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How the anti-abortion movement embraced fringe ‘abolitionists’ and became more punitive
(theguardian.com)
William O. Douglas
,
United States v. Vuitch — Dissent
“
There is a compelling personal interest in marital privacy and in the limitation of family size. And on the other side is the belief of many that the
fetus,
once formed, is a member of the human family and that mere personal inconvenience cannot justify the
fetus'
destruction. This is not to say that government is powerless to legislate on
abortions.
Yet the laws enacted must not trench on constitutional guarantees which they can easily do unless colsely
confined.Abortion
statutes deal with conduct which is heavily weighted with religious teachings and ethical concepts.
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Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests
(theguardian.com)
Charles G. Harper
,
Summer Days in Shakespeare Land
“
That
Shakespeare
left his wife and family at home at
Stratford-on-Avon
every one takes for granted. He “deserted his family,” says a rabid Baconian, who elsewhere complains of the lack of evidence to support believers in the dramatist; forgetting that there is no evidence for this “desertion” story; only one of those many blanks in the life of this elusive man, by which it would appear that while he was reaching fame and making money in London as a playwright and an actor, he held no communication with his kith and kin.
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Ukraine war briefing: Chinese making drones in Russia, Zelenskyy says
(theguardian.com)
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
,
Address by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the US Congress
(2022)
“
Russia
has turned the Ukrainian sky into a source of death. For thousands of people.Russian troops have already fired nearly a thousand missiles at
Ukraine.
Countless bombs. They use drones to kill more precisely. This is a terror Europe has not seen for 80 years!And we ask for a response. For the response from the world. For the response to terror. Is this too much of a request?To establish a no-fly zone over
Ukraine
is to save people. Humanitarian no-fly zone. Conditions under which
Russia
will no longer be able to terrorize our peaceful cities every day and night.
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Police officers who fail background checks to be automatically sacked
(theguardian.com)
Parliament of Singapore
,
Police Force Act 2004 (Now Cap. 235)
(2004)
“
A person shall cease to be an auxiliary police
officer
immediately upon his dismissal by, or his resignation from the service of, the Government or by any statutory body, company or other organisation employing him, as the case may be, in its Auxiliary Police Force.
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Vance says 21st century could be ‘dark time for humanity’ in speech in India
(theguardian.com)
John Morley
,
Indian speeches (1907-1909)
“
My warning may be wasted, but anybody who has a chance ought to try to appeal to the better, the riper, mind of educated
India.
Time has gone on with me, experience has widened. I have never lost my invincible faith that there is a better mind in all civilised communities—and that this better mind, if you can reach it, if statesmen in time to come can reach that better mind, can awaken it, can evoke it, can induce it to apply itself to practical purposes for the improvement of the conditions of such a community, they will earn the crown of beneficent fame indeed.
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‘We got stuck in puddles’: skiers upset by lack of snow on Swedish slopes
(theguardian.com)
Sir William Martin Conway
,
With ski & sledge over Arctic glaciers
“
Hunger came to weaken us and double the apparent length of the way. At last we were on the col, but the downward
slope
was very gentle and the
snow
now became sticky, so that the ski would not slide. We bore away to the right in search of a steeper incline and struck blue ice covered with mere slush that even the ski sank into. There were dry patches of it, too slippery to stand on; it was a mere alternation of evils. Sometimes we stuck fast and sometimes fell heavily.
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The New Tornado Alley Has Been Hyperactive this Year
(scientificamerican.com)
Logan Marshall
,
The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado
“
It is difficult for any one who has not lived through a
tornado
to have any conception of what such a storm can do. Tornadic force means anything more than one hundred miles an hour. There have been instances where tornadoes have222 shaved off the stone sides of buildings as if they had been sliced away by a stonecutter. Forecaster Scarr, of
New
York, said that the
tornado
that wrought destruction in Nebraska may have been of the resistless kind that simply ground stone and brick to dust and carried up its electrified funnel the remnants of every building it struck.
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Playwright Asif Khan: ‘When people think about theatre, they think white people and Shakespeare’
(theguardian.com)
William Poel
,
Shakespeare in the Theatre
“
If a
theatre
were established in this country for the performance of Shakespeare’s plays with the simplicity and rapidity with which they were acted in his time, it might limit the endless experiments, mutilations, and profitless discussions that every revival occasions. “To read a play,” said Robert Louis Stevenson, “is a knack, the fruit of much knowledge and some imagination, comparable to that of reading score”; the reader is apt to miss the proper point of view.
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Rice crisis: Japan imports grain from South Korea for first time in more than 25 years
(theguardian.com)
F. H. King
,
Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan
“
It must be recognized that in certain regions, because of peculiar fitness of soil, climate and people, needful products can be produced there better and enough more cheaply than elsewhere to pay the cost of transportation. If China, Korea and
Japan,
with parts of India, can and will produce the best and cheapest silks, teas or
rice,
it must be for the greatest good to seek a mutually helpful exchange, and the erection of impassable tariff barriers is a declaration of war and cannot make for world peace and world progress.
