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The author discusses whether Coco Chanel’s self-confidence can be an example for ambitious young women in business today, and whether Chanel was indeed a Nazi collaborator.

Many young women lack not only self-confidence but self-esteem.

Gaining financial independence through your own efforts, as Chanel did, helps achieve both – and this in turn helps one in life itself.

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Chanel could serve as a role model in this way.

She was a true originator, with the ability to spot a trend before it had risen above the horizon – in her case the need for clothes far simpler and less cluttered than before.

She also had the drive, energy and determination to carry her ideas through.

Certainly, she was anti-Semitic, as indeed was most of France then.

As to collaboration, Chanel was what was called a “collaborateur horizontale” – that is, she had a German lover.

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Regarded as one of the greatest women’s tennis players of all time, Billie Jean King earned a six-time world No. 1 ranking and 39 Grand Slam titles.

Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat and go to the back of a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, ignited one of the largest social resistance movements in history.

The Women’s March held on January 21, 2017, broke records and ignited a modern-day protest movement.

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly nonstop and solo across the Atlantic.

Several years later in 1937, she disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean while attempting to circumnavigate the globe.

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Icelandic politician Vigdís Finnbogadóttir was the first woman to be directly elected president.

Her 16-year presidency was also the longest of any elected female head of state.

Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmental activist, was the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to travel into space, orbiting Earth 48 times in almost 3 days.

Junko Tabei was the first woman to summit Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak.

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Hula dancing was brought to the islands by the Polynesians and was used to pass down stories and culture before the time of written word.

Today, it is used to connect with the islands and share the culture of Hawaii with others.

Capoeira is a mix of martial arts and dance.

It’s believed that this athletic acrobatic dance inspired modern breakdancing.

With its signature foot stamping and hand clapping, flamenco is synonymous with Spain.

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Flamenco is a passionate, expressive dance that oozes with emotion.

What was initially a peasant folk dance in Vienna became the first form of the waltz, and it eventually evolved into a formal high society dance throughout Europe.

Watching the mesmerizing whirling dervish ceremonies is an iconic part of Turkish culture.

Bhangra is high-energy dance that started as a folk celebration to rejoice in the harvest season in Punjab, India.

Kabuki incorporates theatrics and mime with spectacular costumes and staging.

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Each culture has a beer all its own.

But in recent years, smaller, more local craft breweries have been on the rise.

From well-established breweries in South Africa and California to the burgeoning markets in Southeast Asia, craft beer is worth traveling for.

The Triple India Pale Ale is so popular that people camp out on the streets to enjoy a glass.

Beer lovers can try their year-round classics like Mermaid Pilsner or their summer favorite, Cotton Candy Kölsch.

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The British have long had a loving relationship with beer,

but Beavertown is putting a new spin on the classics.

This brewery will appeal to the adventurous and fun at heart.

Located in a converted grain storage facility dating from the 1930s, Dancing Camel is Israel’s oldest microbrewery.

Its beer features locally sourced ingredients and traditional recipes.

As one of the first craft breweries in Hong Kong, Young Master Ales has been a hot spot since 2013.

In the heart of the city, Young Henrys is all about the community, including reducing its environmental impact.

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Julie and Scott Brusaw are entrepreneurs in Idaho who have launched a company called Solar Roadways.

They are working to develop new materials for streets and roads.

The materials can not only turn sunlight into electricity but also generate their own light and produce heat to melt ice and snow.

Our goal is to cover all paved surfaces with solar panels that you can drive on.

We’ve got two pieces of half-inch-thick tempered glass.

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The circuit boards have the LEDs and solar cells, the heating elements and the microprocessor.

Solar cells put off DC energy, so if you installed the panels in your driveway or a parking lot, you would need to take that DC energy and convert it into AC energy.

We have a micro-inverter that takes that DC and turns it into 240 volts of AC.

It goes right into a “load center,” that’s where your fuse box is, so it’s feeding your house.

If it’s a parking lot, it’s feeding your business.

If it’s a road, it can feed anything that’s on the power line.

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The best way to fight the rising far right is to go green.

Over the last decade, the radical right has come to power in the United States, Brazil, India, Poland, Hungary, and elsewhere.

It has joined forces with autocrats in Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Thailand to create a new illiberal ecosystem.

Together, they are challenging the rule of law, democratic

governance, and the rights of women and minorities.

The radical right has appealed to all those who feel threatened by the more rapid movement of capital and people across borders.

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Yet despite its political successes, the radical right has an Achilles’ heel.

It has no credible response to the most urgent threat facing the planet: the current climate crisis.

According to the most recent UN report, the world has utterly failed to restrain carbon emissions despite dire warnings from the scientific community.

The two biggest offenders, the United States and China,

actually increased their carbon emissions last year.

The radical right doesn’t have a plan to reduce carbon emissions.

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What is the secret to physical and mental well-being?

Since the beginning of time, people have searched for the answer.

Every country has its own traditions and take on self-care.

In Finland, it involves steamy saunas and icy dips.

In Tibet, sound vibrations are believed to heal and harmonize the body.

This new year, try a new wellness rituals from around the globe.

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Hammam, or traditional Moroccan bath houses, aren’t for the shy, as they are typically experienced in the nude and separated by gender.

These public baths are places to socialize, relax and get squeaky clean.

Volunteering to be whacked with a bunch of oak leaves might not sound relaxing, but it’s a traditional type of massage in Russian banyas, or bath houses.

The beating of water-dipped branches takes place in a sauna, and it is believed to boost circulation and prevent premature skin aging.

Traditional yoga poses involving headstands or backbends might be intimidating to some, but Laughter Yoga is something everyone can do.

Choose Your Own High-Stakes Adventure (Level B2)

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Why do some people seek death-defying adventures like freefalling off a cliff, diving with crocodiles or even volunteering to be kidnapped?

