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Japan Lacks a ‘Viable Option’ for Retaliating to Trump’s Tariffs
(nytimes.com)
Hioki Eki
,
../../../
(1905)
“
In China,
Japan
seeks no unfair advantage. She asks no favor from China that is not granted to England or the
United
States
or to the entire world. With England and the
United
States
she stands for the open door and, in the words of your great President, "square deal." Under these conditions
Japan
is willing to take her chances in the rivalry of trade. We believe in the survival of the fittest in trade as well as in social development. If, in a fair field, we cannot hold our own position we shall be crowded out of the race, and it is right we should be.
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China Will Face at Least 54 Percent Tariffs With Trump’s New Order
(nytimes.com)
the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China
,
China’s Position on the China–US Economic and Trade Consultations
(2019)
“
The recent US move to increase tariffs on Chinese exports does not help to solve bilateral trade issues.
China
strongly opposes this and has to respond to safeguard its lawful rights and interests.
China
has been consistent and clear on its position, that it hopes to resolve issues through dialogue rather than tariff measures.
China
will act rationally in the interests of the Chinese people, the American people, and all other peoples around the world. However,
China
will not bow under pressure and will rise to any challenge coming its way.
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Ukraine war briefing: Deadly ballistic missile strike on Zelenskyy hometown
(theguardian.com)
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
,
Speech by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Parliament of Japan
(2022)
“
Russia
has used more than a thousand missiles against peaceful cities in
Ukraine.
Countless bombs.
Russian
troops destroyed dozens of our cities. Some were burned to the ground. In many towns and villages that have come under
Russian
occupation, our people cannot even bury their murdered relatives, friends and neighbors with dignity. They have to bury them right in the yards of broken houses, near roads, anywhere where it is possible...
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‘The Cherry Orchard’ Review: A Captivating Take on Chekhov
(nytimes.com)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
,
Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series
“
But who shall deny that the base of almost all human unhappiness is just this inaction, manifesting itself in slovenliness of thought and execution, education, and ideal? The Russian, painfully conscious of his own weakness, has accepted this point of view, and regards “The Cherry Orchard” as its master-study in dramatic form. They speak of the palpitating hush which fell upon the audience of the Moscow Art Theatre after the first fall of the curtain at the first performance—a hush so intense as to make
Chekhov’s
friends undergo the initial emotions of assisting at a vast theatrical failure.
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Crispy Dreams and Cotton Candy: why are there so many new kinds of grape?
(theguardian.com)
George Husmann
,
The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines
“
There are innumerable other varieties, for which their originators all claim peculiar merits, and some of whom may prove valuable. But all who bring new varieties before the public, should consider that we have already names enough, nay, more than are good for us, and that it is useless to swell the list still more, unless we can do so with a variety, superior in some respects to our best varieties. A new
grape,
to claim favor at the hands of the public, should be healthy, hardy, a good
grower,
and productive; and of superior quality, either for the table or for wine.
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Why Ovechkin is 'nearly impossible' to stop: Opponents, teammates explain his shot
(espn.com)
Ralph Henry Barbour
,
Guarding His Goal
“
When he has stopped the
puck
he should sweep it aside and behind his
goal
if possible, but never shoot it ahead of him because a player of the other team might get it and shoot it before he was in position to stop it. When the
puck
is behind the
goal
he should never take his eyes off of it and when it approaches one side of the
goal
he should stand at that side and be ready in case a player tries to hook it in. If there is a scrimmage in front of the
goal
he should turn his skates out wide and keep his stick on the ice also.
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Shingles Vaccination May Help Protect People from Alzheimer’s Disease
(scientificamerican.com)
Anthony Stephen Fauci, Andrew M. Slavitt, and Rochelle Paula Walensky
,
Press Briefing by White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Officials, April 5, 2021
(2021)
“
If you could imagine
vaccination
levels among younger people eventually getting too close to the levels where we are with seniors, would you imagine that having a impact on the number of cases we’re seeing? DR. WALENSKY: I imagine it would be having a massive impact. I think what we’ve seen demographically is when we vaccinate large age strata — large age demographics — that we see less cases in those — in those demographics. So that is just more and more — makes it more and more important that when the
vaccine
is available, regardless of your age, you roll up your sleeve.
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San Francisco Rethinks Its Free Handouts of Drug Paraphernalia
(nytimes.com)
Franklin Hichborn
,
"The System," As Uncovered by the San Francisco Graft Prosecution
“
The people of San
Francisco
have been sorely tried. Fire and earthquake we cannot help, but the unhappy city has been made the prey of a set of conscienceless thieves who have done nothing since our great calamity beyond promoting schemes to fill their own pockets. Our streets, our sewers, our schools and our public buildings have been neglected, but the sale of permits and franchises, the working of real estate jobs and the market for privileges of every variety have been brisk and incessant. Officials have grown rich: Some of them are spending money like a drunken sailor.
