Talk to EU later: Georgia’s fiery protests
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The Economist
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🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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The country has been turning increasingly away from Europe and towards Russia—but a halt to EU-accession talks has sparked enormous demonstrations. Researchers know unequivocally that ultra-processed foods are bad for you; we look into the persistent question of why (10.26). And fatherhood in East Asia is undergoing a quiet revolution as gender roles shift (18.22).
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| 1:25.7 | Food that is heavily processed tends to be cheap, long-lasting and often delicious. |
| 1:31.1 | But there's a growing body of evidence to suggest that it's terrible for our health. |
| 1:35.7 | Our correspondent digs through the sweetwrappers for some hard science. |
| 1:41.4 | And there's a quiet revolution going on in East Asia. |
| 1:45.0 | Rigid gender rules of decades past are fading, |
| 1:48.0 | and fathers are doing a lot more fathering. |
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