Today, 31 October 2015

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    • 553 2 This could happen if America does not stop its ‘provocative acts’in South China Sea ‘CHERISH GOOD SITUATION BETWEEN CHINESE, U.S. NAVIES’ AGENCIES BEIJING/WASHINGTON China’s naval commander told his United States counterpart that a minor incident could lead to confrontation in the
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    • 885 4 World’s No 2 economy should push ahead with political reforms they say CHINA NEEDS TO THINK LONG TERM, BEYOND POPULATION GROWTH AGENCIES B E I J I N G The “one-child” policy change announced by the Communist Party on Thursday
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    • 433 4 THE NEW YORK TIMES The Chinese Communist Party’s historic decision to ease its restrictions on the number of children all married couples are allowed to have, thereby turning its decades-old “one-child” policy into a “two-child” policy, was met with
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    • 409 4 AGENCIES SINGAPORE —China’s decision to end its one-child policy offered a boost to baby-related stocks yesterday, on expectations that the end of the three-decade policy would give a lift to dairy producers and those that sell products for infants. China
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    • 578 5 In blog post he asks why In blog post, he asks why testing of new trains was done during major exam period SINGAPORE New trains need to be tested, but it is questionable whether they needed to be tested
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    • 595 5  -  ALBERT WAI albertwai@mediacorp.com.sg GUANGZHOU China’s proposal for a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road can be a pathway towards a “peaceful and prosperous Asian Community”, said Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday, adding that one of the ways to achieve
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    • 832 6  -  ACCUSED CLAIMS OLDER VICTIM THREATENED HIM WITH KNIFE KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SING A PORE —His best-laid plans to clear a bank debt by robbing car workshop owner Tan Boon Sin fell apart because he overlooked putting batteries into a dummy CCTV camera
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    • 485 6 KELLY NG SINGAPORE A year after getting married, Iskandar Rahmat split from his wife and ended up with debts of close to half a million dollars, resulting from housing, car and renovation loans. Even after selling his Tampines flat and having his car
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    • 344 7 SINGAPORE The response to the new Proximity Housing Grant (PHG) has been “most encouraging”, with more than one in five home buyers applying for the grant since it took effect on Aug 24, National Development Minister Lawrence Wong said in a blog post yesterday. The
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    • 344 7 (2nd Edition) SINGAPORE The response to the new Proximity Housing Grant (PHG) has been “most encouraging”, with more than one in five home buyers applying for the grant since it took effect on Aug 24, National Development Minister Lawrence Wong said in a blog post yesterday. The
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    • 9 8 WORLD EMISSIONS CURBS WILL SLOW TEMPERATURE RISE: UN 14
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  • voices
    • 316 10  -  FROM AIDA GREENBURY Managing director, chief sustainability, Asia Pulp Paper Group In the letter “How APP can clear the smoke” (Oct 29), a comparison was drawn between Asia Pulp Paper Group and another company’s conservation commitment of 70,000ha. We feel this is misleading
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    • 533 10  -  FROM GEOFFREY KUNG In “The silver lining in ageing” (Oct 20), the writer highlighted the economic leverage Singapore’s silver population possesses. Her estimate of our elderly population’s “high spending power” is a result of the pioneer generation’s savings habit, compared with those
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    • QUICK HITS
      • 81 10  -  FRANKIE WONG CHEE KIN I refer to the report “Rail maintenance expenses to account for half of rail revenue: SMRT” (Oct 28).TheSMRT board has declared an interim dividend of 1.5 cents per ordinary share, but should not SMRT consider ploughing back the accumulated
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      • 60 10  -  CHENG SHOONG TAT To encourage motorists thinking of switching to the greener hybrid vehicles, the Land Transport Authority should review its formula for computing the road taxes payable on such vehicles. The formula should require lower road taxes on petrol-electric vehicles
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  • singapore
    • 477 12  -  DR POH ENG KEE IS A RECIPIENT OF THIS YEAR’S DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY PRIZE STACEY LIM staceylim@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Two years ago, American investigators took two months to find the truck driver who had disrupted the air-traffic control system at Newark airport in
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    • 477 12  -  AMANDA LEE SINGAPORE What students like doing in their free time, what their interests are, and whether they are driven by action or are more analytical by nature: These are questions Ms Kua Yen Peng, a banker-turned-school counsellor, asks
