Word: nosedives
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In its 180-year history, London's Evening Standard has been hit by strikes, walkouts and even a World War II bomb. But the mischievous, opinionated tabloid has also fought off numerous foes to become the capital's only afternoon read. Still, the challengers keep coming. Already suffering from steep...
A few hard-nosed foreign policy realists insisted that China's collapse was to the U.S.'s advantage. Some veteran cold warriors looked forward to the demise of the last communist regime in the world. To most Chinese, however, free elections were just a way for the party to pass...
Public opinion. Australians remain wary of nuclear power. A Newspoll early this month found that 51% opposed building nuclear power stations and 38% supported it. In the end, it's likely to be popular feeling, rather than hard-nosed argument, that decides whether Australia says nuclear or no.
On Jan. 27, at a Boston Ritz-Carlton dinner table with his friends of 50 years, George B. “Barry” Bingham Jr. ’56 proposed the impossible: a Charles River row in a lightweight eight-oar shell to take place this week.Two years earlier...
Visit the monkey house at any zoo and it'd be hard to conclude that man's near relative has much to say. But researchers at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, writing in Nature last week, have concluded that monkeys do indeed use simple verbal communication. They observed male...