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2023 - 6 - 28

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Council gives final green light to creation of EU drugs agency (EU News)

The Council today adopted a legislative act which will replace the existing European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) with a European ...

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Ágota Kristóf and the Uses of Illiteracy (The New Yorker)

The Hungarian novelist deployed her estrangement from language as a form of protection, both for herself and for her readers.

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DENR's reforestation goal: Up to 2M hectares of land during Marcos ... (Philstar.com)

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources stressed that partnerships are needed to meet the government's reforestation goals.

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Council of Cardinal meets to discuss ongoing Synod, child protection (Vatican News)

Pope Francis holds a two-day meeting with the Council of Cardinals to reflect on the diocesan implementation of 'Praedicate evangelium', the upcoming ...

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62% of Philippine families own house, lot they occupy – PSA (Philstar.com)

Three in every five or 62 percent of families in the Philippines own the house and lot they occupied last year, according to the Philippine Statistics ...

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The people making money from the pain of soaring prices (BBC News)

The BBC gains exclusive access to illegal moneylenders who are charging interest rates of up to 50%.

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Majority of Filipinos view gays, lesbians as trustworthy, contributors ... (Philstar.com)

A recent survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations revealed an increase in Filipinos' trust and acceptance of gays and lesbians.

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Bank of America CEO: Inflation could hit Fed's 2% target by 2025 (CNN International)

US inflation could hit the Federal Reserve's 2% target in 2025, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan told CNN in an exclusive interview Tuesday.

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Deputy Sec-Gen of ASEAN receives courtesy call from ROK ... (ASEAN)

Today, Deputy Secretary-General Tran Duc Binh received a courtesy call by the newly-appointed ROK Ambassador to ASEAN Lee Jang-keun.

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Invitation letter by President Charles Michel to the members of the ... (EU News)

President Michel invited the members of the European Council to the meeting of 29-30 June 2023. EU leaders will first hold an exchange of views with NATO ...

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Fiandre Architectural Surfaces' ceramic surface lines interior of One ... (Dezeen)

The interior of One Za'abeel The Residences, a soon-to-complete skyscraper in Dubai, has been fitted out with ceramic surfaces from Italian brand Fiandre ...

Permanent speed limit reduction for part of Haleakalā Highway (Hawaii Department of Transportation)

KULA – The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation (HDOT) notifies Maui motorists that the posted speed limit on Haleakalā Highway (Route 37) between milepost ...

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Chinese Workers Confront the Curse of 35 (The New York Times)

It's widely discussed in China: Employers don't want you after 35. Some job listings say it plainly, leaving a generation of prime-age workers feeling ...

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Diokno wants to get rid of POGOs despite possible revenue shortfall (Philstar.com)

POGOs, as it is, generate guaranteed revenues for the Philippine government but some have criticized its links to money laundering and crime syndicates.

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Religious Freedom Arguments Underpin Wave of Challenges to ... (The New York Times)

In lawsuits challenging state abortion bans, lawyers for abortion rights plaintiffs are employing religious liberty arguments the Christian right has used ...

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Harvey Carey honored by TNT Tropang Giga with retirement of no. 4 ... (ESPN)

Harvey Carey, the quintessential role player who spent his entire PBA career -- spanning 17 seasons and 728 games -- with the TNT franchise was honored ...

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The History of the Roman Baths (ArchDaily)

Roman thermal baths were public bath complexes, although there were other activities related to them. Although this program existed from Greek antiquity (around ...

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Global Head of Natural Resources | AGCS (Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty)

Anthony Vassallo has been appointed Global Head of Natural Resources at AGCS, reporting to Global Head of Specialty, Gordon Browne.

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Emissions of key air pollutants continue to decline across the EU ... (European Environment Agency)

However, the most problematic area remains reducing ammonia emissions, emitted mostly by the agriculture sector. The latest annual European Environment Agency ( ...

