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Stories of the War in Ukraine: Volodymyr

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Over the past week, The Institute has made contact with some of the 400 members of the IEEE Ukraine Section to help them share their experiences during the war. This personal account was written by Volodymyr Pyliavskyi , a senior researcher at the Odessa National Telecommunications Academy in Odessa, Ukraine.

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The Portrait Artist

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Perry wrote her first article for Spectrum in 1980. Perry prefers to meet in person in order to develop a human connection. That rapport lets her subjects open up, giving readers a glimpse of their personalities, motivations, and attitudes. There’s an art to writing a good profile, and it all starts with the interview.

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A Russian Perspective on the War in Ukraine

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Are you confident that you are getting sufficient information about the situation in Ukraine to be well informed about it? Roman Gorbunov: I don’t feel I’m informed about the situation in Ukraine. Even those who are in Ukraine now don’t know what is really happening in their country, but only the situation next to them.

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Can Autonomous Weapons Be Compatible With International Humanitarian Law?

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This article is part of our Autonomous Weapons Challenges series. The fundamentals of IHL were developed before the widespread use of personal computers, satellites, the Internet, and social media, and before private data became a commodity that could be accessed remotely and often without a person’s knowledge or consent.

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Stories of the War in Ukraine: Hanna

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Over the past week, The Institute has made contact with some of the 400 members of the IEEE Ukraine Section to help them share their experiences during the war. I want to tell you about the situation in Ukraine that I have seen with my own eyes. So much to do: lessons, conference, articles, teaching materials for lectures.

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Whatever Happened to the Population Bomb?

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percent), while the low-growth forecast sees declines of 26 percent in Ukraine, 16 percent in Italy, 15 percent in Russia, 13 percent in Spain, and nearly 9 percent in China. This article appears in the October 2021 print issue as "What Goes Up.". The latest U.N. You can see what is left behind without leaving your room by taking.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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Welcome to the 7th Annual Top 10 EV Countries list — my own very personal version of March Madness! However, I won’t ignore that its CEO, among the world’s richest persons, loudly undermined sensible pandemic policies in his home state, thus helping kill more of his fellow Americans and his own workers.

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