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    All things in Harmony

    Life, Published on 14/11/2023

    » Barry Manilow is superstitious. Such a statement may come as a surprise to anyone familiar with the 80-year-old pop legend's career, with decades of hits, endless Las Vegas residencies and international fame as a still-smooth crooner who wrote the songs that made the whole world sing.

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    Consultancy 'warp' drive deepens crisis of capitalism

    News, Published on 13/03/2023

    » In recent years, McKinsey & Company has become a household name -- but for all the wrong reasons. One of the "Big Three" consulting firms, its work for major corporations and governments has increasingly become a source of scandal and intrigue around the world.

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    Suppressed culture makes bestseller

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 19/02/2023

    » Two days after Christmas, Ann-Helen Laestadius found herself being gently pummelled by reindeer.

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    Let pupils design uniforms

    News, Postbag, Published on 06/11/2022

    » Re: "Casual dress allowed at college exams," (BP, Nov 5).

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    Embalming, the dying science

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 20/11/2022

    » Walk down two flights of stairs at the back entrance of the James Hunt Funeral Home in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and you reach a white-walled, linoleum-floored, fluorescently lit room, a liminal space that provides the beginning of an answer to one of the oldest and most confounding questions of the human experience: What happens to us when we die?

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    Honour models for democracy

    News, Editorial, Published on 18/12/2022

    » Since the 1998 ouster of the dictator Suharto -- who ruled Indonesia with an iron fist for over three decades -- the world's fourth most populous nation has undergone a series of rapid changes. Once dependent on foreign aid to exercise its basic functions, Indonesia has firmly established itself as a major economic player in the Asia-Pacific region, with the distinction of being the only Southeast Asian economy to be included in the Group of 20.

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    Are trees talking underground?

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 27/11/2022

    » Justine Karst, a mycologist at the University of Alberta, feared things had gone too far when her son got home from eighth grade and told her he had learned that trees could talk to each other through underground networks.

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    Ancient Greeks outsourced battles

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 20/11/2022

    » Wherever there is an out-of-the-way war, there will be mercenaries -- hired fighters whose only common bond may be a hunger for adventure. Some join foreign armies or rebel forces because they believe in the cause; others sign on because the price is right.

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    Revisiting the 'Mona Lisa' theft

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/10/2022

    » Oct 8 was the anniversary of the birth -- and the death -- of the Italian painter who made perhaps the biggest art repatriation blunder in history.

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    The populist climate threat

    Oped, Published on 04/10/2022

    » Reactionary populism is now the biggest obstacle to tackling climate change. With outright climate denial no longer an option, populist politicians have increasingly positioned themselves as climate doubters and delayers, and this new approach is proving to be quite insidious. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that global greenhouse-gas emissions must peak within three years to keep the Paris agreement's 1.5° Celsius target in reach; by slowing effective action, the tactics of today's populists are becoming an existential threat.

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