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...lurks still in the city’s crevices” amidst “unbridled appetites and animal passions”—waiting “like the abysmal Charybdis to swallow Athens down.” It’s still eerie to modern ears, for though New York’s skyline may stand mostly intact, 143 stalled building sites loom over the city, and after eight years, the World Trade Center site still looks like Ground Zero. The unemployed—now over a tenth of New York City’s population?...
...funds can now be used to support tenure-track faculty, visiting scholars in the department, and students studying the economy and society of modern Korea...
Maybe the most surprising thing about Modern Family is how many laughs it gets out of the most ordinary of its three couples: Phil (Ty Burrell) and Claire (Julie Bowen), overscheduled and driven by competing parenting impulses. She wants to compensate for her wild childhood. "If Haley never wakes up on a beach in Florida half-naked," she says, "I've done my job." He wants desperately to be cool, mortifying his kids by memorizing every dance move in High School Musical and asserting his (faulty) knowledge of text-message-speak ("WTF: 'Why the Face...
...That's a first. In the past, Iranians rallied around even unpopular governments when confronted by the outside world. Iraq's 1980 invasion of Iran helped a young revolution already running out of steam consolidate its hold on power and survive eight years of the Middle East's deadliest modern conflict. Tehran's quest for nuclear energy, widely embraced as a key to development in the 21st century, has also long been a potent unifier of Iran's disparate political factions. Persian national pride has been a powerful force for millennia...
...Shenzhen, which requires IPO applicants to have at least three years' operating history and profits. GEM may consider for listing a company that turned a profit of as low as $730,000 in the previous one year, provided total sales exceeded $44 million. (See pictures of the making of modern China...