATION that originated in Singapore, it was improbably grim and bloody. Last month Jack and 49 others boarded a transport aeroplane and parachuted onto an island. Their mission was simple: kill or be killed. Jack picked up grenades and worked his wa…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Food Industry

How I Get By: A Week In The Life Of A McDonald’s Cashier

Cierra Brown estimates her commute to work would only take about 25 minutes if she had a car. Thats part of the reason she returned to McDonalds in January: Her car had broken down and she needed money. But at McDonalds, Brown only earns $9.50 per hour as a c…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Little Red Riding Hood

Now That’s What I Call a Bedtime Story: F*cked Up Fairytales of Yore

Der Struwwelpeter: Struwwelpeter / Wikipedia Its lights out for boring bedtime stories. Bye bye to the tired tropes of fairytale princesses, and errant children who somehow pull off the craziest stunts unscathed I mean, can we just point out that Hansel and…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Protectionism

Trump’s trade wars were supposed to rescue US manufacturing and agriculture. But his policies have made them significantly worse.

Jeff Swensen / Stringer President Trump is suiting up to be "Tariff Man" once again. A year ago, Trump proclaimed himself a "Tariff Man" in a tweetstorm about the trade war with China. He raged about trading practices that threatened American prosperity and…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Little Red Riding Hood

Tell Me A Story takes us on a dark journey through some of our favorite childhood fables

Forget everything you thought you knew about fairytales, because Tell Me A Story is about to turn your favorite childhood fables on their head.. The new season introduces us to very different versions of Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, …

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Air Pollution

Air Pollution May Affect Crime, But the Problem Goes Deeper Than That

Back in September, as youth around the world took to the streets for the Global Climate Strike, high schoolers in Richmond, California were dealing with the trauma of a shooting outside De Anza High School on the same day 17-year-old Petelavanh Owen Syharath …

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Global Warming

Hungry North Pole explorers Horn and Ousland near end of epic trek

Image copyrightAFPImage caption The Norwegian research ship Lance is about two days' trek from the explorers Two explorers are short of food and battling strong winds after trekking hundreds of miles at the North Pole, but they hope to reach safety soon. …

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Bees

Minecraft’s Buzzy Bees update is coming on December 11

Whats one thing that you can expect plenty of in every update of Minecraft? Bugs. And this update will be full of themalthough this time we’re talking about the good ones, the buzzy kind that happens to be a critical part of the earths natural ecosystem. And …

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Viral video shows people climbing up the new US-Mexico border wall and sliding down the other side

A video showing three people scaling a newly installed section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall with only a makeshift rope ladder is making the rounds on the internet. The video was posted to Twitter by photojournalist J. Omar Ornelas with the caption: "This i…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Yellow Vests

From Algeria to Hong Kong, a year of anti-establishment rage

Paris (AFP) - Angry citizens have swelled the streets of cities across the globe this year, pushing back against a disparate range of policies but often expressing a common grievance -- the establishment's failure to heed their demands for a more equitable fu…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Asian-tiger governments are steering their economies with a lighter touch

How I Get By: A Week In The Life Of A McDonald’s Cashier

Now That’s What I Call a Bedtime Story: F*cked Up Fairytales of Yore

Trump’s trade wars were supposed to rescue US manufacturing and agriculture. But his policies have made them significantly worse.

Tell Me A Story takes us on a dark journey through some of our favorite childhood fables

Air Pollution May Affect Crime, But the Problem Goes Deeper Than That

Hungry North Pole explorers Horn and Ousland near end of epic trek

Minecraft’s Buzzy Bees update is coming on December 11

Viral video shows people climbing up the new US-Mexico border wall and sliding down the other side

From Algeria to Hong Kong, a year of anti-establishment rage

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