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Choosing the right school medium—English or vernacular (local language)—is a major decision for parents. Both have unique benefits and drawbacks. For centuries, education relied on local, or ...

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Thirty years ago, EPCOT’s Spaceship Earth, a geodesic dome in which people sped through the history of telecommunication, peddled the future miracle of video chat, sponsored by AT&T. To me at the time ...

THE SOFT SMELL of paper wafts down from towering shelves and crisp paper crackles as it turns under curious hands. Quiet voices murmur through the hushed halls of the library, a sense of peaceful ...