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The New York Times
The New York Times
Why many companies now take their cues from religious sects DEREK THOMPSON The Atlantic In the third week of September, thousands of people organized themselves into neat lines that snaked along the city blocks of New York, Seattle, London, and dozens of other cities around the world. Sleeping in cardboard boxes, or keeping wakeful vigil through the…
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. In 2012, two massive storms pounded the United States, leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless, hungry or without power for days and weeks. Americans did what they so often do after disasters. They sent hundreds of millions of dollars to…
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Fastcodesign.com In business, finding a polite way to break off a conversation is as tricky as it is critical. Time is money, so you don’t want to chit-chat with a client or a colleague longer than necessary, but respect buys time, so you don’t want to betray any annoyance or impatience. Short of the classic…
Co.DESIGN Go to the pyramids at Giza today, and you’ll see pollution blackened steppes surrounded by smog and sand. Some 4,000 years ago, the pyramids looked much nicer: They were covered in polished limestone, resembling brilliant lightforms dropped into the desert from the sky. In this short documentary put together by the Smithsonian…
François Bugingo Journal de Montréal (…) Dans la lettre envoyée au premier ministre, ses auteurs (parmi lesquelles des personnalités connues du public comme Djemila Ben Habib ou Nabila Ben Youssef) posent des questions pertinentes et rejettent le statut de représentant de la communauté musulmane conféré à ceux qui étaient à la table de discussion avec…
L’actualité Un nouvel épisode de «The Fifth Estate» remet en question l’enquête interne de la CBC sur Jian Ghomeshi, un employé de «Q» disant que sa foi envers le diffuseur public a été ébranlée en raison des doutes sur l’investigation. Le populaire magazine du réseau anglais de Radio-Canada, dans une émission diffusée vendredi et intitulée…
Terra i Poble De 1966 à 1980, le Front de Libération de la Bretagne a revendiqué plus de 200 attentats. Les militants indépendantistes se sont attaqués à tous les symboles de l’Etat, des casernes de gendarmerie jusqu’au Château de Versailles. Après de nombreuses arrestations et condamnations, le FLB mit fin à ses actions avec l’arrivée…