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You Might Like � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium How India and the U.S. Succeeded at the G20 Without China's Xi - Time    Xi Jinping's decision to stay away from the Group of 20 summit may have been intended to deny India its moment. Instead, Prime Minister Narendra Modi — along with the U.S. and Europe — figured out how to more effectively counter China on the world stage. Fellow G20 nations hailed India's success in reaching agreement on a joint communique that remained in doubt just days before world leaders gathered in New Delhi for their most significant annual diplomatic event. Apart from finding consensus on Russia's war in Ukraine, the most difficult issue, they also elevated the African Union as a full G20 member and took action on issues like climate change and debt sustainability that are priorities of emerging markets. The final outcome irked Ukraine, which saw the compromise on war language as weaker than what leaders produced just 10 months ago in Bali, Indonesia. But for the U.S. and its allies, criticism of a communique that on substance was similar to Bali and has little impact on the ground is a small price to pay for giving Modi a win that bolsters India's status as a rising power capable of blunting China's global influence. Continued here You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Moderna's Updated Covid Vaccine Is Effective Against Pirola Variant—As Concern Over New Strain Grows - Forbes    Moderna's updated Covid vaccine provokes a "strong immune response" against fast-spreading coronavirus variants "Pirola," "Fornax" and "Eris," the company said Wednesday, amid a late summer wave of infections across the country and as governments prepare to launch fall booster campaigns. Moderna said early data from its clinical trial found the updated shot prompted an 8.7-fold increase in neutralizing antibodies against the circulating BA.2.86 variant, also called "Pirola." Neutralizing antibodies produced by the immune system target invading viruses like the coronavirus and can stop them from replicating and higher amounts in the blood in the trial suggest there is some greater degree of protection against infection or severe disease. Continued here You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Staying Alive: Mary Oliver on How Books Saved Her Life and the Greatest Antidote to Sorrow - The Marginalian    “There are perhaps no days of our childhood that we lived as fully,” Proust wrote in contemplating why we read, “as the days we think we left behind without living at all: the days we spent with a favourite book.” And yet childhoods come in varied hues, some much darker than others; some children only survive by leaving the anguish of the real world behind and seeking shelter in the world of books. Among them was the poet Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935–January 17, 2019), who recounts the redemptive refuge of reading and writing in her essay “Staying Alive,” found in Upstream: Selected Essays (public library) — the radiant collection of reflections that gave us Oliver on the artist’s task and the central commitment of the creative life. Looking back on her barely survivable childhood, ravaged by pain which Oliver has never belabored or addressed directly — a darkness she shines a light on most overtly in her poem “Rage” and discusses obliquely in her terrific On Being conversation with Krista Tippett — she contemplates how reading saved her life: Continued here

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