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...kids back, the American Embassy in London is promoting the country's diversity and popular culture as reasons to understand it better. Encouraging people to study the country "furthers our mission to explain America to the world," says Liza Davis, the Embassy's cultural attaché. The embassy has also given Richard Ellis, a professor at the University of Birmingham, a generous grant to produce promotional CDs and a website that asks: "Why Study America?" The site features interviews with people enrolled in American-studies courses (one student says he's developed a "toolbox" to analyze cultural phenomena such...
...critic of the Bush Administration, which he has accused of everything from mishandling foreign policy to promoting a fiscal strategy that caused the economic crisis gripping the country. But the economist - whom the Nobel committee recognized for his "analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity," which helps explain why certain countries excel in international trade - has long been considered one of the brightest lights of the dismal science. He will receive $1.4 million for the award, which will be given in Stockholm...
...rare professional economist who knows how to explain the essence of policy issues to a non-professional audiences." - Peter Passell, in the New York Times Book Review...
...paper since the mid-nineteenth century.If you’ve ever read a book and enjoyed it, most of what Wood writes will echo with familiarity. The “truth,” the “lifeness” that he seeks to explain, is a driving force not only for writers, but for readers, too. In his short book, Wood creates his own separate space—a few hundred pages in which the reader can explore, along with Wood, what makes fiction matter...
...It’s an odd contention that 250,000 chickens would by choice flock into one barn and cram themselves into narrow wire cages. And it doesn’t explain why egg producers have to ‘de-beak’ battery caged chickens–searing off their beaks to stop the stressed birds from pecking each other to death. Both the California Veterinary Medical Association and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals endorsed Prop Two, citing the suffering caged animals endure when denied their basic instinct to move...