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In the nineteen-seventies, Richard Pryor mined his material—a trove of parody, mimicry, and mannerisms—from the chaos of America’s social scene. The poor and the nouveau riche, the conformists and the hipsters, the religious and the libertine: all were skewered alike.…
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The 2018 midterm elections have been racked with concerns that state voting systems could be vulnerable to attacks by highly skilled Russian intelligence agencies looking to alter poll results. But over the weekend, participants in a hacking conference proved that…
Last week’s rout in emerging market (EM) currencies and other financial assets has produced an influx of capital into safe-haven assets – including Japanese governmental bonds (JGBs), which could possibly thwart Japan’s plans to normalize its monetary policies at home.…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The share of Russia’s dollar-denominated payments with the countries of the European Union is lower than average with all trading partners, the country’s central bank told Sputnik on Monday. Russia’s trade partner with the largest percentage of dollar-denominated payments…
Earlier, a study conducted by a team of scientists led by Bruce Jakosky from the University of Colorado claimed that “terraforming Mars is not possible using present-day technology.” Terraforming is the deliberate modification of a planet’s atmosphere or temperature to…
