My particular Chinese/English mix is unremarkable in this city, where people are Thai/Burmese/Indian or Swedish/Japanese/Scottish. I was brought up between a mere two countries – what am I, pretending? TCKS RSV
Keep some to attract bees, not leaving cars sitting for long periods of time, gas prices, flying ants, Japanese knotweed, the dangers of raccoon poo to your health, smoke trees, hot tamales. I may know some things about gardening, but all the same, fact check me. Listen to the ...
Yet the anachronistic “gentlemen’s agreement” that has kept an American at the head of the World Bank and a European leading the IMF has proved stubbornly resilient. In 2007, Dominique Strauss-Kahn became IMF managing director, succeeded by another French citizen, Christine Lagarde, in 2011....
While it has become a predictive place to confess to strangers and a conscious ritual seeking reward, it’s also true when I approach this weekly blank space I seek an evolution of self. Over the span of all these years, cache culture has become a personal almanac filled with symbols and...
Squirrels: The Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis) consumes fungi such asAmanita muscariaand helps disperse spores (Suetsugu and Gomi2021). North American squirrel species, including the northern flying squirrel, Douglas’ squirrel, and Townsend’s squirrel, are particularly effective dispersers of truffle...
25) For example, a Japanese firm may have signed a contract, but they may not feel bound by every detail of it, particularly if circumstances later change. Such differences in value that different working cultures place on the written word tend to cause many problems when it comes to ...
Learning is like rowing upstream: not lo advance is to drop back.lt is such a delight to have friends coming from afar. 玉不琢,不成器。人不学,不知义。 As a jade without chiseling will not become a useful object, a man without learning will not know the Way. 欲穷千里目,更上一-层楼...
Every time I go in the busy streets,always see some throw on the ground of dazzling things:the packing bag of brightly colored,the crush cigarette end,didnt chew clean apple and roll into a mass of waste paper.If everyone so dont speak hygiene,our beautiful home will become what look ...
One privacy concern in the case of Wikipedia is the right of a private citizen to remain private: to remain a “private citizen” rather than a “public figure” in the eyes of the law.[69] It is a battle between the right to be anonymous in cyberspace and the right to be anonym...
Kathy and her husband told us the fascinating story of their becoming foster parents to a baby sparrow. She said it was quite something to become so surprisingly intimate with a member of another species. Over the span of four weeks the sparrow, which they named Nestle, bonded with them. ...