Tag: global
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Platforms are hiring gig workers around the world to write steamy romance novels for English-speaking readers. The emerging web novel industry spans the globe, taking a business model from Asia,… more ›
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Abidjan, Dakar and Paris: the Ivory Coast-based art gallery owner Cécile Fakhoury today runs three eponymous spaces in three different world capitals dedicated to artists from the African continent, defending… more ›
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Before the invasion of Ukraine, private jets taking off from Moscow flew to Paris, Milan and Geneva more often than anywhere else. Departures from Russia, Feb. 1 to Feb. 24.… more ›
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There are certainly enough of them. He says he has five phones, two encrypted, and he’s forever pecking away, issuing pronunciamentos with incontinent abandon—after midnight; during commercial breaks for his… more ›
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Researchers can now design and mass-produce genetic material — a technique that helped build the mRNA vaccines. Today Twist charges nine cents a base pair for DNA, a nearly tenfold… more ›
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The National Bank of Haiti, on which so many hopes were pinned that night, was national in name only. Far from an instrument of Haiti’s salvation, the central bank was,… more ›
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Violence. Tragedy. Hunger. Underdevelopment. These bywords have clung to Haiti for more than a century. Kidnappings. Outbreaks. Earthquakes. The president assassinated — this time in his bedroom. How is it… more ›
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For the world’s viruses, this is a time of unprecedented opportunity. An estimated 40,000 viruses lurk in the bodies of mammals, of which a quarter could conceivably infect humans. Most… more ›