With more than 160 members, the World Trade Organization describes itself as the only global organization dealing with the rules of trade among nations. “The outsourcing revolution has affected the developing world in a major way: global manufacturing and new services have dramatically changed...
A multitude of internal and external economic and social forces push and pull at China, and author Terry Lautz, a Moynihan Research Fellow at Syracuse University, compares China to a fictional animal with two heads and minds facing opposite ways. “One looks toward openness and reform – freedom of...
Bicephalic China: Rising authoritarianism as Chairman Xi Jinping assumes more power, top, but many Chinese still want to follow reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping
SYRACUSE: The fictional Doctor John Doolittle traveled from England to Africa many...
A dozen Turkish tanks and other vehicles have entered the Syrian town of Jarablus, a few kilometers from the border. “President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said the operation was aimed against both IS and Kurdish fighters,” reports BBC News. “Turkey shelled Syrian Kurdish forces in the region this week,...
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In India, a family’s first air conditioner marks upward mobility and the potential to reach the middle class. But the low-cost air conditioners usually contain hydrofluorocarbons, a “supergreenhouse gas,” report Ellen Barry and Coral Davenport of the New York Times. Negotiators from more than 150...
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Read about the historic deal to reduce HFC gases from BBC News.
Researchers at the University of the Philippines, Los Baños, suggest the plant Rinorea niccolifera absorbs nickel, 18,000 parts per million, in its leaves, about 1000 times more metal than present in most other plants. The study was published in the journal PhytoKeys. Researchers expect such...
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