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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 differ with text messaging, emailing and tweeting. I asked the students about what some of the benef...

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 On April 14, 2002, while routinely patrolling the Indian Ocean, a French Navy vessel spotted a dingh...