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Sunday Spotlight, Published on 25/12/2022
» In the permafrost at the northern edge of Greenland, scientists have discovered the oldest known fragments of DNA, offering an extraordinary look at an extraordinary ancient ecosystem.
Life, New York Times, Published on 23/03/2022
» A rare piece of Marvel history, a publisher's annotated copy of the first Marvel comic book, sold at auction last week for US$2.4 million (80.7 million baht).
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/07/2023
» Perhaps you are one of the more than 5,000 subscribers to "Popping Tins," an email newsletter devoted exclusively to tinned seafood. Perhaps you belong to a tinned-fish-of-the-month club, or have leafed through a tinned-fish-focused cookbook that tells you how best to cook a food already cooked.
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 28/05/2023
» The thunder of artillery echoes night and day over the mighty Dnieper River as it winds its way through southern Ukraine. With Russian and Ukrainian forces squared off on opposite banks, fighters have replaced fishermen, surveillance drones circle overhead and mines line the marshy embankments.
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/04/2023
» Before Sally Rooney was the author of bestselling books, and well before those books became buzzy television series, she was an undergraduate student at Trinity College Dublin with a growing pile of unpublished poems and no contacts in the writing world. Her first break came in 2010, when The Stinging Fly, a small Irish literary magazine, agreed to publish her work.
Business, Published on 31/01/2020
» Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc agreed on Wednesday to sell its newspaper business to Lee Enterprises Inc for $140 million in cash, abandoning an industry the billionaire investor had long defended even as its financial prospects deteriorated.
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 11/12/2022
» Late in the summer of 1938, as the Nazis escalated their persecution of German Jews, Ilse Hesselberger and her daughter, Trudy, travelled from Munich to Milan to visit relatives.
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 19/03/2023
» Two years ago, when Conde Nast announced that Margaret Zhang would be the next editor-in-chief of Vogue China, many in the fashion media were taken aback.
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 19/03/2023
» The dinner theatre is now a day care centre, where children rifle through boxes of donated toys. The beauty salon has turned into a one-man barbershop.
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/10/2022
» Millions of dollars in advertisements blasting schools for teaching critical race theory and assailing corporations like BlackRock for catering to "woke politicians".