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We need more male teachers so British boys have role models, says minister
(theguardian.com)
Allan Hoben
,
The Minister and the Boy: A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work
“
In the country one-room school there will be found but few boys over fourteen years of age, but a great deal can be done with the younger boys in some such way as follows: As school "lets out" in the afternoon the minister is on hand. The boys have been under a woman
teacher
all day and are glad to meet a man who will lead them in vigorous play. It may be baseball, football, trackwork with relay races, military drill, or the like--all they need is one who knows how, who is a recognized leader, and who serves as an immediate court of appeal.
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Authors call for UK government to hold Meta accountable for copyright infringement
(theguardian.com)
the Government of Japan
,
Copyright Act (Japanese: 著作権法 Chosakukenhō)
(2006)
“
The
author,
the
copyright
holder, the holder of the right of publication, the performer, or the holder of neighboring rights may demand that persons infringing, or presenting a risk of infringing, on his moral rights of
author,
copyright,
right of publication, or moral rights of performer or neighboring rights, as applicable, cease the
infringement
or not infringe, as the case may be.
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U.S. Sanctions Chinese and Hong Kong Officials for Pursuing Activists Abroad
(nytimes.com)
John Edward Porter
,
Free Press in Hong Kong Under Attack
“
Tyranny thrives on the weakness of others, and the United States has been weak in its response to Chinese behavior. Mr. Speaker, we must do everything possible to ensure that democratic advances in
Hong
Kong
are not reversed by oppressive Chinese policies. As 1997 approaches, the United States must stand with those in
Hong
Kong,
such as journalists opposing illegal restrictions on their free speech, who are rightly unwilling to capitulate to Beijing's efforts to strip the citizens of
Hong
Kong
of their democratic rights and freedoms.
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China’s New Barges Reveal How it Might Try to Seize Taiwan
(nytimes.com)
Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council and State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China
,
The Taiwan Question and China's Reunification in the New Era
(2022)
“
More than 70 years ago, China defeated the invaders and recovered
Taiwan.
Today, China has grown into the world's second largest economy. With significant growth in its political, economic, cultural, technological, and military strength, there is no likelihood that China will allow
Taiwan
to be separated again. Attempts to reject reunification and split the country are doomed, because they will founder against the history and culture of the Chinese nation as well as the resolve and commitment of more than 1.4 billion Chinese people.
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Italy Tightens Citizenship Rules Amid Influx of Applications
(nytimes.com)
Arthur Cheney Train
,
Courts and Criminals
“
In fact, at the present time more
Italian
criminals seek asylum in the Argentine than in the United States. Theoretically, of course, as no convict can procure a
passport,
none of them leave
Italy
at all—but that is one of the humors of diplomacy. The approved method among the continental countries of Europe of getting rid of their criminals is to induce them to "move on." A lot of them keep "moving on" until they land in America.
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Why the Court Hit the Brakes on School Desegregation
(newyorker.com)
Robert H. Jackson
,
Justice Jackson's Unpublished Opinion in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
(1954)
“
School
districts, from habit and conviction, will carry it along without aid of state statutes. To eradicate
segregation
by judicial action means two generations of litigation.It is apparent that our decision does not end but begins the struggle over
segregation.
Representatives of the Negros contend with great force that if to enter white
schools
is a right at all it is a present and personal right and that deferred belief may be a denial of rights to those pupils who meanwhile pass
school
age.
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Palestinian paramedics shot by Israeli forces had hands tied, eyewitnesses say
(theguardian.com)
Suleyman Demirel, Thorbjoern Jagland, Warren B. Rudman, Javier Solana, & George J Mitchell: Chairman
,
Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee: The Mitchell Plan
(2001)
“
When the widow of a murdered
Israeli
physician -- a man of peace whose practice included the treatment of Arab patients -- tells us that it seems that
Palestinians
are interested in killing Jews for the sake of killing Jews,
Palestinians
should take notice. When the parents of a
Palestinian
child killed while in his bed by an errant .50 caliber bullet draw similar conclusions about the respect accorded by
Israelis
to
Palestinian
lives,
Israelis
need to listen. When we see the shattered bodies of children we know it is time for adults to stop the violence.
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Does Intermittent Fasting Improve Health Beyond Weight Loss?
