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Environment
‘Dangerous and strong’ winds threaten to spread hell in Los Angeles
Snohomish County, Washington firefighters are working to extinguish a fire behind a home in the Mandeville Canyon area. US authorities warned on Sunday that “dangerous and strong” winds would further spread a deadly wildfire into residential areas of Los Angeles as firefighters battled to extinguish the blaze. At least 16 people were confirmed dead in the blaze that tore through…
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Other Sciences
Nobel Prize in Economics: How colonial history explains why strong institutions are essential to a nation’s prosperity
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain This year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics went to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and James Robinson of the University of Chicago for their research into why there are such wide differences in prosperity between nations. In announcing the award, Jacob Svensson, chairman of the Economics Prize Committee, said: “Closing…
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