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Show us your mussels! A mouthwatering trip to Vigo, Spain’s seafood capital
(theguardian.com)
Walter Wood
,
A Corner of Spain
“
Vigo
is
Galicia's
chief portal, and offers ready means of access to the other parts of the province. The town affords wonderful contrasts between the old and new worlds which jostle up against each other in every part of North-West Spain. You are in a quaint, strange world as soon as you have stepped ashore and are clear of the Customs and free to roam. In the steep and narrow streets of the old town people lead the primitive life of many generations or centuries ago.
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The US government is coming for Google and Meta – but what will happen next?
(theguardian.com)
John Thomas Rosch
,
Intel, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook: Observations on Antitrust and the High-Tech Sector
(2010)
“
Fourth and finally, I believe that when the agencies bring cases in the high-tech sector, their story must be flexible not only to account for changes in the market place (be it competition for the x86 platform in the Intel litigation or Apple’s entry into mobile advertising in the
Google/AdMob
merger) , but that it should also account for dynamic effects and efficiencies. As I have said elsewhere, in my view, antitrust law has for far too long largely applied a static analysis, which looks mostly at marginal prices and costs in the short run.
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US stock markets fall again as Trump calls Fed chair ‘a major loser’
(theguardian.com)
James Hamilton Lewis
,
Business conditions in America—what is the meaning of the "recession", so-called?
(1937)
“
What is the matter with America, and what is the matter with the people? This morning from the press we read that the New York
stock
market—to take but a single barometer—has fallen precipitously for many weeks; that throughout the East uncertainty and general fear prevail; and that the belief prevails that this major recession has been caused to no small degree by the New Deal policies in general, and the tax laws of the Roosevelt administration in particular.
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Quantum Computer Makes Random-Number Breakthrough
(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
“
Although the physics is well understood, developing devices that compute with
quantum
mechanics is technologically daunting. While experiments to date manipulate only a handful of
quantum
bits [1] , we consider what effort is required to build a large-scale
quantum
computer. This objective demands more than a cursory estimate of the number of qubits and gates required for a given algorithm. One must consider the faulty
quantum
hardware, with errors caused by both the environment and deliberate control operations; the classical processing required when error correction is invoked
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What’s missing from Alex Garland’s Iraq movie Warfare? Context, motivation and, for the most part, Iraqis | Peter Beaumont
(theguardian.com)
John McCain
,
Speech by John McCain on Iraq
“
What struck me upon my return from Baghdad is the enormous gulf between the harsh but hopeful realities in
Iraq,
where politics is for many a matter of life and death, and the fanciful and self-interested debates about
Iraq
that substitute for statesmanship in Washington. In
Iraq,
American and Iraqi soldiers risk everything to hold the country together, to prevent it from becoming a terrorist sanctuary and the region from descending into the dangerous chaos of a widening war.
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What’s the secret to the perfect spring breakfast? | Kitchen aide
(theguardian.com)
Christine Terhune Herrick
,
What to Eat, How to Serve it
“
A child's
breakfast
should always begin with some cereal, but this need not invariably be oatmeal. Other preparations often agree better with the children, and a variety is preferable to the monotonous use of the one kind of
porridge.
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Sky-high US-China tariffs are a mutual trade embargo that will hurt both sides
(theguardian.com)
State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China
,
The Facts and China’s Position on China–US Trade Friction
“
The US boasts huge competitive strength in high-tech
trade.
Yet, haunted by the cold-war mentality, it imposes strict
export
controls on
China,
thereby limiting the potential of advantageous US
exports,
causing significant lost
export
opportunities, and widening its
trade
deficit with
China.
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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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Reeling From Trump’s Tariffs, South Korea Tries Striking a Delicate Balance
(nytimes.com)
Donald Trump, Moon Jae-in
,
Remarks by President Trump and President Moon of the Republic of Korea Before Bilateral Meeting
(2018)
“
It’s a great honor to have President Moon of
South
Korea
with us. We’ve become great friends over the years. And it’s now — we’ve now known each other for quite some time.We’re working on many things. Obviously, North
Korea
is the big one. No matter how big trade is, North
Korea,
in this case, is the big one. And we’ll be discussing that. We’ll also be discussing trade. We have a very big trade arrangement that we’re renegotiating right now with
South
Korea.
They’ve been excellent people to work with for the Trump administration. And we will have some pretty good news, I think, on trade.
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Fed Under Pressure as Inflation Expectations Rise
(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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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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Pollen peril: how heat, thunder and smog are creating deadly hay fever seasons
(theguardian.com)
George Frederick Laidlaw
,
The Treatment of Hay Fever by rosin-weed, ichthyol and faradic electricity
“
Even Nature's immunity is not perfect in all diseases, as many a patient with his sixth attack of grippe or third pneumonia or fortieth year of
hay
fever
has learned most feelingly; and this irregularity of natural immunity bears directly on the proposal to immunize patients against
hay
fever
by small and increasing doses of the offending
pollen.
If the natural disease does not confer lasting immunity, you will have some difficulty in conferring lasting immunity artificially, as the immunologist is just now discovering.
