By Kevin Liu What will happen to ObamaCare? As the next presidential election approaches, President Barack Obama will be leaving his office within the next few months (vacate by January of 2017). So the question is, what will happen to his best …
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By Michael Yang In this increasingly digital age, more and more students prefer taking notes by typing, rather than by writing things down by hand. Though many students believe that taking notes by laptop may enhance one’s academic performance, studies show that …
Read More »4 Reasons School is Good
By Iris Yuan More often than not, the thought of school brings groans and fake crying. We’re so used to associating school with bad feelings that we don’t even think about the benefits of school. Although high schoolers now may groan in …
Read More »Note 7 explosions are a health concern—and a threat to Samsung’s image
By Edwin Yu Since early September, there have been 96 reported cases of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 exploding in the United States alone, including 13 reports of burns and 47 reports of property damage. The phones started to explode because the …
Read More »Film Recommendation: ‘Chungking Express’: the love stories of meeting and losing
Submitted by our chapter in Shanghai, China By: Ubik Sun Hi everyone, I am Ubik, a student director and writer who likes film, traveling, cake, magic and board games. As a film lover, I always talk with my friends about the films …
Read More »Paying Farmers to Go Organic
Submitted by: Stephanie Zhang Back in the 1980s, farmer Wendell Naraghi tried to appeal to the organic sector of customers. It was a flop. “Basically, we stopped because no one paid me,” Mr. Naraghi said. “There just was no market premium for …
Read More »South Asia’s Medical Vow
As disaster after disaster, and epidemic after epidemic ravages the largest continent or our world, South and East Asian governments agreed to increase funding for health emergencies. The World Health Organization, or WHO, held a meeting with eleven countries in the region …
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