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Egypt Expels French Journalist in a Rare Move Against Foreign Media - The New York Times - 0 views

  • The journalist, Rémy Pigaglio, had worked in Egypt for almost two years and had residency permits and media accreditation that allowed him to do so legally
  • reluctant to take action against foreign journalists,
  • “stressed the importance of increasing Egyptian-French efforts to reveal the circumstances”
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  • Egypt signed a deal to buy $1 billion of French weapons, as well as agreeing to commercial agreements.
  • “All French correspondents in Egypt find unacceptable the growing repression
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Voices From China's Cultural Revolution - The New York Times - 0 views

  • ademics and writers who witnessed the Cultural Revolution.
  • At the time, no one really knew who was for or against the revolution.
  • If there had been no Cultural Revolution, then I would not be who I am today.
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  • It wasn’t the manual labor. That’s a different kind of hardship. This was the worst kind of bitterness.
  • ou will have no future in this place. You will not have a good job. Everyone looks down on you.”That burden, that burden on your spirit, is very heavy.
  • Even before the Cultural Revolution, there were divisions in our class over family background.
  • After the Cultural Revolution broke out, they were also the ones who formed the first Red Guard group.
  • One night these rebels – Red Guards – burst into the apartment, turning everything inside out
  • At Tsinghua High School I also saw students and teachers who were beaten up, or had their hair shaved off.
  • But the hospital said they didn’t treat this kind of cow demon and snake spirit,
  • They said that because of my family background I could never love socialism and the Communist Party.
  • Struggle sessions, when people were accused of political crimes, publicly humiliated and subject to verbal and physical abuse by a crowd, were a frequent occurrence during the Cultural Revolution
  • People who didn’t experience the Cultural Revolution only know that a large number of officials were persecuted,
  • They treat one-sidedly extolling the achievements of the past as a “positive energy” to be exalted, and they treat exposing and reflecting on the mistakes of history as a “negative energy” to be beaten down.
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Infection Raises Specter of Superbugs Resistant to All Antibiotics - The New York Times - 0 views

  • dentified the first patient in the United States to be infected with bacteria that are resistant to an antibiotic
  • superbugs that could cause untreatable infections,
  • The resistance can spread
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  • We have that genetic element that would allow for bacteria that are resistant to every antibiotic.”
  • colistin
  • We are one step away from CRE strains that cannot be treated with antibiotics.
  • overuse of antibiotics in people and in animals put human health at risk by reducing the power of the drugs,
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The Water in Your Glass Might Be Older Than the Sun - The New York Times - 0 views

  • Earth is old. The sun is old. But do you know what may be even older than both? Water.
  • more than 4.6 billion years ago.
  • That means the same liquid we drink and that fills the oceans may be millions of years older than the solar system itself.
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  • researchers analyzed water molecules in oceans for indicators of their ancient past.
  • “heavy water.” Water, as you know, is made up of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. But some water molecules contain hydrogen’s chunky twin, deuterium. (It contains a neutron in its nucleus, whereas regular hydrogen does not.)
  • They concluded that remnants of that ancient ice remain scattered across the solar system: on the moon, in comets, at Mercury’s poles, in the remains of Mars’ melts, on Jupiter’s moon Europa — and even in your water bottle.
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