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Economists and policymakers are expressing concern over the sharp decline in birth rates in many countries, but the UN predicts that the world's population will continue to grow until the mid ...
Alex and the Wednesday Chess Club, illustrated by Stacey Schuett (Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster, 2004) Apple Pie 4th of July , illustrated by Margaret Chodos-Irvine (Harcourt, 2002) This Next New Year , illustrated by Yangsook Choi (Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000); also in a Chinese-English bilingual edition ...
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The "mother of all bubbles" is due to pop soon as U.S. outperformance has been inflated by massive amounts of debt, warned Ruchir Sharma, chair of Rockefeller International. The U.S. has become ...
World leaders are meeting in Paris this month in what amounts to a last-ditch effort to avert the worst ravages of climate change. Climatologists now say that the best case scenario — assuming immediate and dramatic emissions curbs — is that planetary surface temperatures will increase by at least 2 degrees Celsius in the coming decades.
Illustrated by Stacey Schuett. [101] [102] Boy, Can He Dance! (Four Winds/MacMillan, 1993). Illustrated by Paul Yalowitz. [103] [104] Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch (Simon & Schuster Children's, 1991). Illustrated by Paul Yalowitz. [105] [106] The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything (Harper Trophy, 1988). By Linda Williams and ...
This series came from a determination to understand why, and to explore how their way back from war can be smoothed. Moral injury is a relatively new concept that seems to describe what many feel: a sense that their fundamental understanding of right and wrong has been violated, and the grief, numbness or guilt that often ensues.