America

2022 - 6 - 25

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Meet America's Change Makers (American Chemistry Council)

These dedicated and passionate individuals are finding new ways to make plastics lighter, stronger, more efficient… and more recyclable.

Also, be sure to check out America’s Change Makers on our website. I expressed to management that I’d like to be a part of improving sustainable solutions in our industry. I like the idea of becoming more sustainable. By linking innovation with sustainability, America’s Change Makers are changing the way plastics are made, used, and remade. After she graduated from college, Natalie found her way to ExxonMobil, where she started her career as a materials engineer. And to create the innovative products we all need to build a more sustainable future.

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Russia's digital nomads head for Latin America (Financial Times)

We'll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Americas society news every morning. On café terraces in Buenos Aires the distinct sound of the ...

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America's heroes – right or wrong (Aljazeera.com)

This week, the US's mercurial relationship with true and manufactured heroes was on quixotic display.

The locusts promised to find Ms Moss and lynch her. And they no longer help other Americans to vote. I felt it was all my fault,” Ms Moss said. The locusts invaded her grandmother’s home to make a “citizen’s arrest”. “Simply because what he did the first time, before COVID, was so good for the country. The FBI urged Ms Freeman to leave home. Ms Moss took a long, reassuring breath before she began answering the committee’s questions. And for me to do that because somebody just asked me to, is foreign to my very being. They blared through loudspeakers that he was corrupt and a paedophile. Instantly. For a lot of Americans, it’s reassuring, I suppose, to believe that it is still possible for heroes to be made in America. Instead, he said this: “It is a tenet of my faith; that the Constitution is divinely inspired. They upset his “gravely ill” daughter who died in 2021.

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TOM LEONARD: America's never been more riven. And the future ... (Daily Mail)

TOM LEONARD: At least 11 people, including four doctors and a policeman, have been killed in violence against abortion providers over the decades.

Even after the Roe vs Wade decision guaranteed a woman's right to an abortion in 1973, conservative states limited access to abortion clinics and pushed through laws to restrict access. Texas has similar laws, encouraging citizens to earn a $10,000 bounty by filing a lawsuit against anyone who performs an abortion, assists in one – or, indeed, even looks like performing one in the future. The Democrats have promised to fight the Supreme Court decision tooth and nail but their political options are limited. Not least because the Supreme Court justices have made it clear that yesterday's decision could open the door for courts to overturn a range of hard-won civil rights. In fact it was the main reason that many Christian conservatives overcame their distaste for his tawdry personal behaviour and voted for him. 'Even people who are not pro-choice are going to find it really, really off the wall when a woman goes across a state line [to get an abortion] and she gets arrested,' he has said.

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'It leaves you speechless': Australian storm chaser captures ... (The Guardian)

Each year photographer Krystle Wright heads to the midwest, drawn by the majestic supercell storms and tornados that can turn blue skies into black fury.

“I think at this point the story for me is that it is an environment; not only is it a storm environment, but it’s also the land of the midwest,” Wright says. It’s a bit sadistic, really,” she says. “The American midwest is the folklore of storm chasing. “At one point this year we were chasing a high intensity day through Minnesota,” she says. “It leaves you speechless,” she says. “It’s amazing,” she says.

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