Disney's China Experiment Hasn't Gone as Expected (Newser Deep Dive)

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June 15, 2024     Disney's China Experiment Hasn't Gone as Expected When Disney opened Shangahi Disneyland in 2016, it had visions of becoming a cultural juggernaut in China on par with its success in the US. Things haven't gone exactly as planned. Keep reading   'Starbucks of Bowling' Upends Sport's Old-School Culture The Lever estimates that 70 million Americans bowled at least once last year, making the humble pastime the largest participation sport in the nation. And it's a safe bet that many of those people did so in an alley owned by the fast-growing Bowlero chain. Keep reading   From our sponsors Incredible $89 Portable AC Is Taking America by Storm Don't Waste Your Time With Other AC Units. Polar Cooling AC Could Be The Best Gadget Of Summer 2024 READ MORE   We May Have Gone Too Far in Demonizing Opioids The stigma in America against opioid use is an understandable one, writes Ann Neumann in the Baffler. After all, the devastating toll of addiction over the last two decades by drugs such as OxyContin has been well chronicled. Keep reading   Investigation: US Military Ran Major Anti-Vax Campaign At one point during the COVID pandemic, then-Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte was so exasperated about how few citizens were getting vaccinations that he made an unusual threat. "You choose, vaccine or I will have you jailed," he told the nation in a televised address in June 2021. Keep reading   A Black Market Has Emerged for DIY Poop Transplants Fecal microbiota transplants involve transferring healthy bacteria from a donor's gut microbiome to another person's colon—a poop transplant—and are as experimental as it gets. The FDA has greenlit just one type of FMT treatment in recent years, to treat a bacterial infection known as C. diff. Keep reading     From the Archives Ethel Rosenberg's Sons Want Truth About Mom Known When his mother called to tell him she had been arrested and couldn't come home, as had happened to his father the month prior, Michael Meeropol screamed into the phone. He was just 7. The boy's last name at the time—the summer of 1950—was Rosenberg. Keep reading   From Our Sponsors Manage your subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe from Newser emails  |  Privacy Policy We'd love to hear from you. Send us a note at feedback@newser.com. Read our stories on MSN. Newser, LLC  |  1395 Brickell Avenue  |  Suite 800  |  Miami, Florida  |  33131 © 2024 Newser, LLC. All rights reserved