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Pearl farm shows nature's artistry at work
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 18/06/2023
» It was raining hard, with blustery winds roiling the sea -- unusual conditions on the spring day when I visited the Mikimoto Tatoku Pearl Farm in this coastal city on Japan's main island of Honshu.
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Myanmar's young pro-democracy activists fill up prisons
Published on 14/06/2023
» MAE SOT: Police in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, came for Min Thwe Thit before dawn on Feb 1, 2021. He did not know why they had come — or what was unfolding in the Southeast Asian nation.
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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books became buzzy television series, she was an undergraduate student at Trinity College Dublin with a growing pile of unpublished poems and no contacts in the writing world.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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Inside a nasty newspaper war
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 19/03/2023
» They say that print is dead and local news is dying. But in the small patch of lower Manhattan that is Greenwich Village, there are four local newspapers vying for supremacy. Here, print is very much alive.
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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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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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Social media use linked to brain changes
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 22/01/2023
» The effect of social media use on children is a fraught area of research as parents and policymakers try to ascertain the results of a vast experiment already in full swing. Successive studies have added pieces to the puzzle, fleshing out the implications of a nearly constant stream of virtual interactions beginning in childhood.
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Unlocking old audio from 1900s
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 22/01/2023
» The first recording, swathed in sheets of distortion, was nonetheless recognisable as a child's voice -- small, nervous, encouraged by his father -- wishing a very Merry Christmas to whoever was listening.
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German socialite financed own demise
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.
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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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