The oceans, which had been everyone's shared property for centuries, were now being carved up without any coherent pattern. Ironically, the same oil and gas that had been removed from the oceans of the world was now polluting it. Tanker ships carrying cargoes of petroleum and oil occasionally...
The United Arab Emirates is hosting COP28 on behalf of Asia, as the COP presidency rotates each year, with the five different UN regions taking it in turn to appoint a country to host on their behalf. Why is COP28 in Dubai, and why is it controversial? The UAE's COP presidency has ...
The article’s basic objective is to analyse how corporate rule-making and implementation bodies (RMIBs) through which policymakers can choose to initiate new rulesFootnote12—legislatures and public regulatory agencies, stock exchanges, and private/professional bodies with a degree of self-regulatory ...
Plastic straws are by no means the biggest source(来源)of plastic pollution, but they’ve recently come under fire because most people don’t need them to drink with and, because of their small size and weight, they cannot be recycled. Every straw that’s part of Von Wong’s artwork ...
听力原文： Not many couples stay married for 50 years．Even fewer do so for 75 years．It's almost impossible for a couple to be married for 85 years．But that's exactly what Henry and Maggie Thurston did. Hen...
“Yao Ming has brought the NBA closer to the Chinese,” said NBA spokeswoman Cheong Sau Ching, who is based in Hong Kong. “That makes the dream seem achievable for other people in China.” The 22-year-old Yao is not the country’s first player in the NBA; Wang Zhizhi broke down ...
Sometimes, the only way to change a big orange beast is to trick him. Though I don’t really believe that all similarly hued and equally terrible creatures (I’m talking about the biggest, orange bully-elect of them all, here) could be so easily lured with good books and friendship, it...
38%.Thisisprobablybecauseshoppersslowdownandhavemoreopportunitytospotitemstheyliketobuy.Yet,slowmusicisn'talwaysanswer.Dr.Millimanfound,forexample,thatinrestaurantsslowmusicmeantcustomerstooklongertoeattheirmeals,whichreducedoverallsales.Sorestaurantsownersmightbewelladvisedtoplayup-tempomusictokeepthecustomersmoving...
Toyota’s biggest market is in the United States. C. Toyota will be closed soon. D. Toyota’s dealership in the US will all be closed. 4. The last sentence of this passage indicates A. Analyst Koji Endo is fully confident about Toyota ...
One of the biggest spenders in the race is Retire Career Politicians, an outside group backing Osborn that has received funding, in part, from the liberal dark money Sixteen Thirty Fund. Earlier in the campaign, Osborn vowed that he wouldn’t take endorsements from any political parties,...