Whether you’ve already taken the TOEFL (congratulations!) or are still preparing for it, you’re probably asking, “Is my TOEFL score any good?” The TOEFL is unique in that it doesn’t have a universal “passing” score. Instead, what counts as a “good” score depends on the requir...
Names like Lump Town and El Boffo put us in the right frame of mind. Sometimes, though, he goes a little overboard, hitting us over the head as if the reader isn’t going to get it. For instance, Bunyan and Henry are sitting in an all-Black tavern, with lookouts watching for ...
(Side note: I didn’t recognize any of the names of the authors included here.) As editor Russell Smith notes in the introduction: Writing sex scenes is notoriously difficult: one walks a tightrope between the crude and the laughable (especially in English, a Germanic language that lends ...
Until I spotted one of the toxic names from my blacklist. Deflated, I immediately replied to the email letting them know that I could not participate. I told them why too. That was that. It felt quite good for a minute. My total concurrence: I won’t ruin the punchline but, again,...
And he’s “collecting names of potential new members to put on a committee that recommends which vaccines Americans should get and when, according to people familiar with the matter,” The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. As of Tuesday, 159 measles cases had been confirmed in Texas. ...
His 1948 book The Road to Survival laid the blueprint for the familiar brand of apocalyptic environmentalism that was later espoused by Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb and the Club of Rome’s The Limits to Growth (Limits to Growth: The 30-year Update is a relevant sequel to that work...
So, I wind things up. “This is how I see it” “3rd party suppliers and vendors want to see these projects last for as long as possible” “The more licences, consulting days and bodies they can bill for, the better for them” “The longer they take our money, and the more of ...
I had a bit of another sort of moving experience getting back fromMontrealwhere we bid bon voyage to the eldest who is now the blog’s Euro-correspondence for the winter. Maybe I’m just getting old but I don’t recall speed racers on the highway coming up from behind as I am passin...
It was amazing to see such a bird of prey up close. We get the buzzards overhead, but they rarely land near the garden. We’ve also made friends with the local horses, see below. Bob, Tanny and Hera are our names for them and they seem to be warming to us. They’ve started to...
The greens are technicolor now, covering ground and overflowing branch and filling vase. Every shade and new ones without names greet my tired, morning eyes and I try to blink away the ordinary. All the impossible, tiny Spring buds gave way to a green life that is thicker than winter’s ...