This Wednesday show starts in a U.S. island territory that's about 1,000 miles southeast of Miami, Florida. It's Puerto Rico and the message from its governor to the people living there is be calm and be prepared for aftershocks. The southern part of...
This Wednesday show starts in a U.S. island territory that's about 1,000 miles southeast of Miami, Florida. It's Puerto Rico and the message from its governor to the people living there is be calm and be prepared for aftershocks. The southern part of...
What body of water is located along the border between Israel and Jordan? The Dead Sea, The Sea of Galilee, The Gulf of Aqaba, of the Red Sea. It's the salty Dead Sea that's between Israel and Jordon and it has the lowest elevation on Earth's surface...
Our first topic today concerns American service men and women in the Middle East. Yesterday we told you about the back and forth attacks involving the U.S. and Iran. Those have been carried out over the past few weeks in Iran's western neighbor Iraq....
If you live in a desert, maintaining a supply of fresh water is a challenge. 如果你生活在沙漠中,保持淡水的供应是个挑战。 One answer is desalination, but that needs a source of brine from which to remove the salt 一个答案是海...
前美联储主席保罗沃尔克(3) He was happy, even at the Fed, to wear crumpled suits, live in a students' apartment block and fly coach back to New York and the family at weekends. (His salary had fallen by half when he went from the New York F...
7. Keep meetings short. Ideally, a meeting should be the length of a sitcom episode not a film by Martin Scorsese. Bartlebys law is that 80% of the time of 80% of the people at meetings is wasted. If you doubt the numbers, have a think about the last...
4. Make your priorities for the next year clear, and communicate them well. Is the company (or division) trying to launch a new product? Or to boost sales of existing products? Or to control costs? If you are not sure, then those who work for you wil...
Business 来源于《商业》版块 Bartleby 巴托比职场专栏 A managers manifesto 一位经理的宣言 Eight resolutions to adopt in 2020 2020年适用的八项计划 The start of the year is traditionally the time to make resolutions to chan...
Books arts 来源于《图书和艺术》版块 Johnson 约翰逊语言专栏 Climate-speak 关于气候的表达 Of train-boasts, plane-shame and electric automobiles 火车、飞机和电动汽车 Identifying shifts in the Earths climate requires d...