The UAE,one of the ten driest nations on Earth, with the help of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research, is studying whether to build a mountain to increase rainfall. The mountain is designed to trigger cloud formation and much-needed rainfall. Rising water demand in the country, combined with the effects of climate change, takes …
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America is becoming a society governed by ghosts, a society where very rich people with no connection to the living world are “putting restrictions on our country’s wealth”. How? Through so-called “dynasty trusts”. America has always set limits on what the wealthy can do with their wealth once they’ve died. They can erect monuments in …
The disconnect between the people and the business community community has reached huge proportions in the US. Only one third of Americans believe large corporations are having a positive effect on the country and only 2 in 10 people surveyed say they have confidence in big business. The latter think that if they explain their …
£2.8 bn is the cost to the British National Health Service of treating visitors: students, workers on visas, tourists, immigrants, expats popping back to see their old GP and, yes, “health tourists”. But the deliberate exploitation of the NHS by the un-entitled is estimated to be about £200m a year, which is a lot less …
Is that a tall, dark, and handsome man standing over there? Or a tall, dark and handsome man? Both uses of the comma are correct, but the British Department for Education apparently doesn’t realise it and wrongly penalises children in exams for using the “Oxford comma”. Any child writing “tall, dark, and handsome” is thus …
