The World Trade Center, at 110 floors, became the world's tallest buildings of their time and had rentable space equivalent to 130 professional football fields. This is the story of the engineering that saved thousands of lives 28 years later on September 11, 2001.
This is the weekly ranking of contemporary music as generated by one of the most important radio stations in South America.
This is the weekly ranking of contemporary music as generated by one of the most important radio stations in South America.
The story of a multiple Emmy Award-winning TV Channel in New York with a team of 400 producers that cleverly reinvented itself overnight to continue its broadcasts.
After being initiated into trafficking and sexual exploitation before her 9th birthday, she was sold to international mafias. After 37 years, she manages to escape from it and becomes an activist defending women victims like she was: her story, the book, and the documentary.
Child labor has been with us for centuries. However, the abuses of industrialization drew a line between acceptable work and harmful exploitation for minors. Despite this 85-year-old protection, some US states are now severely weakening those protections by lowering the legal working age.
This is the weekly ranking of contemporary music as generated by one of the most important radio stations in South America.
Child labor has been part of communal and familial life. But the abuses of industrialization drew a line between acceptable work and harmful exploitation for minors. Despite this 85-year-old protection, some US states are now lowering the legal working age. Why?
Shipbreaking has become a major environmental and occupational health problem in the world. It is among the most dangerous occupations; the levels of deaths and injuries are unacceptable. This industry operates mainly outside the law.
This is the weekly ranking of contemporary music as generated by one of the most important radio stations in South America.
This is the weekly ranking of contemporary music as generated by one of the most important radio stations in South America.
Unveiling an Invisible Giant ENG
Imagine an industry that earns more than 24 billion dollars a year from exports, surpassing the US soybean sales to the world in 2021 or the total export of coffee of the top 10 countries in the same period. The blood plasma extraction industry sources its raw material from about 20 million people here in the US. To uncover the operations of this hidden industry, we have with us a journalist who recently wrote the book Blood Money. It is a captivating story.
Today we will focus on the pieces of the cultural heritage looted in Latin America, which are found in museums, private collections, and auction houses in Europe and the United States whose holders refuse to return them to the countries of origin.
This is the weekly ranking of contemporary music as generated by one of the most important radio stations in South America.
Many of the most fertile lands use huge machines to enhance crop output. These machines can do the job of several others with just one person. But they are so heavy that they harm the soil beyond recovery.
Technology has made it possible for satellites in the shape of small cubes measuring 10 cm (about 4”) per side and weighing 1 Kg or 2.2 lbs to orbit the Earth and other planets. They perform many of the duties of their conventional satellites at less than 2% of the cost. Private enterprises and universities worldwide are now players in space exploration. This is the story.
Taiwan remains the most contentious issue in US-China relations. Taiwan is prominently identified as a "core" national interest of China. Is it a vital issue to the US's security? Why is it identified as the likely location for a military confrontation between the two superpowers?
Many countries, such as China, Russia, Iran, Brazil, and others, want to use a different currency than the Dollar for trade and reserves. How likely is this to happen? What would it mean for the world?
Many countries, such as China, Russia, Iran, Brazil, and others, want to use a different currency than the Dollar for trade and reserves. How likely is this to happen? What would be the consequences for the world economy?
This is the weekly ranking of contemporary music as generated by one of the most important radio stations in South America.Content:Top 5 songs2 new suggestionsCount down of the top best songs of the last week.
232 years ago, the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution was proposed, granting citizens the right to bear arms. Today, there are an estimated 120 firearms for every 100 US citizens of all ages and over 300 armed militias in operation. An expert on the history of the Second Amendment helps us understand its origins and evolution