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As President Donald Trump visits China, the Chinese government wishes that billionaire fugitive Guo Wengui would follow suit and board a plane to Beijing. For months, he has regaled the world from his luxury apartment in Manhattan with stories of high-level corruption among China’s elite. Untangling the truth of Guo’s claims is complex, but what the Chinese government wants is

A conversation with sixth-graders Bill Sims Contributing columnist I had the privilege this past week of being invited to speak to over 100 sixth-grade English language arts students and their teachers at the Hillsboro Middle School about writing, and why it’s so important to learn to be a good writer. We talked about the joy and historical importance of writing letters, keeping diaries, painting with words, and poetry. We talked about the value of letters and diaries over time and how they ...

Scientific American Coping Strategies of Ocean Castaways Hold Lessons for the COVID Pandemic Shipwreck victims cast adrift for weeks or months exhibit a resilience that serves as a model to weather any extended crisis Print Salvadoran castaway José Salvador Alvarenga walks out of a hospital on the Marshall Islands with the help of a nurse after floating on the ocean for 438 days on a trip that was initially supposed to take him from Mexico to El Salvador. Credit: Hilary Hosia Advertisement ...

Susan Boyles fellow BGT finalists now – MJ tribute, Ofcom fury and untimely death Susan Boyle shot to fame as she shocked the nation with her performance of I Dreamed A Dream on Britain’s Got Talent in 2009. But where are her fellow finalists now? Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Daily Stars Inside Hot TV newsletter sees Ed Gleave send you tellys hot takes straight to your inbox every SundayInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Yes, keep me in...

The life and times of explorer Isabella Bird – and tips for solo travellers in the Covid age To mark International Women’s Day, delve into the Victorian travellers daring deeds – and the writers recreation of one of her journeys 8 March 2021 • 11:49am Fascinated by Bird’s story, I felt I needed to understand her motivation for undertaking such extreme journeys Credit: GETTY America was no place for tourists in the years surrounding the American Civil War. It was a lawless, dangerous c...

How Fidel Castro Survived Over 600 Assassination Attempts Keystone/Getty Images By Allen McDuffee/Feb. 12, 2021 11:36 am EDT By the time former Cuban leader Fidel Castro died in 2016 at the age of 90, he had become known as a legendary survivor. As a young revolutionary, he was reported dead multiple times, only later to be found very much alive. But it was perhaps the 638 times (per CNN) that Cuban intelligence officials claimed the CIA tried to kill Castro that would earn h...

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