China New Strategy for Power: Taxing Condoms to Mint "Baby Currency"

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The Price of Power: China Bets on "Baby Currency" for Future Growth

For decades, the narrative surrounding China was one of overwhelming scale: a powerhouse fueled by its vast population. To manage that engine, a strict system of control was implemented, culminating in the famous (and often brutal) One-Child Policy (1980-2015). A key symbolic pillar of that control? Making family planning accessible by exempting contraceptives like condoms, IUDs, and birth control pills from value-added tax (VAT) starting in 1993.

The Boston Breakthrough: What Your Earwax Reveals About Your Brain's Future

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The Ear's Whisper: Listening Before the Tremors Begin

A Boston Winter’s Discovery

It was a bitterly cold January morning at a research facility in Boston when Dr. Eleanor Vance made a quiet breakthrough that would change early Parkinson’s detection forever. While studying skin biomarkers, her team noticed something curious: certain volatile compounds in earwax and skin oils carried a distinct chemical signature in patients who would later develop Parkinson’s disease.

From Water Abundance to Blue Gold: Redefining National Security in the Philippines

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The Coming Thirst: A Philippine Reality Check on Global 'Day Zero' Droughts

For generations of Filipinos, the narrative of water has been one of abundance—of typhoon-filled rainy seasons, overflowing dams, and a landscape rich with rivers and springs

. Yet, a stark new global warning should make us pause: extreme "Day Zero" water shortages, where taps run completely dry, could threaten vulnerable regions across the globe within just 15 years.

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