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Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition
Showing posts with label Economie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economie. Show all posts
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English teaching A Friday request FROM THE ECONOMIST
Jan 6th 2012, 15:43 by R.L.G. | NEW YORK
SOURCE: THE ECONOMIST
SOURCE: THE ECONOMIST
- English teaching: a friday request
MANY English teachers around the world use The Economist to help teach English as a foreign language. We (the newspaper as a whole, and this blog) would like to help them out, but so far, ideas are hazy for how to do so. Are there any English teachers, or anyone else, among our readers who have good ideas about how we might use Economist.com and this blog to teach English? Please jump in in the comments if so.
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
INFORMACIÓN SOBRE EL MUNDO: ESTADÍSTICAS
http://www.worldometers.info/es/
Satellite images of Earth show roads, air traffic, cities at night and internet cables
Air traffic routes are shown between North America and Europe. Felix Pharand-Deschenes has created global snapshots depicting how power lines, roads and even air traffic corridors have come to dominate the surface of Earth. His visualisations based on real data show air traffic routes, the underwater cables that carry the internet, road and rail networks and electricity transmission lines all superimposed over cities at night.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Worldwide 'Occupy' protests held over financial crisis, from BBC NEWS.
VIDEO: Protesters took to the streets in Sydney, Tokyo and Taipei
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15319924
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15319924
- Protesters in cities across the world are taking to the streets to demonstrate against alleged corporate greed and government cutbacks.
- Organisers say rallies will be held in 951 cities in 82 countries from Asia and the Americas, to Africa and Europe.
- Hundreds of people have already protested in Australia and New Zealand as well as other Asian cities.
- Many protest groups are taking their names from the high-profile Occupy Wall Street rally in New York.
- Organisers of the 15 October worldwide protests said on their website that the aim was to "initiate the global change we want".
- READ MORE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15319924
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
Reading practice: Spanish unemployment claims rise in August, snapping 4-month run of declines.
- MADRID - Spain's Labor Ministry says the number of people filing claims for unemployment benefits rose by 51,185 in August, ending a four-month run of declines in the country's jobless ranks.
- The increase reported Friay marked a 1.25 per cent rise over July and left the total number filing for benefits at 4,130,927.
Read more:
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/article/42720--spanish-unemployment-claims-rise-in-august-snapping-4-month-run-of-declines
Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, left, and Spain's finance Minister Elena Salgado wait before a extraordinary session at the Spanish Parliament in Madrid, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011. Zapatero and its opposition leader agreed to amend the Constitution to limit the government deficit. Spain is among many countries which are far from complying with an EU-mandated deficit limit of 3 percent of GDP. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
U.S. News: China And US Economy IMF Expects China to be Largest Economy by 2016.
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TRANSCRIPT:
(Image Source: Politically Illustrated)
BY EMOKE BEBIAK
ANCHOR ALEX ROZIER
You're watching
multisource business video news analysis from Newsy.
Mark your calendar for 2016. That’s
when the International Monetary Fund expects America
to surrender its leading position as world’s largest economy to China
It was Marketwatch’s Brett Arends who discovered the grim
prediction buried deep in an IMF report.
“When you talk to a lot of Wall
Street economists and talking heads, they will tell you, ‘Oh, it’s decades
away’ and all that stuff. Nonsense. It is five years’ time. 2016. That is the
date put out by the IMF.”
In the original article, Arends
warns...
“Most people aren’t prepared for
this. They aren’t even aware it’s that close. … The most bearish will put the
figure in the mid-2020s. But they’re miscounting. They’re only comparing the gross
domestic products of the two countries using current exchange rates.”
Arends explains using exchange rates
is not a reliable basis for predictions, because they change easily and
governments can manipulate them. Instead, the IMF compared the two country’s
“purchasing power parities” or PPPs, which measures how much someone’s income
can buy in a given economy.
Looking at the current trends, IMF
concludes China ’s rising PPP
will top that of the US
But a blogger for The Financial Times points out IMF has put out
conflicting reports based on what numbers they analyze.
“Statistics are notoriously slippery
things… Measured using PPP, China
will overtake the US US
The International Business Times denies the legitimacy of the
recent report saying...
“The IMF and World Bank’s projections
... shouldn’t be trusted at all. Economists at institutions like the IMF and
World Bank have little imagination and assume that current conditions will
continue indefinitely. Their ‘projections’ should be more aptly named ‘adjusted
extrapolations’.”
CNN asks what slipping to the second
place would mean for the US
CNN’s Zain Verjee explains it would
have serious implications for everyday Americans.
“For ordinary people though, Carol,
one of the issues is going to be jobs. You know, if the US economy grows around 2 percent, less people
are going to want to invest their money in the US
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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The White Coast Published in New York Times: December 27, 2010
Call it the Boxing Day storm, the blizzard that slithered up the East Coast on the night after Christmas and into the next morning. Like other historic blizzards — 1978 and 1993 come to mind — this one carried a blunt message: stay indoors and stay put. Staying put was not hard to do on Monday. Nearly every mode of transportation in and around New York City, and much of the East Coast, had been suspended or was severely hampered. This was all the more troublesome because it caught so many holiday travelers in transit.
What made the storm brutal wasn’t just the snow it dropped, from Alabama and Georgia all the way to Nova Scotia. It was also the wind the storm generated, swirling around an intense area of low pressure that crept north just offshore. Gusts off Cape Cod reached 80 miles per hour, and gusts of more than 60 m.p.h. were recorded in parts of New York, causing whiteout conditions on Monday morning and dangerous windchills on Monday night.
For all the disruption and danger this blizzard brought, it was hard not to revel in the transformation it caused, waking to a white city, a day when nearly every human agenda was superseded by snow and even the best intentions were drifted over.
Now comes the hard part: digging out. In New York City, that means a countdown until your street is plowed, a test of city services that reaches into the remotest corner of every borough. The snow will turn gray, and swamps of slush will form at the curbs and corners. The tangle of travelers will come untangled, and it will be time to turn to the new year and see what storms and sunny, melting days early 2011 will bring.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
SEVERAL TIPS ON SURVIVING BOXING DAY MADNESS
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