Corona Daily Capsule

Saturday, March 20, 2021

Corona Daily 148: Living in the Right Place

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To get a covid vaccine, where you are is as important as who you are. An article by Allison McCann and Lazaro Gamio in yesterday’s NYT illu...
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Friday, March 19, 2021

Corona Daily 149: A Bahraini Prince in Kathmandu

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This week, on 15 March, a Bahraini prince and Royal guard of sixteen landed at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan international airport. Their luggage co...
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Thursday, March 18, 2021

Corona Daily 150: Dinosaur Bones

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Niger, the largest country in West Africa, has two thirds area in the Sahara desert. Niger gained independence in 1958, after decades of Fre...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Corona Daily 151: The Case of the Vanishing e-books

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Most of us are familiar with e-books, which we read on Kindle. Fewer people know or use e-books from public libraries. USA has the best syst...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Corona Daily 152: Pandora’s Box

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In 1990, I was working and living in Moscow. A Japanese executive working in the same office had requested me to mediate in a delicate assig...
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Monday, March 15, 2021

Corona Daily 153: Yo-Yo Ma and ENO Breathe

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Day before yesterday, at a Massachusetts vaccination site, the vaccinated crowd was sat socially distanced. Post the jab, one must wait for ...
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Sunday, March 14, 2021

Corona Daily 154: Unattended Retail

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Vending machines have been around since the 1880s. In London, you could drop a coin to get a postcard. American machines started by selling ...
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Saturday, March 13, 2021

Corona Daily 155: The Court Hearing that was Viewed a Million Times

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What I am writing here is not a play-script. This took place in a court hearing in Michigan on 2 March. There are four key characters. Mar...
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Friday, March 12, 2021

Corona Daily 156: BFF

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Ilse Kohn and Anne Marie Wahrenburg were born in 1929, in Germany. After their first meeting in the school courtyard, they were inseparable....
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Thursday, March 11, 2021

Corona Daily 157: The Emergent Story: Part Final

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In 2017, just a year after threatening to go bankrupt if the government didn’t bail it out, Emergent spent $200 million acquiring Sanofi’s s...
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