4 Golden memories美好的回忆 1 I can still vaguely recall the men who built the walls, and raised the roof, even though it was many families ago. The master from the manor house over the way needed a lodge for his groundsman, and found a clearing in the huge orchard which ran up...
This is the way to think about writing decades using numbers: they are both abbreviations and plurals. A shorter way of saying “My mother was born in the 1940s” is “My mother was born in the ’40s.” The apostrophe (not an opening single quotation mark) indicates where the two cent...
This was a conventional funeral in the 1960s, but this send-off of the dead has undergone adjustments over the decades. Perhaps the most significant change is the rising popularity of cremation, says Gary Laderman, chair of Emory University's department of religion and author of two books on...
M: Too many people spend their lives working on jobs they hate because they're afraid. So I counsel people to take risks. Retirement doesn't have to be permanent, and if people need to, they can go back to work. W: But it's not always easy to get back into the workforce after ...
Tens of thousands of people are flocking to a provincial southern temple, seeking hope in tough times.
"The cliffs are vulnerable to this, undercutting from the wave action," saidMerrifieldof the Scripps Center. TheScripps Institution of Oceanographyat UC San Diego is a global leader in climate science. They've been measuring rising sea levels for decades. ...
Today, the Garden District is the fancy part of town, where some of the city’s most opulent mansions were built in past centuries. In the 21st century, you can still spot many of those historic residences, as well as more contemporary signposts of wealth, such as yoga studios and locavor...
Large numbers of gamebirds (pheasants Phasianus colchicus, red-legged partridges Alectoris rufa and mallard Anus platyrhynchos) are released annually in the UK to support recreational shooting. It is important to know how many of these birds are being released because their release and management has...
Mariano Rivera trotted out to "Enter Sandman" and Chipper Jones stepped up to the plate with "Crazy Train." It was the introduction of Nancy Faust decades earlier that paved the way.Ron Vesely Photography IF THERE WASa defining moment in Nancy's path to Comiskey, it almost certainly came...
She thought she’d have many years to introduce her family back in Xinjiang to her children. But then things began to change at home. “First, I saw the document with my older sister’s name on it. It was heartbreaking.”Rozinsa Mamattohti ...