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Tears, anger on 'Joola' sinking anniversary
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/10/2022
» Up on the deck, dozens of university students played cards. In the first-class cabins below, passengers watched the movie Air Force One. In an overcrowded third-class compartment, a teenage football team on its way to a tournament belted out songs.
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'White Lotus' actor would do it all again
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 25/12/2022
» Not long ago, venerable actor F Murray Abraham wanted to get lunch at a favourite restaurant in Greenwich Village. Unfortunately, the place was overrun by New York University students shooting a film.
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Are scientific breakthroughs on the decline?
News, Published on 27/12/2023
» This year had barely begun when scientists got some jolting news. On Jan 4, a paper appeared in Nature claiming that disruptive scientific findings have been waning since 1945. An accompanying graph showed all fields on a steep downhill slide.
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Modern medicine in ancient Rome
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/07/2023
» Doctors are generally held in high regard today, but Romans of the first century were sceptical, even scornful, of medical practitioners, many of whom ministered to ailments they did not understand. Poets especially ridiculed surgeons for being greedy, for taking sexual advantage of patients and, above all, for incompetence.
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Medical care, one ship at a time
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 05/02/2023
» Jeoung Byeong-deok remembered how a grateful old woman waited on the pier so she could wave goodbye when his ship pulled away from the island.
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FTX saga shows not all ends justify means
Oped, Peter Singer, Published on 30/11/2022
» In the wake of the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, and amid reports that FTX's founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, diverted billions of dollars of clients' funds, some observers have linked the alleged financial malpractice to ideas widely held within the "effective altruism" movement, which Mr Bankman-Fried says inspired him. More specifically, they point to the ethical view that the end justifies the means.
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How to run a fashion magazine in China
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.
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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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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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Bill Nighy, master of misdirection
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 29/01/2023
» British actor Bill Nighy was trying to describe how he prepared for his character in the new drama Living. He plays Mr Williams, a buttoned-up, almost catatonically reticent bureaucrat in post-World War II London who, upon learning that he is dying, decides finally to live.
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