This may sound strange at first, but it is true. A young woman asked me to check her application package for going to a university in the US, where she will spend two years doing her research as part of her Ph.D. thesis work. I noticed the name of her host in the US being a Chinese name, and ...
This Russian proverb was adopted as a signature phrase by Reagan, who subsequently used it frequently when discussing U.S. relations with the Soviet Union . See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify I was rather surprised, and upset, when I fo ...
It was bad enough when some researchers started to use “data” to describe “(numerical) model output” a few years ago; now some scientists are saying “(numerical) projections are becoming observations…” Thank goodness, I don’t have to listen to such abuse of English words at a conferen ...
谁能在1949 年10 月1 日预料到,中国(的股市)能带动全球(一起坐滑梯)? World stocks fall amid China credit concerns Stock markets fall after Chinese central bank lets credit rates rise to curb informal lending http://news.yahoo.com/world-stocks-fall-amid-china ...