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Hanoi (VNA) – The reign of COVID-19 in Vietnam has been watery and short-lived, in contrast to other countries like Italy or the United States thanks to an unique approach to testing, US-based Borgen Magazine said in a recent article. It is mass-testing which has allowed Vietnamese doctors to practice thorough contact tracing and thus effectively control the spread of cases, the magazine noted. It went on to say despite the tenure of the novel coronavirus in Vietnam and the world, the Vietnamese government remains optimistic about the country’s economy. “The Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR) predicts at least a 5-percent growth in the country’s GDP by the end of 2020, and citizens have already resumed normal economic activities.” “In the midst of a global pandemic, the spirit of Vietnam seems unworried about fiscal matters.” This is due to several governmental factors, it continued; over the past few decades, the … [Read more...] about Reign of COVID-19 in Vietnam short-lived: US magazine

The edition, which goes on sale Wednesday, depicts Erdogan sitting in an armchair half-dressed, with a drink can in his hand. The cartoon also shows the character depicting the Turkish president lifting the dress of a woman interpreted to have given him the drink, exposing her bare rear. … [Read more...] about French Magazine Charlie Hebdo to Publish New Edition With Cover Depicting Turkey’s Erdogan

Emboldened, she trained harder with the support of her family and eventually quit software engineering to play badminton full-time in 2016. Two years later, she joined P. Gopi Chand’s academy in Hyderabad, and became a member of India’s National para-badminton squad. … [Read more...] about Para-badminton World champion feted by Time magazine

In 2001, Kesey spoke of meeting by chance many years after the fact the real-life nurse who had served as (his) Ratched’s inspiration. At far remove he found her “much smaller than I remembered, and a whole lot more human.” It is interesting to note that during the time Kesey worked in the facility on which he based his novel he was augmenting his income with a side gig as a paid experimental subject in military trials of LSD and mescaline. Given his later rather well-documented penchant for hallucinogens, is it hard to imagine Kesey might have engaged in some extracurricular use of these and other substances during his duties on the ward and perhaps these might potentially have tinted his conceptualizations of the (altered) reality around him? Could any (or all) of the novel’s narrator, Chief Bromden’s, nightmarish visions have been transcribed straight from Kesey’s own mind’s chemically-altered perceptions of the perhaps less … [Read more...] about Mad Magazine Would’ve Dubbed Netflix’s ‘Ratched’ ‘Wretched’

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