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    • 328 12  -  STACEY LIM SINGAPORE —Over the last 30 years, he has had a role in the development of customised solutions for artillery weapons for the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), from the first to the third generation of weapons. Mr Teo Chew Kwee, chief engineer for
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    • 663 13  -  TOH EE MING toheeming@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E Foreigners who are turned away from entering Singapore and awaiting repatriation may have to pay for any transportation and accommodation costs incurred because of their denial of
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    • 370 13 m mi T m i 5Penang ass ITINERARY DAY 1 (DEC 17) SINGAPORE PENANG (MOB) Head to Marina Bay Cruise Centre for embarkation from 11am. (Note: last check-in for cruise is at 2.30pm) Join in a meet and greet session with Lee Teng for an up-close-and-personal photo opportunity. Enjoy to
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  • world
    • 430 14 NATIONS PLANNING MEASURES TO CUT 4 BILLION TONNES OF CARBON EMISSIONS BY 2030 REUTERS OSLO Plans by about 150 countries to curb greenhouse gas emissions will slow climate change this century and keep alive a goal of limiting a rise in temperatures to
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    • 1071 15 FINANCIAL TIMES KUALA LUMPUR/HONG KONG It is an international mystery featuring tropical islands, a Saudi oil company and the fate of billions of dollars of Malaysian state investment fund money. It is also a central enigma in a scandal that has engulfed the South-east Asian country
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  • business
    • 414 16  -  NEW PLAN AIMS TO AUGMENT TRANSITION TO SUSTAINABLE GROWTH RUMI HARDASMALANI rumih@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In an attempt to help food companies transition towards more sustainable growth led by a leaner workforce and improved productivity, the Government will proactively help them adopt
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    • 588 16  -  RUMI HARDASMALANI SINGAPORE DBS, South-east Asia’s biggest bank, is quietly editing its India strategy to shift focus from retail banking to being the lender of choice for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and is accordingly fine-tun-ing its local branch
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    • 305 16  -  LEE YEN NEE S I N G A P O R E South-east Asia’s third-largest lender, United Overseas Bank (UOB), posted a 1 per cent year-on-year drop in net profit for the third quarter, but beat expectations due to strong core income and
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    • 139 17 Sat, 31 Oct 2015 Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza, from 1pm May The Best Hand Win! Who will win this year’s MediaCorpSubaru Car Challenge? Join us this weekend to cheer on the contestants as they weather the elements for a brand-new Subaru XV 1.6 I-S with COE and $5,000 worth
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  • sports
    • 1428 18  -  BOTH SIDES ARE EVEN IN ALMOST ALL AREAS, BUT CARTER’S SUBLIME KICKING AND VISION IN A CLASS OF ITS OWN JUSTIN SAMPSON sports@mediacorp.com.sg TODAY guest columnist Justin Sampson coached the Singapore national rugby team from 1996 to 2002. He is also a
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    • 1024 19  -  SHAHIRON SAHARI shahirons@mediacorp.com.sg The writer, TODAY’S Executive Chief Sub-editor, was a former national rugby player, and played for local clubs Singapore Cricket Club, Wanderers and St Andrew’s Old Boys Association. 1THE BARE FACTS This final is between a side that have never
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    • 1220 20  -  ADRIAN CLARKE sports@mediacorp.com.sg Adrian Clarke is a former Arsenal midfielder who has played at every level of the English game. Now an experienced sports journalist, he writes for many international publications. Fickleness in football should never surprise us. Five months ago, Jose Mourinho gleefully held
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    • 631 21  -  The Spaniard, in both the singles and doubles semis, is set to play four matches over two days NOAH TAN noahtanyw@mediacorp.com.sg ruza would beg to differ. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY AMANPREETSINGH SING A PORE Garbine Muguruza is used to strolling to victory in Singapore, but yesterday was
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    • 657 22  -  Filipino quartet to challenge themselves in Great Eastern Women’s Run ROUGHLY 17,000 WOMEN WILL TACKLE DISTANCES RANGING FROM 5KM TO A HALF-MARATHON LOW LIN FHOONG linf hoong@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE By day, they are live-in domestic helpers hired to cook, clean and tend to their
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    • 499 22  -  NOAH TAN SINGAPORE With more than 100 fans watching in eager anticipation, Caroline Wozniacki took careful aim and swung her racquet with an elegant forehand at the tennis ball. To nobody’s surprise, the ball landed right smack on
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    • 53 23 SPIN CITY AN ARTIST AND HIS ORCHESTRA OF SPIDERS WEAVE A STUNNING CONTEMPLATION OF THE WEB OF LIFE EAT WELL THE FINGER PLAYERS’ SEED IS A SATISFYING LOOK AT THE BINDING NATUREOFFOOD 26 26 24 NOVEMBER REIGNS SINGAPORE’S PERFORMANCE SCENE HEATS UP WITH AN ABUNDANT AND MOTLEY LINE-UP ARTWORK: KENNETH
