August 2011
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“The determination and bravery of Syrian demonstrators has confounded outside...”
– What makes unarmed protesters defy snipers and tanks for months? Courageous Syrian demonstrators have a wide range of motivations.
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“South Africa is one of the most criminally violent countries. With around 50...”
– And it used to be worse: since the end of apartheid in 1994, the murder rate has fallen by half. Yet such improvements are marred by the appalling number of police officers being accused of serious crimes.
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“Immigration is, on the whole, good for economies; and right now, rich countries...”
– Immigration is a sensitive subject at the best of times, and this is not one of them. At least our position is clear.
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“Surveys in Japan have suggested that women who work full-time then go home and...”
– Asian women seem to bear an unusually large share of the burden of marriage. That may be one reason why they are marrying later, and less, than in the past.
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“A few weeks ago, China’s prime minister, Wen Jiabao, rebuked Britain for its...”
– To err is human. To gloat, divinely satisfying. Disarray in the west has generated finger-wagging editorials in Asia. But there are problems with Asian triumphalism.
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“As ever more Americans go online instead of sending paper, the volume of mail...”
– The US Postal Service has lost $20 billion in the last four years and expects to lose another $8 billion this fiscal year. The recession made everything worse, but the internet is the main culprit.
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“From the moment of painting the figure 1 until the day he died, when he had...”
– For 46 years Roman Opalka painted canvases covered in numbers, a project only curtailed by his death this month. Our obituary remembers him.
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“People used to buy bootleg CDs and Japanese imports containing music that none...”
– Vinyl is back. In America vinyl sales are running 39% above last year’s levels.
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“Since 1992 the Innocence Project, an American legal charity, has used DNA...”
– People have a strange and worrying tendency to admit to things they have not, in fact, done. Researchers aim to find out why.
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“She did not enjoy killing a German sentry with her bare hands, but she was...”
– Nancy Wake, saboteur and special agent, died this month. Our obituary tells her extraordinary story.
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“John Henry Patterson, who founded the National Cash Register Company in 1884,...”
– Bosses aren’t growing more horrible—employees just expect them to be more agreeable.
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“When the managers of Le Monde introduced computers to the paper’s print works in...”
– In France, a battle looms between an iconic paper and a powerful print union
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