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by News Decoder | 2 Aug 2019 | Eyewitness
This is the fourth in a series of profiles of News-Decoder correspondents. By Amari Leigh Betty Wong never expected to become a journalist. As a teenager attending a rigorous, science-oriented high school in New York City, Wong was headed to becoming an engineer...
by News Decoder | 26 Aug 2015 | Asia
Global markets have been in turmoil in recent days, with the prices of company shares and foreign exchange rates fluctuating wildly. Betty Wong, who covered Wall Street markets for years, takes a look at the herd mentality that can jolt markets around the world. By...
by Tendayi Chirawu | 5 Nov 2020 | Human Rights, La Jolla Country Day School, United States, Youth Voices
California student Lucy Jaffee interviewed renowned free-speech expert Floyd Abrams to write a forward-looking article on a landmark court case. Lucy Jaffee Lucy Jaffee was researching a complicated U.S. court case involving students’ right to freedom of speech....
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by News Decoder | 30 Apr 2020 | Health and Wellness
Stock markets over time tend to reward investors with financial gains. But the COVID-19 pandemic has thrust markets into uncharted territory. By Betty Wong Stock markets are typically viewed as an economic oracle, able to foresee the state of a company or the overall...
by Abigael Abuga | 18 Mar 2020 | Discovery, Eyewitness, Health and Wellness
As the coronavirus crisis deepens, we confront a most basic question: Will we survive this? We tapped our correspondents for their thoughts. An emergency hospital during the Spanish flu epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas, circa 1918 (Wikimedia Commons/National Museum of...