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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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Maine Sues U.S.D.A. Over Public School Lunch Funding Amid Title IX Fight
(nytimes.com)
Ralph Nader
,
Join the Fight for Title IX
(2003)
“
The real expenses starving minor men's sports of funding are the disproportionate share of university athletic dollars spent on one or two teams—football and men's basketball—and not spent to add new teams for women or to support other men's sports.
Title
IX
should not be the scapegoat for irresponsible, nonprofit institutions of higher education that operate their football and men's basketball programs like professional franchises.
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Scientists target queen bees in search of secret to longer life
(theguardian.com)
Mrs. Lizzie E. Cotton
,
Bee Keeping for Profit. A New System of Bee Management (1891)
(1891)
“
They appear to fully realize the vast importance of a mother, and that with no means to supply her place they must soon perish; and to avoid their impending fate they return to the old hive. With old stocks deprived of their
queen
the result is different, as will be shown further on. Every one who keeps
bees
should strive to become familiar with the appearance of the
queen,
that they may be able to recognize her at a glance among thousands of workers, as it will often be necessary to look her up in my new system of
bee
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The best cordless vacuum cleaners for a spotless home: 10 tried and tested favourites
(theguardian.com)
Ethel R. Peyser
,
Cheating the Junk-Pile: The Purchase and Maintenance of Household Equipments
(1922)
“
It is true, that the
vacuum
cleaner
needs very little care, probably oiling once a month and the removal of the dust after every cleaning operation. The oiling is easy to understand, but the reason for removing the dust after every operation is: that, if the dust bags clog up, the egress of the air is impeded, and therefore the action of the motor is impeded, and the fan’s speed is diminished, causing a decrease in velocity and air supply which is what makes the
cleaner
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Climate change is not just a problem of physics but a crisis of justice
(theguardian.com)
National Intelligence Council
,
Implications for US National Security of Anticipated Climate Change
(2016)
“
Effects of
Climate
Change on US National Security: Possible Timeframes The major forces driving
climate
are understood well enough for models to forecast
climate
trends for general regions, but complex interactions in the
climate
system, modeling uncertainties, and human choices make it difficult to project when and where specific
weather
and
climate
effects will most significantly affect national security. Most scientists expect that
climate
change generally will exacerbate current conditions—for example, making hot, dry places hotter and drier.
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Partial solar eclipse live: watch as moon to block part of sun for people in northern hemisphere
(theguardian.com)
Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage
,
Astronomy of To-day: A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language
“
A total
eclipse
of the
sun
takes place when the moon comes between the
sun
and the earth, in such a manner that it cuts off the sunlight entirely for the time being from a portion of the earth's surface. A person situated in the region in question will, therefore, at that moment find the
sun
temporarily blotted out from his view by the body of the moon. Since the moon is a very much smaller body than the
sun,
and also very much the nearer to us of the two, it will readily be understood that the portion of the earth from which the
sun
is seen thus totally eclipsed will be of small extent.
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Women should avoid all alcohol to reduce risk of breast cancer, charity says
(theguardian.com)
Bill Clinton
,
Proclamation 7029
“
Let us ensure that all women know about the dangers of
breast
cancer,
are informed about the lifesaving potential of early detection, receive recommended screening services, and have access to health care services and information. Let us continue to move research forward to improve treatments and find a cure for this disease. Working together, we can look forward to the day when our mothers, wives, daughters, sisters, and friends can live long, healthy lives, free from the specter of
breast
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Vietnam Urges United States to Delay Imposing Tariffs On It
(nytimes.com)
Barack Obama
,
Remarks by President Obama in Address to the People of Vietnam
(2016)
“
Now, the United States has an interest here. We have an interest in
Vietnam’s
success. But our Comprehensive Partnership is still in its early stages. And with the time I have left, I want to share with you the vision that I believe can guide us in the decades ahead.First, let’s work together to create real opportunity and prosperity for all of our people. We know the ingredients for economic success in the 21st century. In our global economy, investment and trade flows to wherever there is rule of law, because no one wants to pay a bribe to start a business.
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Artwork of Jane Austen’s older sister to go on show in house where siblings lived
(theguardian.com)
Pen-portraits of literary women
(1887)
“
The bond of sisterhood, more than any other relation, seems to have influenced
Jane
Austen in her art. With her own closest life-long friend in her
sister
Cassandra,
the author who so rarely repeats herself in the circumscribed sphere in which she chose to work, again and again draws a pair of
sisters,
for the most part sharing every joy and sorrow.
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How Crises on Colleges Campuses Might Affect Students
(nytimes.com)
Students for a democratic society
,
Port Huron Statement
“
The significance is in the fact that
students
are breaking the crust of apathy and overcoming the inner alienation that remain the defining characteristics of American college life.If
student
movements for change are still rarities on the
campus
scene, what is commonplace there? The real
campus,
the familiar
campus,
is a place of private people, engaged in their notorious "inner emigration." It is a place of commitment to business-as-usual, getting ahead, playing it cool.
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