Jul 02, 2014 16:46
- Al Jazeera shares Sarah Kendzior's argument that the disappearance of shopping malls will not mean the automatic return of downtowns in many cities, and notes the migration of many young Americans--including Vietnamese-Americans--to a booming Vietnam.
- Business Week observes that in higher education, China wants more people with vocational degrees and fewer academics, while comments that the use of Minnan dialect by China's spokesperson to Taiwan isn't doing much to encourage reunification.
- The CBC shares the request of American retailer target to its customers to please leave their guns home, and notes a finding in Québec that penalized Wal-Mart for closing down a store there after its workforce became unionized.
- National Geographic notes evidence from an Archaeopreryx fossil that feathers evolved before flight, and comments on the cultural and other issues that make fighting the Ebola epidemic in West Africa so difficult.
- Universe Today notes there are no lunar seas on the far side of the Moon because of the heat of the Earth in the Moon's early days reached only the near side, and comments on the evidence of asteroid impacts on the surface of Vesta.
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