The last two US presidents thought they were too involved in the region, but she refused to let them go, page 29 The post-Covid-19 welfare state Building a social safety net for the post-Covid-19 world: leader, page 12. The pandemic has transformed the welfare state. In Shanghai and San Francisco, iodine tablets and iodized salt were thrown off the shelves as people sought prophylaxis they did not need.
St Augustine’s economics
Extending the leave scheme from April to September will put money in people's pockets, helping to recover household expenses. Hawkish rhetoric is all very well, but eventually Mr. Sunak will have to follow St. Augus.
It’s complicated
Talking is not easy, but if America wants to focus less on a difficult part of the world, it is the only way forward. One stated aim of the campaign is to remove the "harmful influence" of Zhou Yongkang, who was China's security chief just before Mr. Xi took power.
The darkest corners
In the months leading up to the purge, several powerful figures in this apparatus were toppled. Brits used to complain about lay people jumping off the welfare state; now they are more likely to say that aid is too stingy.
Bouncing back
Salvation came in the form of the British government's leave scheme, without which he would be out of a job. Established principles like means testing (welfare only for the poorest), social security (only for those who paid) and conditionality (only for those who do something) went out the window.
Shelter from the storm
The experience has made him more supportive of the welfare state – and even larger schemes such as a universal basic income (UBI). In a new book on the social contract, Minouche Shafik, the head of the London School of The Pandemic, has transformed the welfare state.
The shooting starts
Mr. Davis suspects that there are hardliners in the military who advocate faster and tougher repression to stem the erosion of morale. Polomia stems from an outbreak of African swine fever, an infectious disease deadly to pigs, which arrived in the archipelago in 2019.
Web of regulation
Aye Thidar Oo, a typist at a municipal office in Yangon, declares: "It could take a year, two years, ten years: I will continue to strike until the end." Nann Yin Htwe, a worker in a garment factory, says her salary was so low that she has nothing to lose in a strike. The lowest rate is 30%, which counteracts the quota expansion, says Ramon Clarete of Building Safe Agricul.
The Chancellor has made his move
Now should you make yours ?
Nuclear decay
The removal of 900 tonnes of molten fuel from the three failed reactors – the most radioactive part of the wreckage – is. The government wanted nuclear plants to produce half of Japan's energy by mid-century.
Scraping the bones
In charge of this trial phase was Chen Yixin, a senior security official who appears to have been rooting for Mr Xi - in February last year, in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, he was sent to Wuhan to help oversee the work of the Suppression and Containment Orts of the great eruption dis. Among the 16,000 people involved in the trial phase, more than 2,200 were disciplined, including 39 formally charged.
The law kicks in
They want Dazhai to be a famous place of new tourism, promoted together with the revolutionary bases on the Long March route. According to the logic of the Xi era, Chinese people are able to benefit from the party's wise rule today because they always trusted the party, even when it is wrong.
Chaguan
Local officials have drawn up plans to include their village in a Chinese official campaign to promote "red tourism" and teach party history to the masses. Last month, Xi gathered senior leaders to emphasize the importance of properly studying party history, in order to pass on "red genes and revolutionary fire" to later generations.
Exodus, chapter 41
One of Mr. Biden's first assignments — unfinished business, for many members of his foreign policy team — is to curb Iran's nuclear program and deceit. The Middle East, he and Benaim wrote in Foreign Afairs, is “the most dangerous under-institutionalized region in the world,” with nothing like the African Union or the Organization of American States that meets policing standards.
Slimming tips
Red and black
The Economist March 6, 2021 United States of America. killing,” recalled one of the group's collaborators. Today, it is the black radicals in the Bay Area who are most nostalgic for what China once stood for. Even Ms. McKinley, while “not a ccp supporter,” is “skeptical” about Hong Kong pro.
At the beginning of the cultural rev. In the end, Williams, dependent on the CCP for sustenance, watched helplessly from his apartment in Beijing as the Red Guards marched down the street with his sons' teachers.). As authoritarian as it was under Mao, it is now capitalist (albeit with Chinese characteristics) and no longer a source of revolutionary ideas.
Swimming freestyle
Two nations under God
At another northwest church, a leader was fired after writing online that "this is not the gospel" when Mr. Trump posed with a Bible last year. But after Jan. 6 and Mr. Trump's efforts to derail a fair election, Jones says, "If ever there was an opening, this is it."
