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A new analysis of China's fisheries subsidies reveals decreasing transparency in reporting and continued heavy subsidization of their distant water fleet, but also documents a drop in domestic subsidy spending. Though the use of government subsidies is widespread, they often incentivize harvest that would otherwise be unprofitable - and unsustainable. Indeed, the Chinese government's 13thfive-year ... Read more
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A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that has kept the Sacramento City Unified School District in court for nearly 13 years fending off a challenge to the Waldorf teaching method used in two district schools. People for Legal and Non-Sectarian Schools, or PLANS Inc., sued the district in 1998, claiming the method is inextricably linked to anthroposophy - the philosophy of Waldorf method founder Rudolf Steiner. The suit contended anthroposophy is a religion and that its use in...
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Wise speculates on the involvement of J.R.R. Tolkien in the group nomination of E.M Forster for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954; he discusses not only the politics behind the nomination but reads Forster's Howards End and A Passage to India in the light of the tension between Tolkien's interests in nationalism and inter-racial cooperation.
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This week, Donald Trump's claim of "absolute immunity" from prosecution in his federal election inference case will be put to the test in court.
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