For the past eight decades, we have lived in “the American Century” – a period during which the US has enjoyed unrivalled power – be it political, economic or military - on the global stage. Born on the cusp of this new era, Joseph S. Nye Jr. has spent a lifetime illuminating ...
Living in the American Century 1940-1950; Exploding Into a Brave New World Series: WHAT IT FELT LIKE; 5/5Henry Allen
inJapanandChile.AnditwasinChileshediscoveredshecould getlast-minutecheap dealson shipsgoingto Antarcticafrom theislandsoff TierradelFuego,thesouthernmosttip ofthe SouthAmericanmainland.“IjustdecidedIwantedtogo,”shesays.“IhadnoideaaboutwhatI?d findthereandIwasn?tnervous.Ijustwantedto doit.AndIwantedto...
Health workforce design for the 21st century The Australian health workforce has changed dramatically over the last 4 years, growing in size and changing composition. However, more changes will be nee... Duckett,J Stephen - 《Australian Health Review A Publication of the Australian Hospital Associat...
a century ago, the average lifespan(寿命) for Americans was about 50 years.Today, the typical American lives for around seventy-eight years.According to a German aging study, the maximum lifespan in industrialized countrieshas increased by two years every decade since the mid 19th century. What...
阅读理解 Life in the twentieth century demands preparation. Today, all individuals in a country must have adequate schooling to prepare them for their work as well as for their responsibilities as citizens. With this in mind, national leaders everywhere
learned badly by waves of Celts, Vikings, Normans and others until it became an unrecognisably different tongue. And take comfort in the fact that such changes usually happen too slowly to affect comprehension in a single lifetime.Written language is less volatile than the spoken kind and exert...
Historically, the South was hierarchical in its social structure, giving rise to a caste system based on black salves and indentured servants, with big plantation owners sitting at the top. The Southern slow-paced agricultural life has produced what people there call “the Southern way of life...
Over the weekend, thousands of people began swarming to Xiaohongshu, which is known in China as a platform for travel and lifestyle content.The newcomers, who refer to the app as the Chinese version of Instagram, are relying on translation tools to navigate Xiaohongshu’s mostly Chinese ...
Wakefield and Nestlé struck a deal in the 1940s: her recipe printed on their bags in exchange for a lifetime supply of chocolate. How very “Willy Wonka”, eh?] Here is my unequivocally efficient approach to paying tolls across our many-highway’d nation. When you first get a driver’...