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“British Cabinet ministers and members of the national security council were told nothing about the existence and scale of the vast data-gathering programmes run by British and American intelligence agencies, a former member of the government has revealed. Chris Huhne, who was in the cabinet for two years until 2012, said ministers were in ‘utter …
Boys with sisters are approximately 13% less likely to do the dishes than boys with brothers. ( Prospect Magazine, August 2013). I blame their mothers. An Epicurean upbringing teaches you to do the dishes for fear of being made to do the ironing.
In addition to shutting down the government, House Republicans have voted for a large cut in the amount of money devoted to food stamps. Because of the poor state of the economy the number of people on Food Stamps has shown a large increase from 26 million in 2007 to almost 48 million now. This …
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In England during the 17th Century only about 1% of children born were deemed illegitimate. But by 1800, almost 40% of brides came to the altar pregnant! and about 25% of all first-born children were illegitimate. This was to be a permanent sea-change, brought about by the mass movement of people from the conservative countryside …
In the New York Times on September 26th there was an article by Anna Sauerbrey that talked about how English words were finding their way into every other language, in this case German. She pointed out, however,that German had some words that were difficult to translate into English. One is the word “zeitgenossen” which superficially …
