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Trains, Not Planes or Automobiles, Are the Ticket to European Treks Jun 01 2021, 9:06 PM June 01 2021, 10:45 AM June 01 2021, 9:06 PM (Bloomberg) -- At exactly 8:52 p.m. on May 20, a sleeper train pulled out of the Austerlitz station in Paris, with French Prime Minister Jean Castex on board, to make its inaugural 12-hour, overnight journey to Nice. A flight connecting the cities is normally about 90 minutes, but instead, Castex and about a hundred passengers spent the night on couchett...

What do the next 10 years hold for global higher education? In 2006, an international group of Fulbright New Century Scholars came together to discuss the challenges facing higher education – from massification of higher education and the transformation of higher education from a public good to a private good to the knowledge economy and the impact of new technologies. Fifteen years on, those challenges are still with us and we are also facing the fallout from COVID-19. It is an opportune mo...

The US Will Spend on Nuclear Weapons in the Next Decade,  https://jacobinmag.com/2021/05/military-spending-nuclear-weapons-department-of-defense BY JULIA ROCK, 26 May 21, According to a new Congressional Budget Office report, we're set to spend well over a half a trillion dollars over the next decade on nuclear weapons. Yet we're somehow told that Medicare for All is too expensive. As…

Silver Stevie® Award Winner Bronze Stevie® Award Winners PHC Holding Corporation: John Marotta, President and CEO of PHC Holding All organizations operating in the U.S.A. – large and small, public and private, for-profit and non-profit - are eligible to submit nominations to the ABAs in a wide range of categories, honoring achievement in every aspect of work life, from customer service and management to public relations and product development. More than 3,800 nominations, a record n...

Michael Johnson Adelaide SkyCity recently hosted the 12th AHICE (Australasian Hotel Industry Conference & Exhibition) with leading industry experts at the most prestigious hotel conference in Australasia.  The theme for the 2021 conference was ‘The Next Decade: Planning for the Future of the Australasian Hotel Industry’ and has attracted world-class speakers. The AHICE advisory council made up of leading hoteliers from Australia and New Zealand met to identify the industry’s challenges ...

From a record number of final investment decisions (FIDs) on new liquefaction capacity in 2019 to almost no approvals in 2020, the ups and downs of the LNG market are weeding out the weak from the strong this year. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Brownsville Ship Canal area of Texas. NextDecade, the developer of the Rio Grande project, is all set to proceed, but still needs to nail down additional offtake agreements to secure finance in an LNG market beset by uncertainty. [Gas in Transi...

China shrinking labour force could shun economic growth ANI 13 May 2021, 23:19 GMT+10 Beijing [China], May 13 (ANI): The Chinese economy is growing fast but its shrinking labour force "could place a cap on Chinas potential economic growth" in coming decades, according to a government advisor. The Census data released on Tuesday showed that Chinas total population rose by 5.8 per cent over the past decade -- the slowest pace of growth since at least the 1960s. It also showed the countrys labour ...

Cover of the Integrated Ocean Carbon Research report. In absorbing carbon dioxide, the oceans play a crucial role in regulating the climate, a role yet to be fully understood. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa oceanographer Christopher Sabine co-authored a newly published strategy for comprehensive and coordinated ocean carbon research over the next decade. The new report, IOC). It sets out to accomplish the vital task of indicating the current gaps and future directions for the integrated res...

University of Hawaiʻi Cover of the Integrated Ocean Carbon Research report. In absorbing carbon dioxide, the oceans play a crucial role in regulating the climate, a role yet to be fully understood. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa oceanographer Christopher Sabine co-authored a newly published strategy for comprehensive and coordinated ocean carbon research over the next decade. The ocean currently serves as the “blue lungs” of our planet. However, the ocean’s ability to contribute to cli...

U.S. Ambassador announces additional funds to empower 400,000 Women in Shea Production in West Africa LISTEN 10 HOURS AGO Accra, GHANA - On Tuesday, April 27, 2021, the United States government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Global Shea Alliance (GSA), launched the first-ever virtual Global Shea Alliance International Shea Conference. Spearheaded by GSA, the three-day conference, themed “Building the Industry of the Next Decade,” celebrated GSA’s ...