Новости за 16.09.2021

ROMÁN JUÁREZ has expanded his tomato farm several times since starting it 15 years ago. It now spans two separate sites in a rural area of the state of Puebla, south-east of Mexico City. In a good season, each one of the 38,000 plants he grows in his large, greenhouse-like tents can produce up to 160 tomatoes. Although farming can be risky, Mr Juárez is prospering, mostly because since 2016 he has exported his produce to the United States. “We do business where there is business,” he says.

“IN PERONISM, YOU always get laid.” When Victoria Tolosa Paz, the Peronist who is the government’s leading candidate for the lower house of Congress in the province of Buenos Aires, said this in an interview she found herself with a viral campaign line. But while Ms Tolosa Paz, an accountant, was happy to talk about sex, she appeared to ignore more serious issues. In a country where annual inflation is over 50% and unemployment is in double digits, voters have other concerns. In a nationwide vote on September 12th... Читать дальше...

“IT LIES PROTECTED behind its rampart mountains, insulated from the stormy physical and intellectual weather of both coasts,” Wallace Stegner wrote of Salt Lake City. The novelist associated his adopted hometown, where he spent much of the 1920s and 30s, with an “isolationism” and “provincialism” afforded by its Mormon heritage and its snug seat between the Wasatch Range and the Great Salt Lake. These features remain; but gaze upon the city’s bustling downtown today from a perch in the nearby... Читать дальше...

MASS CONSCRIPTION in wartime is a remote prospect in America. But were a draft called, the country’s conscripts might soon look very different. An amendment to the annual defence policy bill winding its way through Congress would make women eligible for the military draft for the first time. On September 2nd it passed the House Armed Services Committee. “It’s past time,” declared Congresswoman Chrissy Houlahan, a former Air Force officer and lead sponsor of the amendment. Coupled with the success of a similar provision in the Senate... Читать дальше...

PATRONS OF natural-juice bars and yoga studios are all too familiar with the phrase “my body is a temple”. They may not know its biblical provenance: “Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you,” says the New Testament. Elsewhere it warns: “If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him.”

AFTER MONTHS of begging Americans to get themselves vaccinated, President Joe Biden has stopped asking nicely. On September 9th the Biden administration announced a requirement to be vaccinated or tested regularly that will affect everyone who works for a private company with more than 100 employees plus the federal workforce, broadly defined. That is about 100m Americans in all, 25m of whom are not vaccinated. Will it work?

ONCE UPON a time, no speech by Boris Johnson was complete without a promise to “defeat the coronavirus”. Yet his address on September 14th setting out his covid-19 plans for the winter ahead was a more modest affair. The best the prime minister could come up with was a vow to “turn jabs, jabs, jabs into jobs, jobs, jobs”.

ONE OF THE highlights of a visit to the royal palace at Stirling Castle is a series of seven tapestries depicting the “Hunt of the Unicorn”, recreated from a set woven in the 16th century. For now, they outnumber modern unicorns—startups worth more than $1bn—born in Scotland. But not, perhaps, for long.

GENERAL PRACTITIONERS are miserable. “We like to see patients face to face. That’s what we trained for, that’s what we want to do, that’s what we prefer to do, and that’s how we know we are making the best decisions,” says Caroline Taylor, who runs a surgery in Halifax, Yorkshire. The situation “is emotionally very challenging for everyone. It’s very draining.”

THE CARS on Britain’s roads are changing. According to the World Economic Forum, a global think-tank, more than a tenth of new cars sold in 2020 were powered by electricity. That is below the levels seen in some other parts of northern Europe, but four times as high as in America. And the shift from fossil fuels to electricity looks set to accelerate. Government plans to decarbonise the economy will require the number of battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs) on Britain’s roads to rise from around 100,000 currently to 3m by 2025... Читать дальше...

FROM OUTSIDE, the towers rise like steeples; inside, the ceiling soars. In the 1930s one wing was decorated with Italian marble. Yet this former power station had lain derelict since 1983, surrounded by post-industrial wasteland. Now workers are swarming around it. From the roof more development is visible. Two new rail stations open on September 20th.

IN JUNE 2016 Nigel Farage, then the leader of the UK Independence Party, unveiled a poster showing a line of refugees. “BREAKING POINT”, it screamed, in red letters. “We must break free of the EU and take back control of our borders.” Boris Johnson, a leading light in the main Leave campaign, sniffily described it as “not my politics”. But perhaps it revealed something, he suggested. If Britain left the EU, people might calm down about immigration.

FEW SIGHTS are more pitiful than a child of three, hammer in hand, breaking big rocks into smaller ones to sell for pennies. Such scenes are considered so abhorrent in rich and poor countries alike that the convention of the International LabourOrganisation (ILO) which outlaws “the worst forms of child labour” (including soldiering, slavery and prostitution) last year became the first to be ratified by all 187 of its members.

SOMETHING IS ROTTEN with the state of American capitalism. That, at least, is the sentiment in Washington, DC. Democrats and Republicans argue over the rot’s causes. Progressives blame corporate fat cats. Conservatives finger feckless regulators. But there seems to be agreement across the ideological spectrum that American enterprise isn’t what it used to be: less dynamic and more monopolistic at home, and having its lunch unfairly nibbled by Chinese and other rivals abroad.

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The woking class

Your warning on the dangers of wokeism would leave many of the old thinkers on the left turning in their graves (“Out of the academy”, September 4th). The stunt pulled by the illiberal left is their assertion that they are the champions of the marginalised. I do not doubt many are sincere, just as the leaders of the Catholic church were sincere in the Inquisition. Religious fundamentalists of all sorts are sincere. Читать дальше...

In X-Men #6, readers will be introduced to the mutant version of Captain America - but some are not too keen on the newcomer, including Cyclops.

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COMMENTARY: Robert Buckland was right to state that ‘justice is beyond price’ in parting shot to PM

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6 NDRF teams deployed as Odisha rivers flow above danger mark, Hirakud dam opens more gates

The issue is a thorn in the side of both Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since the particles suggest Iran once had undeclared nuclear material at three different locations, but the IAEA has yet to obtain satisfactory answers from Iran on how the material got there or where it went.

Sports Mole looks at how Manchester City could line up in Saturday's Premier League clash with Southampton.

For the second year, the Lights and Lasers show will be held at Canyon Springs Golf Course instead of Shoshone Falls, organizers announced Thursday.

Newcastle United manager Steve Bruce opens up on issues around the Magpies' summer transfer business and the issues he faces with his squad.