Failure of US to Pay Debt Raises Fears of Financial Crisis The United States government has a history of paying its bills on time. Many people, however, are worried about what would happen if the U.S. defaults on debt that it owes lenders. Default me...
Brazil Rejects Offshore Oil Drilling Request from State Oil Company Brazil's environmental agency recently refused to give oil company Petrobras permission to search for oil under the ocean near the mouth of the Amazon River. Petrobras is Brazil's st...
Dispute Centered around Redevelopment of Historic Tokyo Park, Stadiums Tokyo's governor is a major supporter of a building project that is raising concerns among sports fans, history fans and environmentalists. Critics say the redevelopment plan for...
At a recent event for investors, Tesla presented an idea that may change the way cars are made around the world. 在最近的一次投资者活动上，特斯拉提出了一种可能改变世界各地造车方式的理念。 The manufacturing idea is...
A New Look from Borrowed Time By Ralph Richmond Just ten years ago, I sat across the desk from a doctor with a stethoscope. Yes, he said, there is a lesion in the left, upper lobe. You have a moderately advanced case I listened, stunned, as he contin...
I Wish I Could believe by C. Day Lewis The best lack all conviction, While the worst are full of passionate intesity. Those two lines of Yeats for me sum up the matter as it stands today when the very currency of belief seems debased. I was brought u...
Life, free to soar by Wayne B.Lynn One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds darting and dancing. As the strong...
Chain of Love How do you account for your remarkable accomplishment in life? Queen Victoria of England asked Helen Keller. How do you explain the fact that even though you were both blind and deaf, you were able to accomplish so much? Ms. Keller's an...
The highest grace A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water at the...
A Freeman's Worship The life of Man, viewed outwardly, is but a small thing in comparison with the forces of Nature. The slave is doomed to worship Time and Fate and Death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all h...
