Word: culturese
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Small, economically developed countries aren't the only ones that have created science-friendly cultures: 54% of the staff at the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an astonishing 81% of the scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences are people who have returned from abroad. Deng Hongkui's story is...
And not just ideas but also the people who give life to them. America is uniquely socially mobile, ethnically mixed and racially tolerant. America is, in Ben Wattenberg's phrase, the first universal nation, indeed the only universal nation. Every street corner in New York City is a rainbow of...
Corporate cultures are notoriously change resistant, and this is not just any corporation. The company ethos is steeped in the history of the Ford family. Henry was a compulsive innovator, although not a particularly good manager. Bill inherited the independent mind and high expectations of his great-grandfather. As a...
The 112 undergraduates enrolled in a Foreign Cultures class were given the option of dropping part of their final exam after complaints that teaching fellows (TFs) had given some students information about the test beforehand.
Some students in Foreign Cultures 76, “Nazi Cinema: Fantasy Production in the Third Reich” were told which readings they should study for Part I of the exam, a short-answer section worth one-third of the exam grade.