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Before Aristotle Andronicus’s autocratic clubs and Delilah’s lacerating dinner-table squabbles, there was the aristocratic leanings of Debussy and the sweetly sentimental impulses of Chopin. The creative output of this most serious of composers is…
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Written by By David Olive, CNN Move over, stagflation. The US economy is now teetering on the brink of inflation . Although the problems have been brewing for some time, it’s not yet clear…
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For Chris Daughtry and his family, the events that unfolded Sunday night following the death of their 5-year-old daughter Avery shook the musician to his core. “This is truly a freak accident,” Daughtry wrote…
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Almost four hours of flight, one of which reached suborbital, is said to be record for longest hypersonic flight Two US military suborbital rockets blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida late Thursday, one…
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Formerly called the Canadair Flamingo, the MD-82 sits on the tarmac at Tegel Airport in Berlin in April. (Anas Meghji/DPA/AP Images) Transportation security officials are trying to stop a large unauthorized weapons shipment from…
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Canada has weighed in, calling for greater vigilance about Canada’s humanitarian obligations, and issuing “an open call for additional humanitarian support.” Yet the Canadian government has until this point failed to do the hard…
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BBC Environment Your money may not buy you sympathy when you hear about the environmental and social crisis facing the planet, but, provided you set up the appropriate accounts and are ready to pay…
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The hotel is one of many abandoned structures in the town A hotel that was once the world’s first floating hotel may have finally reached its end. The…
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Written by By Matt Miller, CNN What’s that fearsome-looking plant that keeps popping up in places where we’re supposed to be looking to avoid accidents? It’s the ugly, invasive “cow parsnip,” and it poses…
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Written by Eunice Oh, CNN We’re familiar with the many masks used by Asian and Asian-American communities to preserve face expressions and identity. But many masked populations in Europe, America and the UK often…
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