Actress who became the first African American to win an Academy Award for the role of Mammy in "Gone With the Wind." 2015 JUN 10 Juan Felipe Herrera, the son of migrant farm workers—and prize-winning author—becomes America's first Latino poet laureate. In his nomadic childhood, his mo...
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However, the relationship between hard, structural factors such as investment in capital and technologies and soft factors such as talent and skills in determining growth performances is complex. The literature is constellated by a long strand of models that provide alternatives to the neoclassical gro...
and McKinsey’s own Peter Spiller and Ruth Heuss. And we’re going to challenge the notion that environmental sustainability comes with a trade-off. Welcome, everyone.
the crucial question becomes “How rich countries got rich … and why poor countries stay poor”, with a special emphasis on the latter part. A pillar of Reinert’s argument is the need to invest in education and R&D to build a solid domestic skills base that is crucial to secure growth...
It's also been theorized that Hitler and a number of his SS men escaped to thesecret fortress in Antarcticacalled Base 221. The Germans claimed they created the base in 1938 when a Nazi expedition discovered a huge underground cave where they made contact with aliens or unearthed alien technol...
To date, there have been limited systematic attempts to synthesise or evaluate the varied approaches to investigating sleep discrepancy. Three reviews have been conducted in this area. Castelnovo et al. [9] conducted a systematic review of quantitative definitions of paradoxical insomnia, an insomnia ...
[5]. In Norway alone, figures indicate that home-based care is the service that is increasing most rapidly [6]. The majority of older people needing these services are described as valuing their independence and, as such, preferring to remain in a familiar environment [7,8]. Many are ...
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On this occasion Hermann had secured a pass for the next day to go, and see his sick mother who was dying. But it also just happened that the new Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces, Max Von Viebahn was to visit the depot the next day. The decision was easy for Hermann...