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Statement on the Passing of Senator Cochran

and international agriculture. Senator Cochran died on Thursday, May 30, 2019 at the age of 81.    Senator Cochran ... to global food security.  Global Food For Thought Global Food & Agriculture Thursday, June 6, 2019 ...

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Elite-Public Gap on China May be Decreasing

But in a Chicago Council survey conducted in early 2019, those numbers may be beginning to shift. Now, 63 percent ... Numbers Public Opinion Monday, April 8, 2019 Public OpinionAsia Karl Friedhoff ...

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Dispatch From Seoul: City of Transportation Extremes

dominated by private cars.   With congestion reaching crisis proportions and transportation generating about ... these few inches make the cars seem unusually spacious.  On-board screens display the next stop (in English) ... the problem is likely to worsen in the next five years.  Mayor Park Won-soon introduced a program in 2017 ...

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This Week's Reads: The Committee to Save the World Order

next. But the story does not have to end that way. The major allies of the United States can leverage ... Microsoft, Facebook, Google—the names of the large US-based tech companies are well known. But the next ... generation of tech companies in the United States could be in danger as venture capital investment grows ...

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Deep Dish: City Diplomacy on the Rise

Both Abeywardena and Normandin speak at the 2019 Pritzker Forum on Global Cities, June 5-7, in Chicago.  Details ... Brian Hanson: I do want to add that today's discussion is a little bit of a preview of the 2019 ... it in migration. I think that the next frontier, the next theme for cities, which is coming up ...