When I was a child I was often told what not to eat. “You don’t want to get fat” was on constant repeat throughout my childhood. It really messed up my relationship with food—something that took me years to overcome. Because of this, I’m careful not to connect what my kids w...
W: Sure. My name's Shirly Hunter. I was born in Nova Scotia, Canada. I've been living here in Montreal for about nine months. I moved from Tokyo. I was teaching English and also designing jewelry in Tokyo. M...
1What are we celebrating today?2I asked the above question at the beginning of every one of my classes, whether I was teaching kids or adults. Sometimes I asked it a little differently, as in, "Who has good news?" or "Who has something ...
news today's newspapers 11 and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters.Newspapers influence readers' economic choices 12 advertising.Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very 13 .Newspapers are sold at a price that 14 even a small fraction of the cost of...
"The Fed was behind the curve when raising interest rates to corral inflation and the lesson appears to have been learned," Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate, said by email. "By making a larger half-point interest rate cut right from the get-go, the Fed is taking out som...
Vol. 259 – The Fed Will Get What it WantsA new type of bond-buying = printing money
W: What happened today? You were looking extremely good at the start. M: I blew it! The car was a bit out of control. W: Some people might have given up at that point. M: I was determined to do it, to finish the round. W: So, what now? M: Tomorrow’s going to be tough...
22.B) It was the poorest when there was background speech. 23.A) It depends on the overlap in processing different kinds of information. 24.A) Keep everything as quiet as possible. 25.B) Shy quiet people were most adversely imp...
In 1872, Koch took up the post of district physician in what is today Wolsztyn, Poland. His patients, many of them farmers, were dying from anthrax, an illness that destroyed their cows.Koch set out to solve the anthrax riddle. First, Koch visited anthrax-stricken farms to observe the co...
As was overwhelmingly expected, theFederal Reserve'srate-setting committee announced this afternoon that it's lowering thefederal funds rateby another 0.25 percentage points, bringing the target range down to 4.50%–4.75%.1It's the second consecutive meeting in which the central bank has cut i...