Not long ago, being the boss of a big Western tech firm was a dream job. As the billions rolled in, so did the plaudits: Google, Facebook, Amazon and ……
UNIT 2
Government-transparency activists sued the Trump administration Monday, demanding the release of records showing who has visited the White House, when……
UNIT 3
In a 1977 talk, Aaron Copland complained that concerts by America's orchestras were still frustratingly dominated by the "great works of the past." No……
UNIT 4
The latest bad news is that reading and writing scores on the SAT have once again declined. The language competence of high schoolers fell steeply in ……
UNIT 5
Whether you already own a home or are thinking of purchasing, the tax legislation pending before Congress poses serious questions: Am I going to get s……
UNIT 6
So unstoppable has the euro crisis become that even rescue talk only fuels ever-rising panic. Investors have sniffed out that Europe's leaders seem un……
UNIT 7
The rise of the robots has raised the possibility of a future where there is simply less work for humans to do. To frazzled office workers, a world wh……
UNIT 8
From quantum computing and smartphones to self-driving cars, home thermostats and delivering the Internet by balloon, Google or, technically, Alphabet……
UNIT 9
With so much news being about the scarcity of things, it may be easy to overlook news about infinity, or rather our understanding of it. In July, two ……
UNIT 10
Derek Bok, a former president of Harvard, once observed that "universities share one characteristic with compulsive gamblers: there is never enough mo……
UNIT 11
On January 1st a minor lexical revolution rolled through Japan. A new decree ordained that official documents should reverse the order of Japanese peo……
UNIT 12
European town squares are being taken over by young people railing against unemployment and the injustice of yawning income gaps. There are multiple a……
UNIT 13
America has been here before. A steady labor market recovery seemed possible early in 2010, when GDP growth approached 4%, until panic over a developi……
UNIT 14
We're living longer, which sounds good, but given age is a risk factor for so many chronic diseases, can we positively influence the way we age? It's ……
UNIT 15
The Occupy Wall Street protest movement has raised serious questions about the role of capitalist institutions, particularly corporations, in our soci……
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