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A powerful Irish film about the Great Famine arrives in British cinemas
mewould be t it is wrong to say that the Irish do not remember the great famine. Since Ireland gained independence from the United Kingdom a century ago,…
“The” human genome was always a mistake
The a person The genome project, which published its results 20 years ago last month, is a landmark in biology. It was also called something fake. After all,…
Are America’s regional banks over the worst of it?
mmeal people paying attention to America's regional banks than ever before. But it is difficult to calculate the state of their balance sheets. Recent data…
How to recruit with softer skills in mind
Sskills important to employers. Writing in Harvard Business Review last year, Raffaella Sadun of Harvard Business School and her co-authors analyzed nearly…
China needs foreign workers. So why doesn’t he accept immigration?
For hundreds For years China could boast that it has more people than any other country. The title became official in the 1950s, when the UN began to collect…
Will Japan fight? | The Economist
THE ROAR of the Japanese F-35 fighter jets over Misawa, in northern Japan, are terrifying. At the base, which houses the Japanese and American forces, pilots…
Russia and Iran are upgrading their transport links
Esince then a French diplomat and developer, Ferdinand de Lesseps, slid the Suez canal through Egypt in 1869, connecting east and west, many Middle…
Santiago Peña, a former economist, is the next president of Paraguay
Punits predicted tight race. In the end, it wasn't even close. Santiago Peña, a 44-year-old former finance minister and economist at the IMF, he took almost…
What America’s small banks do that big ones don’t
cANANDAIGUA AND Manhattan's Chinatown is about as different from each other as two places in the same state can be. One is a small town in the bucolic Finger…
Emmanuel Macron hopes to reinvent himself in 100 days
Dpray his The first bold bid for the presidency of France, in 2017, Emmanuel Macron used to mock supporters at campaign rallies who jeered when he looked at his…