The millennial caudillo
Since Mr. Since Bukele took office, the homicide rate has dropped, as he often reminds voters. But criminologists point out that the homicide rate has fallen since 2015, before Mr. Bukele was at the top (see chart).
A sea change
This week the health secretary. ies of Brazil's 27 state governments th. declared that the country was suffering "the worst moment" of the pandemic. As for Russia, it has all but disappeared from Latin America since the end of the cold war.
Still bearing the cross
The Iraqi government has made at least some efforts to reach out to Christians. Some Iraqis think the pope's visit will raise awareness of the country's long history of Christianity and, perhaps, lead to greater understanding between faiths.
A jab among friends
Western aid groups have singled out the Iraqi Christians (and Yazidis). usaid, the US development agency, commit. It was the only district to receive a special cash flow for resettlement. ed the terms of a $75 million contribution to the unin 2018 planned for a stabilisa. The agency arranged for $55 million to be spent supporting Reli. large minorities in the plains of Nineveh. Last month gunmen killed Lok. man Slim, a leading critic of Hezbollah, the Shia militant group-cum-political par. The murder, like most such killings in Lebanon, has not been solved and probably never will be.).
Out and preyed on
On March 2, the pound hit 10,000 against the dollar, its worst ever rate, prompting angry protests across the country. Queer people are assertive right now,” says Basiru Alumbugu of the African Queer Youth Initiative, a network of activists across the continent.
Tomato truce
How can they not see that what they are practicing is exactly what they had practiced on them?". Despite the dangers, young gay Africans are gaining the courage to stand up for themselves.
New kings of the wild frontier
They have really got Europol in their sights," he adds, referring to the EU's law enforcement agency. On December 7, the EU's anti-fraud office, OLAF, raided the offices of Fabrice Leggeri, director of Frontex, and his chief of staff as part of an investigation into fraudulent behavior, including the "pushback" (illegal deportation) of mi.
An end to impunity
On January 27, Frontex said it had suspended operations in Hungary after the EU's top court criticized the country's forced return of migrants to Serbia. As Frontex expands, it risks drawing recruits away from the EU's existing pool of 100,000 or so border guards, leaving gaps in national forces.
After the war
In one of those twists in which the French excel, the once hyperkinetic Sarkozy has become more popular since leaving office than when he was president. In 2005, Jacques Chirac, a Gaullist pastor at the Elysée Palace, refused to commemorate the bicen, despite protests at the time.
Prisoner of confusion
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The second pillar is a well-crafted image that combines the style of Mr. Kretschmann at home - a devoted churchgoer and us. Over the years, Mr. Kretschmann has clashed with his party on everything from phasing out combustion engines to deporting failed asylum seekers.
Charlemagne
Mr. Kretschmann has sometimes led national popularity polls, despite having no aspirations outside his home state ("Whenever I'm in Berlin, I'm always reminded how beautiful it is in BadenWürttemberg," he once joked). For all the hand-wringing, Mr Kretschmann's centrism has carried the day in the National Party, which is now firmly in the hands of Realos and gearing up to take office after a general election in September.
A game of two halves
Although Britain currently operates without an official set of fiscal rules, Mr Sunak has accepted. Mr. Sunak has chosen to rely heavily on taxes, undoing the reductions in both for.
A funny smell in Holyrood
No doubt this is partly due to the large gifts over the next two years. According to a profile in Tatlermagazine, she wants to get rid of “John Lewis furniture night.
Nazi parties
He passed the great test that the British traditionally impose on anyone who aspires to the highest office in the land - to maintain his dignity while eating bacon. Mr Miliband is a political freak who, after the financial crisis, came to the conclusion that Labor needed to be bold.
Here we go again
In the case of Argentina, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) struggled to play this role because it was one of the creditors demanding repayment. Regarding last year's restructuring of Ecuador, which was completed in a few months, it was crucial that the government maintained good relations with the IMF.
Racing ahead
A short conversation last April, between Mr Poonawalla and his father Cyrus, Serum Institute's founder, regarding A fire earlier this year at one new building sent a shiver down the spine of the world's covid responders vn.