The Crises of Heat and Smoke Share a Common Thread: Climate ... (The New York Times)

Human-caused climate change is making high temperatures more common and intensifying dryness that fuels catastrophic wildfires.

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Handling of cargo samples (Skuld)

Pure acids or basic cargoes (e.g., sulphuric acid, phosphoric acid, or caustic soda) should be kept in plastic bottles (type HDPE). The reason for this is that ...

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Majorities of Americans Prioritize Renewable Energy, Back Steps to ... (Pew Research Center)

A new Pew Research Center survey finds large shares of Americans support the United States taking steps to address global climate change and back an energy ...

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Philippines pushes resumption of EU FTA talks (Philstar.com)

The Philippines continues to push for the resumption of negotiations for a free trade agreement with the European Union , saying this will provide a more ...

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Pope Pius XII on 'mothers and fathers of families' (Vatican News)

Our Editorial Director reflects on the 80th anniversary of the publication of Pope Pius XII's encyclical “Mystici Corporis”, which describes the ...

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Does 'And Just Like That …' Signal the End of Stealth Wealth? (The New York Times)

Scattered. Carrie after self-medicating with a Bergdorf Goodman shopping spree.Credit...Craig Blankenhorn/HBO Max.

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Winner of the IATA and AWS Diversity & Inclusion Datathon ... (IATA)

IATA and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that SMBC Aviation Capital is the winner of the first IATA and AWS Diversity & Inclusion Datathon.

Falls of Clyde Update (Hawaii Department of Transportation)

HONOLULU – The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation (HDOT) is working to redevelop Pier 7 at Honolulu Harbor which has been vacant and inactive for the last ...

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How to laugh in the face of sorrow: Insights from a Lebanese sweets ... (NPR)

When the civil war broke out in Lebanon in 1975, Nassim Haddad was running three restaurants. One of them, al-Tannour, was on the road to the airport ...

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Scientists Thrill at First Hints of Cosmic 'Hum' from Giant ... (Scientific American)

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the ...

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Scientists Find Evidence for Slow-Rolling Sea of Gravitational Waves (Caltech)

Scientists are reporting the first evidence that our Earth and the universe around us are awash in a background of spacetime undulations called ...

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15 Years of Radio Data Reveals Evidence of Space-Time Murmur (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Scientists have found evidence of a universal background of gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of space-time.

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Long-sought hum of gravitational waves from giant black holes ... (Science)

By turning networks of dead stars into galaxy-size gravitational wave detectors, radio astronomers have tuned into the slowly undulating swells in spacetime ...

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The gravitational wave background of the universe has been heard ... (Space.com)

In a historic first, astronomers have detected low-frequency gravitational waves using a galaxy-sized antenna of millisecond pulsars in the Milky Way.

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Scientists have finally 'heard' the chorus of gravitational waves that ... (Associated Press)

Scientists have observed for the first time the faint ripples caused by the motion of black holes that are gently stretching and squeezing everything in the ...

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After 15 years, pulsar timing yields evidence of cosmic gravitational ... (UC Berkeley)

Artist's interpretation of an array of pulsars being affected by gravitational ripples produced by a supermassive black hole binary in a distant galaxy.

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Colossal gravitational waves—trillions of miles long—found for the ... (National Geographic)

Detected by studying rapidly spinning dead stars, these giant ripples of spacetime likely came from merging supermassive black holes—and they may reveal ...

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Astrophysicists present first evidence of gravitational wave ... (Yale News)

A quintet of new studies offers the first direct evidence of a gravitational wave background, confirming standard models of black hole growth.

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Advice to academics for having a productive summer of writing ... (Inside Higher Ed)

You need to know that it will never go quite as planned and learn to lean into pleasure, advises Mary Anne Lewis Cusato. In early May, I began writing this ...

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Studies at the intersection of equity, computing, and education (MIT News)

MIT graduate student Cecilé Sadler brings STEM and coding activities developed by MIT's Lifelong Kindergarten group to the Cambridge-based grassroots ...

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