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Roughly 7 million Americans have received the Pfizer or Moderna coronavirus vaccine but rival superpowers in Moscow and Beijing are using their own shots to immunize their citizens and engage in a form of inoculation diplomacy.
Chaesung Chun, Patrick Cronin and Sang-hyun Lee. The U.S.-South Korea alliance has survived for almost seven decades, and has sustained peace on the Korean peninsula since the Korean War. To thrive going forward, however, the alliance must not only hold open the door to the establishment of peace and denuclearization with North Korea, but expand even further. The U.S.-South Korea alliance should refashion itself to meet urgent global challenges and enhance regional and global prosperity. Although the list of global challenges has rarely been more daunting than it is now—from the pandemic to...
Royal Botanic Gardens is celebrating its 175th birthday with a host of outdoor events Words by Tom Parker Yes, you read right: the Royal Botanic Gardens is turning 175. To celebrate 175 years on this earth, Victoria’s Royal Botanic Gardens (which spans its Melbourne Gardens and Cranbourne Gardens) will be hosting a range of events and activities at both its locations this summer. One of the program standouts will be Garden Gathering Vol. 1. Held in Melbourne Gardens’ Arid and Drylands precinct, this one-day event going down on Saturday February 20 will feature specia...
IT was 40 years ago this week that one of Scotland’s most famous writers, AJ Cronin, passed away in a nursing home in Glion near Montreux in Switzerland at the age of 84. For one short period Archibald Joseph Cronin was the highest-earning novelist in the world, outselling even Agatha Christie, and he is credited with encouraging the foundation of the National Health Service. Cronin was born in Cardross, then in Dunbartonshire but now in Argyll and Bute, on July 19, 1896. In a mixed marriage that was unusual for the west of Scotland in those times, his mother was a Presbyterian named ...
1,682 shares From left: Shira Haas, Doval'e Glickman and Michael Aloni in season 3 of 'Shtisel.' (Ohad Romano/ via JTA) JTA — Reina Rodriguez Taylhardat is a 37-year-old social media manager from Mexico City who was raised “very Catholic” but now identifies as a “light Catholic.” She’s also a huge fan of “Shtisel,” the character-driven 2013 Israeli series about the day-to-day life of a Haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, family. Taylhardat admits that the show, which saw its third season debut Sunday night in Israel on the Yes channel, is slow-paced. But that’s a big reason why...