Jeddah mind trick: Joe Biden in Saudi Arabia
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Joe Biden lands in Saudi Arabia this morning, having spent two unremarkable days in Israel and the West Bank. As president, he has been unusually disengaged from the Middle East, and will probably return home with little to show for his peregrinations. We survey the state of sex education in Latin American schools, and explain why dinosaurs outcompeted other species.
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| 1:09.0 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your |
| 1:13.0 | world. You may remember giggling nervously through sex education classes at school, and if you don't, |
| 1:20.3 | your teachers sure do. Sex education may be awkward, but it's really important. And across much of |
| 1:27.0 | Latin America, schools don't do it very well. |
| 1:31.3 | And popular imagination has it that the dinosaurs ruled supreme over the earth a couple of |
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