DAX vaxxers
His company's production will peak at 600m700m doses a year for each of the four vaccines it is currently studying, he says. There may be a second phase of the pandemic with new variants resistant to current vaccines.
Expansion, your honour!
Let the good times roll
Drive-through rules
Breadwinners
One of the best explanations for the triumph of a "solution shop" like McKinsey was written by the late Clayton Chris.
Schumpeter
The inflation bogeyman
In the past few decades, central banks have been given inflation targets, and the monetary regime has shifted again. There are probably limits to how far an inflation scare can go this early in the economic recovery.
Taper test
Third, the volatility in the bond market seems to have dried up liquidity. You can put the events of last week down to “technical issues”, the most common explanation for many a financial market scare.
Accounts due
Apollo Global Management, a US private equity giant, is in talks to buy at least part of the franchise at a fraction of the $7 billion value that Greensill, which had planned to list its shares, once hoped for to achieve. Adherents of the practice point out that it keeps money flowing, even if some are cash transactions.
Cheques and balances
When the pandemic ends, it will happen again. slack may also change, at least among some segments of the political spectrum. U.S. government bond yields rose sharply after Ben Bernanke, then-Chairman of the Federal Reserve, talked about tapering (or tapering off) the Fed's bond purchases.
Free exchange
This kind of evidence has led Fed officials ever since to argue that the sensitivity of emerging markets to the Fed's words and actions depends very much on the economic fundamentals of the emerging markets themselves. Fiscal sustainability "has become the key macro area for some emerging markets," says Lord.
Unspoken understanding
At present, Dr. Robotka's focus is on translating sign language into text or speech. Translating in the other direction presents bigger problems, one of which is generating visual representations of sign language.
Helpful humidity
Another is to find the best way to interpret the lan sign. Finally, it will try to create better avatars. easier, of which Dr Hanke's team in Hamburg is one of 14 partners, has similar goals: namely sign language recognition, powerful two-way translation and avatar development. Money and attention are always good. But previous attempts to automate sign language translation have too often been directed at creating life. good for the normal hearing instead of really trying to help the deaf.
Machine
This is one of the reasons why many up. perrespiratory viruses, such as influenza, abound in winter. It suggests that in addition to filtering out at least some of the viral particles floating around in the air, masks help keep a person's snot levels healthy.
Then, on inhalation, dry air passes. going through the mask would collect the de. posited water and return it to the fire. That could give a mask wearer's immune system a significant advantage. In the hottest room it gives a boost. ed the relative humidity of inhaled air by more than 50%, compared to breathing with. The other masks recorded figures between 150% and 225%.).
Supergrass
The letters in question are part of the Brienne collection, a collection of thousands of undelivered letters from the 17th century. In order to get to the contents of their letters while maintaining the integrity of the locks, the team turns.
Tomorrow’s world
And the researcher who first tested the technique on human cells was Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Broad's lawyers are thus clashing with those from the University of California, Berkeley, where Dr. Doudna, and with the representation of dr. Charpentier.
Zero hour
The book offers a sympathetic assessment of a fallen luminary – James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and founding head of Human Genome Pro. It is also the molecule that guides the prediction complex to the right part of the genome for editing.
More than human
Spoiler: they did, as Ben Buchanan described in "The Hacker and the State", published last year.). Its willingness to pay top dollar for zero days has pushed their prices up, but that doesn't mean it "cultivated and sponsored" today's market.
History plays
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Six of one
To play this lead role in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitt. man”, in 1974 Cicely Tyson spent months preparing. asked her to go from 19 to 110 years old, when the fountain incident oc. She herself was somewhere in her mid-49s, though her elfin body and toned skin might have made her half that. Each time she earned a first — the first black woman to win an Emmy as a lead actress, for "Jane Pittman," and the first to receive an honorary Oscar, in 2018 — she saw it as not only an opportunity to dazzle in ruffles, silk or lace, but a victory for humanity.
Beauty and defiance
But there, straightening her shoulders, raising her chin, she shook off her helpers. She could walk, and she could walk from here. She kept that half-inch afro for her TV role in "East Side/West Side," the first lead role for a black actress in a series, which wowed Americans for her character. actress had a serious career as a secretary and was comfortable in her own skin.
The Jab