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    • culture&lifestyle
      • 165 24 It’s a clash of battle royal proportions when the works of two big international names hit the stage. First up is the all-male stage version of A Clockwork Orange, the classic dystopian masterpiece by the late author Anthony Burgess that was
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      • Article, Illustration
        353 24  -  GET READY FOR A FLURRY OF SHOWS NEXT MONTH IN THEATRE AND BEYOND MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg When it rains, it pours. And if you thought the mania surrounding Singapore’s performance scene has tapered off because we’re nearing the end of the year, think again: November’s calendar is
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      • 227 24 Don’t overlook our local scene: Two homegrown classics are also making its way back. The latest version of Michael Chiang and Dick Lee’s Beauty World will be getting a “darker” and more realistic treatment courtesy of Lee, who’ll be directing. Celebrity Jeanette Aw
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      • 327 25 Most of the shows this month are pretty much of the conventional sort. But there are others that take it a step further, whether it has to do with food, installation performances or even performance art. Skinned Knee Productions’ follow-up to
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      • 292 25 Who’s up for a load of laughs? From a wild Bollywood-in-spired romp to a Hans Christian Andersen musical panto to a Peranakan musical about gamblers, local theatre groups have got it covered. One of the productions in the inaugural Peranakan Arts Festival
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      • 558 26  -  The Finger Players ruminate on food and life THEATRE REVIEW: SEED MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE “Eat well, live well. Isn’t that what life is all about?” In some other context, these words projected onstage during the final scene of Seed might come across as a trite cliched. But
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      • Article, Illustration
        614 26  -  Spiders help weave an artful reflection on social communication ART REVIEW: ARACHNID ORCHESTRA. JAM SESSIONS BRUCE QUEK features@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE For most of us, spiders are a scurrying pest to be shooed gently out the door, or something to recoil from on a nature trail. (We may even feel
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 1140 28 CHANNEL CHANNEL tellchannel5@mediacorp.com.sg tellchannel8@mediacorp.com.sg 6.00AM My Genie II 6.30 Easy Cooking 7.00 A Song To Remember (HD)(PG) 9.00 Pleasant Goat And Big Big Wolf VI 9.30 Chicken Stew: Tales From The Salted Egg Temple 10.00 Magic Institute (HD) 10.30 Little Counsellor Season 1 and 4 (HD) 11.00 It’s A Small
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    • 1164 29 CHANNEL CHANNEL tellchannel5@mediacorp.com.sg tellchannel8@mediacorp.com.sg CHANNEL 6.00AM The Records Challenge 7 .00 A Song To Remember (HD) (PG-Some Violence) 9.00 Math’s Island Series 3 (HD) 9.30 Doraemon TV Special 10.00 Super Family 2 (HD) 10.30 Little Detective (HD) 11.00 Tuesday Report: Lifeline (HD) 11.30 Hey Gorgeous 2015 (HD) 12.30PM Renaissance 1.00
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  • 1127 1  -  By BEN BRANTLEY INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Minsk, Belarus THE TIDY AND anonymous room, which is entered through a fenced courtyard in a sleepy residential neighborhood of this Eastern European city, is not large. It was once a garage, just big enough to accommodate a few sedans or,
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  • 1092 1  -  Russian Ships Operate Near Vital Data Cables By DAVID E. SANGER, ERIC SCHMITT INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY WASHINGTON Russian submarines and spy ships are aggressively operating near the vital undersea cables that carry almost all global Internet communications, raising concerns among some American military and intelligence officials
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  • WORLD TRENDS
    • 961 2  -  INTELLIGENCE‘ NOAH RICHLER Noah Richler is an author and broadcaster. Send comments to intelligence@nytimes.com. THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Toronto The resounding demand for change that saw the Liberal leader Justin Trudeau sweptintothe Canadian prime minister’s office, and Stephen Harper out of it,
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; SEAN KILPATRICK/CP, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  961 words
    • 614 2  -  By CHOE SANG-HUN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY SEOUL, South Korea Nearly 20 years ago, Lee Geung-ja was working at a factory in North Korea when an accident with melting plastic left her face scarred and discolored. Most of her left eyebrow
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    • 546 3  -  MOSS JOURNAL By ANDREW HIGGINS THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY MOSS, Norway Like many Europeans, Marianne Haaland Bogdanoff, a travel agency manager in this southern Norwegian town, does not go to church, except maybe at Christmas, and doubts the existence of God.