(scientificamerican.com)
Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon
,
How and When to Be Your Own Doctor
(August, 2003 [Etext# 4343])
“
If this stage is poorly managed or ignored you may become acutely ill, and for someone who started
fasting
while dangerously ill, loss of self control and impulsive eating could prove fatal. Even for those
fasting
to cure non-life-threatening illnesses it is pointless to go through the effort and discipline of a long fast without carefully establishing a correct
diet
after the fast ends, or the effort will have largely been wasted.
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Why China Is Wary of a Trump-Xi Summit
(nytimes.com)
Mike Pence
,
Remarks by Vice President Pence on the Administration’s Policy Toward China
(2018)
“
Closer to home, to protect our interests, we’ve recently strengthened CFIUS — the Committee on Foreign Investment — heightening our scrutiny of
Chinese
investment in America to protect our national security from
Beijing’s
predatory actions.And when it comes to
Beijing’s
malign influence and interference in American politics and policy, we will continue to expose it, no matter the form it takes. We will work with leaders at every level of society to defend our national interests and most cherished ideals. The American people will play the decisive role — and, in fact, they already are.
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Israel-Gaza war: Israeli defence minister announces expansion of military operations in Gaza – latest updates
(theguardian.com)
Benjamin Netanyahu
,
Speech to the 70th UN General Assembly
(2015)
“
We are so proud in Israel of the long strides our country has made in a short time. We’re so proud that our small country is making such a huge contribution to the entire world. Yet the dreams of our people, enshrined for eternity by the great prophets of the Bible, those dreams will be fully realized only when there is peace.As the
Middle
East
descends into chaos, Israel’s peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan are two cornerstones of stability. Israel remains committed to achieving peace with the Palestinians as well. Israelis know the price of war. I know the price of war.
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Why Is Elon Musk Trying to Buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat?
(newyorker.com)
Charles McCarthy
,
The Wisconsin Idea — Conclusion
(1912)
“
In the words of the current slang phrase, every
Wisconsin
legislator "comes from Missouri" and you have to "show him." Real reformers have yet to learn that they can progress much further if they really build well as they proceed. Many a good business man would welcome certain kinds of legislation if he were convinced that it could be made effective without great distortion of industrial conditions. It is to the advantage both of the reformer and the business man that there should be some attempt to improve our law-making process.
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Billionaires spent record amounts during 2024 federal election – report
(theguardian.com)
the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China
,
The Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2022
(2023)
“
Money in elections has set a new record. American elections are at the heart of its democracy, powered by money. Election costs have soared since
donation
limits were lifted in 2010 and again in 2014. According to an analysis published by OpenSecrets, the total cost of the 2022 state and federal midterm elections was nearly 17 billion dollars, the most expensive election in history. Federal candidates and political committees spent 8.9 billion dollars, while state candidates, party committees, and ballot measure committees spent 7.8 billion dollars, both of which set all-time records.
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See the Total Lunar Eclipse from the Moon in Photos from Blue Ghost Lander
(scientificamerican.com)
George F. Chambers
,
The Story of Eclipses
“
During a total
eclipse
of the Sun, the
Moon’s
shadow travels across the
Earth
at a prodigious pace—1830 miles an hour; 301⁄2 miles a minute; or rather more than a 1⁄2 mile a second. This great velocity is at once a clue to the fact that the [37] total phase during an
eclipse
of the Sun lasts for so brief a time as a few minutes; and also to the fact that the shadow comes and goes almost without being seen unless a very sharp watch is kept for it.
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Senate Democrats Press Trump for Answers on Security Breach
(nytimes.com)
Sean Michael Spicer
,
Statement by Press Secretary Sean Spicer (January 31, 2017)
(2017)
“
The
Senate
Democrats
have done everything in their power to slow the work of the
Senate,
while the President continues to take decisive action, just like he promised. So it's unfortunate that
Senate
Democrats
remain so out of touch with the message that the American people sent this past November -- that people want change. President Trump is delivering that change, and the only response from
Senate
Democrats
so far is to try to stall the core functions of our government.
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The Brooklyn Bridge Gets a Glow-Up
(newyorker.com)
Franklin Edson
,
Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, May 24, 1883
“
That
Brooklyn
will gain in numbers and in wealth with accelerated speed is a foregone conclusion. Whether this gain shall in any wise be at the expense of New York, is a matter in regard to which the great metropolis does not concern herself. Her citizens are content with the knowl71edge that she exists and grows with the growth of the whole country, of whose progress and prosperity she is but the exponent and the index. Will the
Bridge
lead, as has been forcibly suggested, and in some quarters hopefully anticipated, to the further union of the two cities under one name and one government?
