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New York City

Carol Lynley, Star of ‘Blue Denim’ and ‘The Poseidon Adventure,’ Dies at 77

Carole Ann Jones was born in New York City on Feb. 13, 1942. A child of divorce, she began modeling under the name Carolyn Lee. When she went into acting appearing on golden-age-of-television series like Goodyear Television Playhouse and The Alcoa Hour that n…

bubmagSeptember 6, 2019

Panda

Calls to name Berlin zoo’s panda cubs ‘Hong and Kong’ spark German national debate on China

Published: 12:17pm, 6 Sep, 2019 Updated: 12:21pm, 6 Sep, 2019

bubmagSeptember 6, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Jane Addams (1860)

Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace. Beside presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow W…

bubmagSeptember 6, 2019

Grexit

Brexit and the Prison House of Nations

Bulldogs are notorious for their tenacity or cool persistency of purpose, as Honest Abe said of General Grant, He has the grip of a bulldog; when he once gets his teeth in, nothing can shake him off. The EU master class could give the doggies a lockjaw master…

bubmagSeptember 6, 2019

Water Pollution

Not all meat is created equal: How diet changes can sustain world’s food production

IMAGE: In this model of how phosphorus flows through the agricultural system, "knobs " can be turned up or down to create different conservation scenarios. When a knob is turned -- e.g.... view more Credit: Stevens Institute of Technology If you wanted t…

bubmagSeptember 6, 2019

Belt and Road

The Conundrum at the Heart of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

What is more important for China's Belt and Road Initiative: providing energy security in developing countriesor cutting out coal? That question was at the heart of a roundtable Friday at Fortune's Global Sustainability Forum in Yunnan, China. On the one ha…

bubmagSeptember 6, 2019

Alibaba

Alibaba acquires NetEase Kaola for $2 billion

1 min read (Image credit: NetEase Kaola) Alibaba Group announced today that it has acquired NetEases cross-border e-commerce unit Kaola for approximately $2 billion, and along with Yunfeng Capital will take a minority stake in NetEase Cloud Music for $700 mi…

bubmagSeptember 6, 2019

Alibaba

Alibaba to buy luxury e-commerce business from Netease for US$2 billion

SHANGHAI: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd will buy e-commerce business Kaola from Chinese gaming company NetEase Inc for US$2 billion, adding a platform that specializes in supplying luxury goods from abroad to Chinese consumers. The long-rumoured deal comes as Ch…

bubmagSeptember 6, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

Defying the Nuclear Sword

“. . . and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.” These lost words – Isaiah 2:4 – are nearly 3,000 years old. Did they ever have…

bubmagSeptember 6, 2019

AR-15

Beto O’Rourke takes on Meghan McCain over gun rights amid gun control debate after mass shootings

"The View" co-host Meghan McCain says she is "not living without guns." She added there will be "a lot of violence" if assault weapons are banned. USA TODAY WASHINGTON -- Former Texas Rep. and Democratic presidential candidate Beto ORourke is pushing back …

bubmagSeptember 6, 2019

Carol Lynley, Star of ‘Blue Denim’ and ‘The Poseidon Adventure,’ Dies at 77

Calls to name Berlin zoo’s panda cubs ‘Hong and Kong’ spark German national debate on China

Jane Addams (1860)

Brexit and the Prison House of Nations

Not all meat is created equal: How diet changes can sustain world’s food production

The Conundrum at the Heart of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Alibaba acquires NetEase Kaola for $2 billion

Alibaba to buy luxury e-commerce business from Netease for US$2 billion

Defying the Nuclear Sword

Beto O’Rourke takes on Meghan McCain over gun rights amid gun control debate after mass shootings

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