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Why Russian women fly to Argentina to give birth
ATHE RGENTINA IS has always been a country of immigrants. In the 19th century, millions of Italians and Spaniards came to plow the country's fields. Recently…
Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of “Rebecca” is slow and interesting
DAPHNE DU MAURIER's gothic bestseller, "Rebecca", tells the story of an innocent young woman who meets a wealthy widow in Monte Carlo. After a whirlwind…
Can coach companies attract business people on board?
In the past, coach travel was seen as glamorous. Perhaps that is a strange legacy of the 1934 Clark Gable film "It Happened One Night", about a romance between…
Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom won the Nobel Prize for economic sciences
You and I MUST open a lemonade stand together. We agree that I will bring the materials we need (cups, stands and so on) while you make the lemonade. I will…
Ireland is struggling with Catholicism as the religion is increasing
WHEN Pope Francis' visit to Ireland ends this weekend, people around the world will have picked up mixed messages about a country long revered as a cradle of…
A judge blocks the closing of Missouri’s only abortion clinic
In 2008 Missouri had five abortion clinics. Today the state has one, which has 6m residents - more than 1m of whom are women of childbearing age. On May 31, a…
The Greenspan Legacy | The Economist
More than ten years have passed since Alan Greenspan retired from the Federal Reserve; a decade that hasn't been kind to his reputation. Having just read…
The “emergency brake” is only symbolic, but it might work
HE told you a lot about David Cameron's dinner in London last night with Donald Tusk that the media couldn't decide afterwards whether it was a coup or a…
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is a passing cloud over clean energy
MarketsHeard on the StreetSVB has been important for clean energy, but Japanese and European banks have traditionally been big lenders
Meta plans to lay off 10,000 workers in latest round of job cuts
technologyCEO Mark Zuckerberg, in an email to employees, talks about the benefits of a leaner organization