Word: socials
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...epic story of China's modernization has often been told in numbers. Once dormant, insulated and ravaged by war and social upheaval, China is now the world's third biggest economy with more mobile-phone users and, by the end of this year, more car sales than anywhere else on the planet. But the story behind those numbers, of the coal miners and assembly-line workers, of the parents and children they've left behind and the arduous journeys made out of sheer desperation to find work, has rarely been given the same attention as the country's impressive economic...
...currency that it makes the stuff effectively worthless. Our fiscal straits aren't that dire just yet. But chronic deficits during George W. Bush's Administration, even bigger deficits brought on by the financial crisis and President Obama's efforts to stimulate the economy, plus looming shortfalls related to Social Security and Medicare will add up to economy-straining debts a few years from now - barring major changes in fiscal policy or a huge economic boom. (Read "Is the Dollar Dying a Slow Death...
Building on the linguistic science developed by the pioneering semiotician Ferdinand de Saussure, Lévi-Strauss became a pivotal figure in the development of structuralism, which holds that universal mental structures underlie the behaviors, social relations and beliefs of virtually all societies in all eras. It was an idea with many critics, but in the 1960s, '70s and '80s, structuralism became a hugely influential school of thought, with offshoots--some of them just barely related to Lévi-Strauss's original thinking--in many other disciplines, including sociology and literature...
...excursions are designed to connect tourists with the communities they visit. "When done correctly, these programs can also help maintain the natural environments that are the draw for particular regions of the world," says Kara Hurst, a top executive at Business for Social Responsibility, a nonprofit that develops corporate-social-responsibility initiatives...
McDonnell will be the state's first Republican governor in eight years after his decisive win. (Republicans swept all three statewide offices.) Once a GOP stronghold, Virginia emerged as a swing state after backing Obama last year. But unlike in 2008, independents favored the Republican, who sidelined social issues to run as a pragmatist...