South Korea’s Cherry Blossoms Attract a Connoisseur: The Japanese
Cherry blossom viewing, or hanami, is a cherished rite in Japan. Some Japanese are also doing it in South Korea.
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Finland Must Continue to Consolidate Public Finances, Rehn Says
Finland can no longer avoid or delay dealing with its growing public debt, Bank of Finland Governor Olli Rehn said.
The White House power play post-dinner shooting: do what we say or else | Donald Trump
Less than 72 hours after a man was arrested for trying to assassinate Donald Trump at the White House, the justice department rushed to court to make an extraordinary filing. The subject of the emergency was a lawsuit by the National Trust for Historic Preservation seeking to halt the construction of a new White House…
This free website is like Wikipedia meets the CIA
Fact-check the planet with this free community-run resource based on the abandoned CIA ‘World Factbook.’ You may or may not have ever realized it, but for more than six decades, the CIA published an incredible resource called The World Factbook. It was a free reference guide to all the countries on Earth, along with several…
Women’s Elite Rugby enters season two with lessons learned, a pop star investor and ambition for US game | Women’s rugby union
Dr Jessica Hammond-Graf is president and chief sporting officer of Women’s Elite Rugby, the US semi-professional rugby union competition that kicks off its second season on Saturday in Massachusetts and Illinois. Like most Americans, she did not grow up with the game. An Army kid, she spent a lot of time playing soccer. In the…
How Much Shannon Elizabeth, More Have Made
Though the South Africa-based conservationist remains the CEO of the Shannon Elizabeth Foundation, this side hustle “allows me to connect directly with my audience, create on my own terms, and just be free,” she noted. “I really do think this is the future.” For Elizabeth it will be a return to role-playing, the actress telling…
German museum to return rare Irritator dinosaur skull to Brazil | Dinosaurs
It is a 113-million-year-old bone of contention. After Stuttgart’s museum of natural history bought a fossilised dinosaur skull in 1991, researchers found it was the most complete spinosaurid skull known to date, belonging to a previously unknown genus of the huge meat-eating dinosaurs. Palaeontologists studying the skull in 1996 dubbed the genus Irritator – reflecting…
Most Canadians Support MAID. But the Issue of Access for People With Mental Illness Is Fraught.
As Canada weighs the future of medically assisted death, one woman fears the law will change too late for her.
Matt Lauer’s Rape Accuser Brooke Nevils Speaks Out
Brooke Nevils, the former NBC talent assistant whose accusations against then-Today anchor Matt Lauer led to his exit from the network, struggled through tears in her first television appearance on CNN this week to discuss what happened and the book she published earlier this year about her experience with the disgraced journalist. Nevils spoke with…