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    It's just so over the top

    Postbag, Published on 17/03/2024

    » Re: "Even Photoshop can't erase royals' latest PR blunder", (Commentary, March 13).

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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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    Life and death on the Dnieper River

    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.

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    Righting the ship

    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".

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    Tiny literary shoots take root

    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books became buzzy television series, she was an undergraduate student at Trinity College Dublin with a growing pile of unpublished poems and no contacts in the writing world.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.

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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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    The home makeover from hell

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/06/2022

    » Millions of viewers, eager for a Cinderella story with real estate as the central character, watch televised home renovation shows to see troubled houses transformed into showstoppers.

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    US govt whistleblower Snowden: Who is he?

    Published on 10/06/2013

    » After string of jobs with CIA, Snowden turns around & reveals US govt secret collection of info on US citizens (email, video, chat, videos, photos, file transfers, logins, social networks.

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    Social media the theatre of 'Information World War'

    News, Published on 19/12/2018

    » A year ago, in his annual New Year's resolution post, Mark Zuckerberg pledged to spend 2018 fixing Facebook by addressing foreign manipulation, election interference and other threats. He and other tech leaders should probably renew that vow for 2019, and 2020, and possibly every year after that.

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    Asia's century, China's year

    Asia focus, Published on 30/12/2019

    » Way back when 1999 was winding down, pundits were telling us that the Asian Century was about to dawn. That prediction has not yet been fully realised, but few would disagree that 2019 belonged to China. Over the past 12 months, the top headlines have been about the bruising trade war with America, defiant protests in Hong Kong against Beijing's tightening grip, and the rise of a surveillance state that is herding hundreds of thousands into "re-education" camps on its western fringes. Below, the Asia Focus team looks back on a busy and sometimes troubling 2019.

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