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The high cost of dying
Illness is the single most frequent cause of bankruptcy in the United States. Of course, the double whammy hits not only the dying but many others who suddenly get sick or who live with…
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U.S.-Cuba human rights dialogue to begin Tuesday: What to expect?
The human rights dialogue between the United States and Cuba that will begin with a meeting in Washington this Tuesday, March 31, will be under attack before it begins.
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Google Ideas is not Google
In order to approach from different directions the possible implications of the visits to Cuba of some Google executives in the past several weeks, Progreso Weekly interviewed engineer…
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How Mies van der Rohe’s Design for a Bacardi HQ in Cuba Became Berlin’s Iconic Neue…
The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, long considered to be Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's final masterpiece, opened in 1968 on a barren stretch of land not far from the border checkpoints of…
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‘I think it stinks’ – still, it works
Last December, when President Obama announced the agreement he reached with President Raúl Castro to restore diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba, you'd have thought…
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Google searches show that millions of people wanted to vote but couldn’t
Much of the recent attention has gone to court battles over voter ID laws. But other barriers to voting remain. Although some states allow voters to register right up to Election Day,…
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Cuba specialists optimistic U.S. trade embargo will end
Phil Peters, president of Cuba Research Center, a nonprofit organization in Alexandria, Virginia, says the U.S. and Cuba have been making progress in normalizing their diplomatic and…
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Revising the national legend, or, the U.S. people don’t know
Filmmaker Louis Alvarez says that social classes in the United States can be harder to identify than the various races or ethnic backgrounds but that, in many ways, that's exactly what…
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Hot issues: Human rights and telecoms
Representatives from Cuba and the United States will meet in Washington next Tuesday (March 31) to discuss the human rights situation in both countries, a Foreign Ministry official said…
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Exclusive: Julian Assange on “When Google Met WikiLeaks” While He was Under House Arrest
The importance of the interview (by Amy Goodman) lies in the exchange of questions and answers that led to Julian Assange to publish a book whose focus is the Google president.
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