Of course, in 2020, COVID-19 deaths became significant. In this year in the US, the mortality rate for COVID-19 (as the underlying or contributing cause of death) was per , corresponding to nines of safety, which was less safe than all other causes of death except for heart disease ...
In the dense rain forest of Guyana, Jim Jones built a compound where he and his followers were meant to live in utopian harmony: the Peoples Temple. There were several huts for sleeping, teaching, working and Jones’ own sermons. On November 18, 1978, Jones led 909 of those cult members...
He was an active participant in the drafting of the “Socialist Guyana Plan” to transform Venezuela’s basic industries into less energy-intensive, worker-controlled enterprises directed towards meeting domestic needs rather than export. “It was a great honor to have been part of the ILPS’...
The Commonwealth of Nations as we know it was created in the 1920s. From the 1860s onwards British dominions beyond the seas attained self-governance. The dominions became completely independent in the 1920s when they started to direct their own foreign policy. However, the Commonwealth countries...
Your life is organized like an orbit. I know. 了解了这点,就知道为何四年于相隔千里的我们,似乎只是弹指一挥间而已。 我其实了解小女儿的心理,是希望多一点surprise多一点romantic多一点傻里吧唧的指天划地的。可惜我这方面的才能似乎多用在0,1组成的无机世界里了,于是只能委屈她了。大多数的时间,她就一...
(population 4 million) has about ten thousand unnecessary early childhood deaths and 1400 maternal deaths per year. The fact that Ebola in Liberia is “a crisis situation” but this hecatomb is “not a crisis” is part of the problem. A reallocation of health care resources towards the ...
We focus on identifying different independent variables that could potentially explain the diffusion of plastic bag policies, as there is not enough research on the diffusion of plastic bag policies to date in order to systematically test hypotheses derived from literature. We analyze the relevance of...
“I’m originally from Guyana and moved to Halifax back in 1997 where I caught a lot of attention in the streets. About a year after I’d arrived, a lady came up to me and told me I looked like Naomi Campbell, but at this time I did not know who the...