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For example, officials recently declared that judicial independence and the separation of powers are “colonial” legacies that should be discarded, with China’s government and Hong Kong’s chief executive, not the local courts, calling all the shots.
Consider the Swedish company Solarus AB, whose innovative business model – manufacturing solar panels out of carbon fibers
discarded
by the aerospace industry – has enabled it to offer competitively priced solar technologies, without support from government subsidies.
Putin has
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former President Dmitri Medvedev’s concept of a “partnership for modernization” with the West.
And so it was that large chunks of humanity in America and Europe became too indebted and too expensive to be anything other than
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– and ready to be lured by Trump’s fear-mongering, French National Front leader Marine Le Pen’s xenophobia, or the Brexiteers’ shimmering vision of a Britannia ruling the waves again.
They should look beyond the ravaged wastelands that communism inflicted, beyond the poverty, and beyond the social divisions through which our
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ex-leaders sought to prolong their misrule.
According to India’s food minister, K.V. Thomas, one-fifth of the food is ultimately discarded, resulting in a huge annual loss just during weddings.
As communism was discarded, so was the concept of the state as an agent around which our collective interests and ambitions could be organized.
On the contrary, financial and economic insecurity has gripped Chinese households since the “iron rice bowl” – the cradle-to-grave support that the socialist state offered workers and their families – was
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in the late 1990’s.
A peasant village raided a hospital dumpster to reclaim
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surgical equipment, wash it in a nearby canal, re-package it in sealed plastic saying “sterilized,” and sell it back to the hospital at cut-rate prices.
Last May, Chinese researchers published the results of a partly successful proof-of-principle attempt to edit genes with a system called CRISPR-Cas9, using nonviable embryos that were going to be
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in any case.
For both leaders, democratic systems are little more than blunt tools that can be used to advance one’s personal ambitions, and then
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at will.
If the test is positive, the pregnancy can be terminated, or, in the case of pre-implantation diagnosis, the embryo will be
discarded.
But I do believe that, for these canards to be discarded, Russia and Ukraine must open themselves to global competition, not isolate themselves with each other.
The question asked periodically during much of the last decade is straightforward: Would Keynes’s
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plan be more appropriate for our post-2008 multipolar world?
Some people – in both countries – viewed the security alliance as a Cold War relic to be
discarded.
In London, the Bike Project refurbishes
discarded
bicycles, and gives them to migrants to serve as affordable transportation.
Of course, such concerns are quickly
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when countries become rich and local workers no longer want to perform menial jobs.
Reliance on financial institutions’ internal models, the major focus of the Basel II agreement on banking regulation, should be
discarded.
With his public bluntness, he has
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his prior coyness and deprived himself of deniability.
Now Russianness itself seems to lack a secure foundation, for it is but a hollow shell of
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state symbols.
Xi has
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one of former Chinese strongman Deng Xiaoping’s most famous dicta: “Hide your strength, bide your time.”
These are frozen and many if not most are
discarded.
If those observations or results contradict the predictions, the theory is discarded, or at least must be modified.
When I do, however, I only succeed (as before) in destroying illusions; ime the naive belief that a solution to the plight of women had been found in the now
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socialist regimes.
Making matters worse, while we
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the finer elements of our traditional culture, we failed to absorb the better aspects of modern civilization.
Most important, Rwandans have
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dangerous and outmoded ethnic labels in favor of a unified national identity built around the values of self-reliance, hard work, and, above all, dignity.
As a result, subsidiarity has become something akin to a marketing gimmick: aspirational and above all discretionary – good for interviews with Sunday papers, but quickly
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when it is inconvenient.
Indeed, the world’s population throws away nearly 10 ounces of gold and five ounces of platinum for every ton of cell phones that are
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in landfills or incinerated.
Other precious metals that are teased from the Earth, including indium, gallium, palladium, and ruthenium, are being
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in much the same way as other electronic waste (e-waste).
Some would manage e-waste at one of the handful of sophisticated smelters that can recover precious metals from
discarded
electronic devices.
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