Word: spate
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...hopes the spate of publicity generated overseas for Shanghai's Art Deco tradition might serve to boost his conservationist cause. But getting Shanghai itself to take notice is a slow process. A delegation of Shanghainese officials-representing government, urban planning, preservation and business development-attended the Miami event. "I invited them all to see the same exhibition in Shanghai, and they never came," says Erh. "It's a joke. I spent $3,750 of my own money to ship the pictures to Miami, when they could have seen them right here in Shanghai...
...trial to the Kansas Board of Education, the histories of science and religion are intertwined in what has long been an antagonistic relationship. But the stakes today are as high as ever—are religion and science reconcilable, or are they fundamentally at odds? Despite a recent spate of strongly-worded books on both sides of the issue aimed at the public sphere, in the Academy at least, science and religion have, for the most part, reached an uneasy truce—by segregating themselves, utterly and totally. But a recent article in The New York Times about...
Apple recently unveiled its iPhone to much hoopla. Along with rave reviews for Steve Jobs’ labor of love have come a new spate of reports in the media blaming Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) for everything from causing Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) to ruining marriages. A recent Forbes article was even entitled “Is Your BlackBerry Ruining your Sex Life?” These reports have been targeted at members of the workforce—from the up-and-coming attorney to the Fortune 500 CEO—yet have failed to account for the newest class...
...practitioners of the dismal science might crow. "Economics beats politics any time." The mighty dynamics of expansion seem to bear them out. So does the history of the first globalization, from 1850-1914. There were lots of small wars then: the Crimean one, the wars of German unification, a spate of long-forgotten battles over the Balkans, skirmishes from one end of Africa to another and throughout Southeast Asia. Yet international trade and investment prevailed over protectionist sentiment...
...Pats!” outside of the postseason—are probably somewhere between the odds that Iraqis will spontaneously gather in the middle of Baghdad and start singing “We are the World” and the odds that this winter’s spate of warm weather isn’t related to global warming...