It seems the predilection for thrill-seeking and risk-taking is all part of our DNA.

High sensation seekers tend to seek out stressful jobs such as firefighting and working in emergency rooms.

They also seek out extreme and risky experiences such as skydiving and bungee jumping.

The good news for these high-sensation seekers is that when they want to take a vacation, there are travel companies catering to their preferences.

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Be a castaway for 10 days on an uninhabited island in French Polynesia, Tonga or Panama with a tribe of strangers from around the world.

Forget merely crossing the most dangerous sea in the world, try sailing it.

Forget the crowded lines at Everest and instead summit Mount Elbrus in the Russian Caucasus Mountains.

Swiss aviation enthusiasts at MiGFlug offer flight experiences in locations around the world.

For upwards of $20,000 per person, Big Animals Global Expeditions takes you diving in Botswana with African crocodiles, the second largest living reptile in the world.

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In a totally unanticipated public statement, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex mutinied against the monarchical institution.

Horrified traditionalists blame the uppity, black American wife.

When Harry wed Meghan in 2018, the sun shone, birds sang, crowds cheerfully waved their wee Union flags.

Idealistic white people and minorities whipped up fantasies about a post-racial and post-colonial nirvana.

We realists were wary of the mass buoyancy and delusions.

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The couple met in July 2016, just a month after the June Brexit referendum, which split the nation irrevocably.

Brexiters declared a culture war on diversity, equality and liberal values.

Meghan, black, modern, feminist, was a loadstone for seething xenophobes, macho men and some hateful women too.

During the buildup to the wedding, prejudiced journalists opined that she was more mistress than wife material.

This woman turned Harry from a wild, partying young man to a responsible and sensitive adult who talks about his mental health and his beloved mum.

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The process of writing or crafting the story or novel or film is the same process as how you craft the game, how you build game from day to day.

The world does not have stories like we’re creating, sports fantasy stories.

I knew I wanted to win five, six, seven championships – that was my goal.

You can’t control that passion; you need to keep those flames burning.

Everything has purpose, and everything must be to the best of your ability.

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I’m not criticizing the person, I’m criticizing the act.

So remove yourself from that, remove the ego from this process, just focus on the act.

The goal is to help us all become better.

Oprah told me, specifically, that she’s made a lot of the same mistakes that I’ve made when she first started her studio.

You’ve got to go, you’ve got to move forward.

Time has no mercy. I wish I had a TiVo button to just pause it for a second.

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Vaping may carry the same risk as cigarette smoke when it comes to making the lungs more susceptible to infections.

To reach their conclusion, researchers grew bacteria in a lab, and exposed them to e-cigarette vapor and cigarette smoke.

When the team treated the bacteria with cigarette smoke and e-cigarette vapor, they became more virulent, or potentially harmful, in a way that could lead to diseases such as COPD and asthma, Gilpin explained.

She said she didn’t expect to find the changes in bacteria exposed to e-cigarette vapor to be the same, and sometimes greater, than those seen with cigarette smoke.

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It’s possible that the effects we observed with vape could be potentially greater in real life.

Gilpin added there are thousands of different e-cigarette flavors on the market, some of which are toxic.

Investigating these in the future and with more patient samples is “really important,” she said.

She suggested people trying to quit smoking using alternative methods.

“Vaping is often quoted as being less harmful than smoking,” Gilpin stressed.

But less harmful isn’t the same as safe, and results from our study suggest that exposing lung bacteria to vape may carry the same risk as smoking.

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Over the past couple of decades, companies have been embracing the idea that they need to do more than just make a profit for shareholders.

Do-good efforts slowly evolved from passive and limited corporate philanthropy programs to broader and more active CSR programs.

In August, 181 CEOs of the country’s largest corporations signed a Business Roundtable statement committing to managing their companies not just for shareholders, but also for customers, employees, suppliers, and communities.

The idea behind all of these efforts is the well-worn slogan “doing well by doing good.”

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It means that being a positive force in the community will enhance a company’s reputation, which in theory will pay off in more sales, lower costs and over the long term, more money for shareholders.

Stephen Hahn-Griffiths says his organization’s research proves that reputation is a leading indicator of stock market capitalization, or the total value of a company’s shares.

“Beer companies used to talk about fun and sports. Now they talk about their programs to save water in the world.”

Still, there are many who adhere to the late economist Milton Friedman’s argument that the sole purpose of the corporation is to make more money for shareholders.

Those who oppose CSR programs argue that trying to do two things at once, like making a profit and serving society, will destroy the effectiveness of companies.

“No public company in the world would last a week if the only people they cared about were shareholders.”

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Looking back over many decades, recent viral outbreaks fit a pattern that is now well-recognized.

It goes like this: a virus that lives in animals makes the jump to humans.

People start getting sick and passing the infection around.

Nobody pays attention for days, weeks or even months if the majority of cases are mild and go unnoticed.

Sometimes the public is unaware of a potential new threat because authorities are keeping quiet to avoid causing panic or retribution.

Then, suddenly, an outbreak is detected, the alarm sounds, the public takes notice and the world is enveloped in a global crisis.

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The current crisis is caused by a coronavirus – a class of pathogens that includes the common cold, which means it’s a new version of an old foe.

This particular virus, called 2019-nCoV, appears to spread from person to person fairly rapidly and is already having serious consequences for public health.

While many of the confirmed cases are reportedly mild, this novel coronavirus is causing death and severe illness, especially for vulnerable groups like the elderly and those who are immunocompromised.

And it is causing disruptions in travel, trade, economic activity and productivity.

We don’t yet know much about the virus and the contours of the outbreak it is causing – nor what it could become if it mutates, which is a natural feature of coronaviruses.

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