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DOJ Reinforces Demand to Break Up Google’s Search Monopoly
(nytimes.com)
John Thomas Rosch
,
Intel, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook: Observations on Antitrust and the High-Tech Sector
(2010)
“
The third argument that I have heard against challenging conduct by firms in high-tech markets is that we can’t challenge conduct by firms that only have “incipient”
monopoly
power, as may be the case in conduct cases where a firm is on the cusp of achieving
monopoly
power, but the market has not yet tipped. This, for example, could have become an issue in the
Google/AdMob
merger.
Google
and AdMob were the number 1 and 2 mobile advertising networks, respectively. Apple was not in the market when the investigation began.
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Fighting for Justice for Japan’s ‘Comfort Women’
(nytimes.com)
Larry Niksch
,
Japanese Military's "Comfort Women" System
(2007)
“
Since Japan’s admission of responsibility for the
comfort
women system, there have been frequent disputes over whether
Japanese
history textbooks should discuss
comfort
women. The real battle today in Japan over the
comfort
women issue is whether
Japanese
history textbooks will discuss it. In 1997, the
Japanese
Ministry of Education allowed some new middle-school textbooks to discuss
comfort
women as a form of sexual slavery based on the “forcible recruitment” of women.
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U.S. Inflation Report Expected to Show Stubbornly High Prices in February
(nytimes.com)
Jared Bernstein and Ernie Tedeschi
,
Pandemic Prices: Assessing Inflation in the Months and Years Ahead
(2021)
“
LONGER-TERM
INFLATION
AND EXPECTATIONS Over the longer-term, a key determinant of lasting price pressures is
inflation
expectations. When businesses, for example, expect long-run prices to stay around the Federal Reserve’s 2
percent
inflation
target, they may be less likely to adjust prices and wages due to the types of temporary factors discussed earlier. If, however, inflationary expectations become untethered from that target, prices may rise in a more lasting manner.
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New York City Can’t Allow Noncitizens to Vote, Top State Court Rules
(nytimes.com)
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
“
If the right belongs to any particular person, it is because such person is entitled to it by the laws of the
State
where he offers to exercise it, and not because of citizenship of the United
States.
If the
State
of
New
York
should provide that no person should vote until he had reached the age of thirty-one years, or after he had reached the age of fifty, or that no person having gray hair, or who had not the use of all his limbs, should be entitled to vote, I do not see how it could be held to be a violation of any right derived or held under the
Constitution
of the United
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Rebuffs Trump’s Outreach Over Its Nuclear Program
(nytimes.com)
Benjamin Netanyahu
,
PM Netanyahu's speech in Congress
(2015)
“
If
Iran
doesn't change its behavior, the restrictions should not be lifted. If
Iran
wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.My friends, What about the argument that there's no alternative to this deal, that
Iran's
nuclear know-how cannot be erased, that its nuclear
program
is so advanced that the best we can do is delay the inevitable, which is essentially what the proposed deal seeks to do?Well, nuclear know-how without nuclear infrastructure doesn't get you very much. A racecar driver without a car can't drive. A pilot without a plane can't fly.
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How Tennis Players Really Feel About Rankings
(nytimes.com)
William T. Tilden
,
The Art of Lawn Tennis
“
A tournament committee should never keep a
player
waiting for an important match to commence while they scour through the crowd for linesmen. These necessary, and I trust useful, accessories to every match of importance should be picked and on hand when the
players
appear. A good linesman is a great aid to match
tennis.
A poor one may ruin a great battle. Not only will bad decisions turn the tide by putting a point in the wrong columns, but slow decisions will often upset
players,
so they dare not play to the line kept by slumberous linesmen.
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America’s next killing spree: 10 days, five states, six death-row prisoners set to die
(theguardian.com)
Glossip v. Gross
(2015)
“
In sum, if we look to States, in more than 60% there is effectively no
death
penalty, in an additional 18% an
execution
is rare and unusual, and 6%, i.e., three States, account for 80% of all
executions.
If we look to population, about 66% of the Nation lives in a State that has not carried out an
execution
in the last three years. And if we look to counties, in 86% there is effectively no
death
penalty. It seems fair to say that it is now unusual to find capital punishment in the United States, at least when we consider the Nation as a whole.
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How ‘Qudits’ Could Boost Quantum Computing
(scientificamerican.com)
N. Cody Jones, Rodney Van Meter, Austin G. Fowler, Peter L. McMahon, Jungsang Kim, Thaddeus D. Ladd, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto
,
Layered Architecture for Quantum Computing
“
Many researchers have presented and examined components of large-scale
quantum
computing. We study here how these components may be combined in an efficient design, and we introduce new methods that improve the
quantum
computer we propose. This engineering pursuit is
quantum-computer
architecture, which we develop here in layers. An architecture decomposes complex system behaviors into a manageable set of operations. A layered architecture does this through layers of abstraction where each layer embodies a critical set of related functions.
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