So how, on the eve of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s summit Wednesday with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, did as many as 30 North Korean soldiers wander over the line separating North from South, causing South Korea to fire warning shots before the North Koreans ...
Yuqi:We wanted to use that to tell people that everyone is getting judgments and everyone is getting those comments. It’s not because we are famous and because we are singers that [this doesn’t happen to us]. So we just wanted to tell people to not care about it. And abo...
What did China do and why? China has banned, in principle, exports to the United States of gallium, germanium and antimony—critical minerals needed to make advanced semiconductors, among many other types of equipment. Beijing also tightened controls on exports of graphite, which is use...
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Epic didn't exactly handle such an outlier with the utmost sensitivity. Not only did they instruct producers to meddle with Dakila's self-titled debut behind the group's backs, they also released first single "El Dùbi" with a patronizing spoken word in...
Coming out of the gate this summer,the Harris camp seemed determined to toss aside the Biden playbook. Where the sitting president’s rhetoric made Trumpbigger,talking about him as an existential threat to democracy, Harris’ rhetoric did the opposite: It focused on making Trumpsmaller, ...
did not assume an overall character of "natural philosophy" as it did among the Greeks -- despite Gārgī Vācaknavī herself remembered as a "natural philosopher." Whatever Gārgī Vācaknavī's historicity, her example will provide little of value to Regan Penaluna beyond the (unique?) ...
When we did stalks, [the instructors] would have us get up to within 150 meters of the objective. In the real world, you would never get that close to an objective. The real world is actually a lot easier." Anywhere, any time, snipers are prepared to use their specialized skills to...
As the global nuclear arsenal swelled, so, too, did our dread of the breed of war we might unleash with it. As scientists researched the possible ramifications of such a conflict, a new term entered the public vernacular: nuclear winter. If the sight of a mushroom cloud burning above the...
Can the Asian Miracle Happen in Africa? BY BILL GATES ON DECEMBER 8, 2014 I read Joe Studwell’s How Asia Works because it claimed to answer two of the greatest questions in development economics: How did countries like Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and China achieve sustained, high growth...
So how did these countries escape the grip of Hollywood? And how far has Russia traveled in this direction over the past year? Read more War, fatalism, even some heavy drinking: Here are the modern movies you should watch to understand the mysterious ‘Russian soul’ ...