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The World's Greatest Fears, Mapped by Country - 0 views
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This article includes a map of the world, depicting the spread of fear of different global issues across the world. China is greatly worried about the high levels of pollution in its major cities, like Beijing. The Japanese are most fearful of nuclear weapons, which is unsurprising to many, recognizing their geographic position with Russia and the Koreas. The U.S. and Europe are deeply concerned with inequality.
Persian (or Arabian) Gulf Is Caught in the Middle of Regional Rivalries - The New York ... - 0 views
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Tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia have been escalating on many fronts — over wars in Syria and Yemen, the Saudis’ execution of a dissident Shiite cleric and the Iran nuclear deal. The dispute runs so deep that the regional rivals — one a Shiite theocracy, the other a Sunni monarchy — even clash over the name of the body of water that separates them.
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Iran insists that it be called the Persian Gulf, and has banned publications that fail to use that name. Yet this riles Arab nations, which have succeeded in pushing various parties to use their preferred term — Arabian Gulf.
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his may be among the most minor of the disputes, but it speaks to the level of hostility and competition between the two, and is taken quite seriously by many with an interest in the region — including the United States Navy, which, for fear of alienating its regional allies, uses the term Arabian Gulf.
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Pennsylvania Chief Justice Criticizes Impeachment Moves : NPR - 0 views
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The impeachment resolutions, introduced by a Republican lawmaker, follow a tense battle over the commonwealth's redrawn congressional map, which the Democratic-majority court imposed after declaring the previous map unconstitutionally gerrymandered to favor Republicans.
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Dush first circulated his plan in early February. GOP leaders in the House were at first reluctant to talk about it, citing the fact that they hadn't discussed the matter as a caucus, but the idea found support among a number of lawmakers in the General Assembly. And in a press conference soon after the court's decision, Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey said impeachment of justices was "a conversation that has to happen."
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The new district lines are totally reshaped and renumbered, and they significantly improve Democrats' prospects. Under the 2011 map, Democrats won only five of Pennsylvania's 18 congressional seats three elections in a row — even though Donald Trump only narrowly won the state and Barack Obama won it twice.
Map Shows Where Sea Level Rise Will Drown American Cities | WIRED - 0 views
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A new map from Climate Central shows how the water will flow into hundreds of US cities under the best and worst global warming scenarios
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“One of the most astonishing things to me was finding that burning one gallon of gasoline translates to adding 400 gallons of water volume to the ocean in the long run,”
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For example, when the global atmospheric CO2 level reaches 930 gigatons, Boston will be due for about 9 feet of sea level rise. That’s enough water to cover 25 percent of the city during high tide. In the extreme cuts scenario, atmospheric CO2 never reaches that level. Under business as usual fossil emissions however, a quarter of Boston is locked into a future under water by 2045.
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Trader Joe's and other US firms suppress unionization efforts during pandemic | World n... - 0 views
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Companies, including grocery chains Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods, airport concession operators, local authorities and even a furniture company owned by the billionaire Warren Buffett have moved to control efforts to unionize as workers become increasingly concerned about workplace safety during the emergency.
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“It’s a blatant anti-union letter,” said a Trader Joe’s employee in New Jersey who requested to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. “It’s in bad taste and shows the greed this company has instead of taking proactive measures to keep the crew and customers safe.” A Trader Joe’s spokesperson told the Guardi
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As workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic have organized protests and strikes, several employers have responded by stepping up attempts to oppose unionization, repeal workers’ rights won in bargaining, and fire workers en masse who had recently publicized intent to organize a union in their workplace.
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See a Map of Vaccination Rates for New York City - The New York Times - 0 views
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Just over a hundred days into New York City’s vaccination campaign, 30 percent of adults and half of those 65 and older have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.
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White and Asian New Yorkers have been vaccinated at higher rates than Black and Latino residents, who have been more likely to die from or be hospitalized with Covid-19 both in New York City and nationwide.
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Some of the highest vaccination rates are in the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods — places where residents were most likely to leave the city at the start of the pandemic.