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; MAURICIO LIMA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  546 words
    • 855 3  -  By JODI RUDOREN, RAMI NAZZAL THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY RAMALLAH, West Bank The Palestinian teenagers who came one after another into the True Love gift and music shop on a recent afternoon all had the same request: nationalistic songs the new ones. The
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; RINA CASTELNUOVO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  855 words
    • 580 4  -  LENS ALAN MATTINGLY THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY scribed how, with services like Airbnb, some large houses in residential areas have become party destinations, featuring all the behavior one might predict. Mr. Lieber rented what he called “one of the most notorious
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    • 764 5  -  NEWS ANALYSIS By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Boys are falling behind. They graduate from high school and attend college at lower rates than girls and are more likely to get in trouble. This gender gap exists across the United
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; CARL KIILSGAARD FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  764 words
    • 762 6  -  By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY MILAN In one photograph, a pretty, young Eritrean woman dressed in cheerful colors smiles brightly into the camera. In another, glazed eyes stare out of a blue, bloated face, typical of drowning victims. But
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    • 741 6  -  By NICOLA CLARK THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY PARIS Days after two gunmen burst into the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on January 7, slaughtering nearly a dozen of his colleagues, Laurent Sourisseau propped himself up in his hospital
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  • MONEY & BUSINESS
    • 821 8  -  By KEITH BRADSHER THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY PUNE, India Play-Doh, Monopoly and practically all of Hasbro’s other toys were made in China for decades. Now Hasbro is moving aggressively into India, attracted by its plentiful and inexpensive labor pool. Other multinationals
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    • 638 8  -  NEWS ANALYSIS By NEIL GOUGH THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY HONG KONG China’s bungled stock market bailout was a significant setback to its decades-long efforts to build a modern financial system. Its currency devaluation shocked global investors and altered the policy calculus at central
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  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    • 685 9  -  By DAVID GELLES THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Growing up in Moscow, David Gorodyansky listened to his grandfather tell stories about fighting the Nazis during World War II. His grandfather was an aerial photographer who flew sorties to take pictures of
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; JASON HENRY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  685 words
    • 787 9  -  ANAHAD O’CONNOR THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Health experts have warned for years that smartphones, television screens and the hectic pace of modern life are disrupting natural sleep patterns, fueling an epidemic of sleep deprivation. By some estimates, Americans sleep two to three
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; DAVID KITWOOD/GETTY IMAGES  -  787 words
    • 804 10  -  By ERIK OLSEN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY BERLIN In a brightly lit room at the Museum of Natural History here, stacks of wooden drawers are covered in glass, some panes so dusty that it is difficult to discern exactly what’s inside. When
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; MIKE TERRY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; TOP LEFT AND BELOW, THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, BERLIN  -  804 words
    • 497 10  -  By JAMES GORMAN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY For years, Ansoumane Doumbouya was Guinea’s top official for wildlife protection. He was also the country’s representative to meetings of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. Now he
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  • THE WAY WE EAT
    • 844 11  -  By JEFF GORDINIER THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY COPENHAGEN “Welcome to the new Noma,” the chef René Redzepi said one bright day. “This is it.” Mr. Redzepi, 37, the godfather of the New Nordic movement and the chef at Noma, arguably the
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; PHOTOGRAPHS BY LAERKE POSSELT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  844 words
    • 727 11  -  By WILLIAM GRIMES THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY The first show at the Museum of Food and Drink’s new space in Brooklyn is “Flavor: Making It and Faking It,” and it wastes no time in getting to the point. “What makes your favorite food
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    • 574 12  -  By CARL ZIMMER THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Like many biologists, Ricardo C. Rodríguez de la Vega searches the world for new species. But while other scientists venture into the depths of the ocean or the heart of the jungle, Dr. Rodríguez de
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    • 493 12  -  By ROBERT SIMONSON THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY The Mexican bulldog is a crude and popular concoction in which a bottle of beer (typically Corona) is upended into a frozen margarita; as the cocktail is sipped through a straw, more beer slowly trickles
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  • ARTS & DESIGN
    • 629 13  -  By ALEXANDRA ALTER THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Cecil Baldwin was hunched over a microphone in his living room in Brooklyn, recording a community radio show. In a soothing baritone, he read off a mix of local news, the weather report
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  629 words
    • 885 13  -  By MELENA RYZIK THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY For months the eyes of the world have been focused on the plight of Syrian refugees, following families as they make harrowing treks across borders. Meanwhile, Abounaddara, a celebrated Syrian film collective, has been trailing
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