[NEWS] Some Wednesday links

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• The Associated Press notes the hostility in many American communities to Muslim cemeteries.


• Bloomberg explores the revival of watchmaking in East Germany's Saxony, and touches on the new two-day public work week in Venezuela.


• Bloomberg View notes Japan's rising levels of poverty, looks at the politicization of the Brazilian education system, and examines potential consequences of Pakistan-China nuclear collaboration.


• The CBC reports on the difficulties of the Canada-European Union trade pact, reports on the conviction of an Alberta couple for not taking their meningitis-afflicted child to medical attention until it was too late, and notes that an American-Spanish gay couple was able to retrieve their child from a Thai surrogate mother.


• MacLean's examines how Karla Homolka ending up shifting towards French Canada.


• The National Post's Michael den Tandt is critical of the idea of a new Bombardier bailout.


• Universe Today notes a paper arguing that, with only one example of life, we can say little with assuredness about extraterrestrial life's frequency.


• Vice's Noisey notes how Prince and Kate Bush ended up collaborating on "Why Should I Love You?".


• The Washington Post reports on a study suggesting that root crops like the potato were less suited to supporting complex civilizations than grains.