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Obamacare's About to Get a Lot More Affordable. These Maps Show How. - The New York Times - 0 views
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The American Rescue Plan broadens the subsidies available under the Affordable Care Act for comprehensive health insurance — increasing them for people who are already eligible, and providing new assistance for people with incomes previously too high to qualify. The top set of maps, drawn from calculations made by the Kaiser Family Foundation, show how much the changes will reduce what people pay for health insurance around the country, depending on their location and age.
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For anyone earning around $19,000, subsidies will now be generous enough to sign up for a typical plan with no monthly payment. For someone earning over $51,000, new subsidies could lower premiums by as much as $1,000 a month in the country’s most expensive markets.
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Some groups still won’t qualify for help: undocumented immigrants, and poor Americans in states that have not expanded Medicaid under an option provided by the Affordable Care Act. But a large majority of uninsured Americans can now get financial help buying insurance
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How Belarus 'hijacking' will affect flights in Europe | CNN Travel - 0 views
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In the week since Ryanair flight FR4978 from Athens to Vilnius was forcibly diverted to Minsk, travel in Europe already looks very different.
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The directive, issued Wednesday by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) under the form of a Safety Information Bulletin (SIB), called on all airlines "with their principle place of business in one of the EASA member states" to avoid Belarusian airspace. They advised that all other airlines should do the same, wherever they are based.
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There were other implications, with Russia -- an ally of Belarus -- taking several days to grant Air France and Austrian Airlines flights to Moscow the clearance to use Russian airspace to divert around Belarus, prompting cancelations.
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Something *very* important for our politics happened on Tuesday - CNNPolitics - 0 views
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While the eyes of the world were focused on the impeachment efforts against President Donald Trump in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, Gov. Larry Hogan of neighboring Maryland did something extremely important in beginning the long process of unwinding our current political polarization.
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The Republican governor announced that via executive order he had created an independent commission he will task with redrawing the state's congressional and legislative lines following the decennial reapportionment later this year.
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"This commission is the first of its kind in the long history of our state," Hogan said in making the announcement. "Unlike the partisan, backdoor manner in which our state's political power brokers have conducted the state's redistricting process, we want to make sure that this time the people of Maryland are actually the ones drawing these lines—not the politicians or the party bosses."
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Teaching w/ #DigHist in the New School Year | Perspectives on History | AHA - 0 views
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Teachers can use ORBIS, which is akin to Google Maps for ancient Rome, to lead discussions on the historical uses of data, and the way environments shape both trade and empire building.
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An incredible digitized archive of the transatlantic slave trade, Voyages offers students a chillingly immersive look at the slave trade that can foster conversations about the trade’s horrors and about the problems of visualizing tragedy.
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A review of American Panorama, a digital atlas created by the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab, discusses how #dighist offers the tools to explore the brutality of America’s economic and territorial expansions during the 19th century
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We could stop the pandemic by July 4 if the government took these steps - The Washingto... - 0 views
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We, too, favor markets and share the president’s eagerness to stop economically ruinous shutdowns.
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the choice between saving lives and saving the economy, the latter of which Trump has endorsed implicitly, is a false one.
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In fact, framing the issue that way could kill many Americans and kill the economy.
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Vladimir Putin's 20-Year March to War in Ukraine-and How the West Mishandled It - WSJ - 0 views
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For nearly two decades, the U.S. and the European Union vacillated over how to deal with the Russian leader as he resorted to increasingly aggressive steps to reassert Moscow’s dominion over Ukraine and other former Soviet republics.
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A look back at the history of the Russian-Western tensions, based on interviews with more than 30 past and present policy makers in the U.S., EU, Ukraine and Russia, shows how Western security policies angered Moscow without deterring it.
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t also shows how Mr. Putin consistently viewed Ukraine as existential for his project of restoring Russian greatness.
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A New World Energy Order Is Emerging From Putin's War on Ukraine - Bloomberg - 0 views
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blocs start to align in what looks like a new world energy order.
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“This represents the biggest re-drawing of the energy and geopolitical map in Europe — and possibly the world — since the collapse of the Soviet Union, if not the end of World War II,
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The outcome, he said, could be “a sequel to the Cold War.”
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