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When We Cease to Understand the World (Spanish: Un Verdor Terrible; lit. ' A Terrible Greening ' ) is a 2021 book by Chilean writer Benjamín Labatut . Originally written in Spanish and published by Anagrama , the book was translated into English by Adrian Nathan West and published by Pushkin Press and New York Review of Books in 2021.
"It was because something qualitatively new had happened," said Socolow. " Putin was threatening to use nuclear weapons [in Ukraine.]" The first clock, announced in 1947, was set a full 7 minutes ...
World leaders are meeting in Paris this month in what amounts to a last-ditch effort to avert the worst ravages of climate change. Climatologists now say that the best case scenario — assuming immediate and dramatic emissions curbs — is that planetary surface temperatures will increase by at least 2 degrees Celsius in the coming decades.
George Clooney had some pointed remarks about the Donald Trump administration, describing the current political climate as one where people “don’t worry about facts.” “You take a narrative ...
Luke Smith is introduced as "the Archetype" in the first episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures, the New Year's Day special "Invasion of the Bane" (2007). [5] The Bane known as Mrs Wormwood (Samantha Bond) creates the Archetype from thousands of samples of DNA taken from visitors touring their Bubble Shock! drink factory. [5]
Mrs Wormwood is now a fugitive from her people, the Bane kindred, after being blamed for the death of the Bane Mother and the failed invasion of Earth. [N 1] She is searching for the body of Horath, an immortal cyborg that was defeated and had its consciousness separated and placed at opposite ends of the galaxy 3,000 years ago.
The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances. The World Bank and its private-sector lending arm, the International Finance Corp., have financed governments and companies accused of human rights violations such as rape, murder and torture.
The World Bank began financing the Kenya Forest Service’s Natural Resources Management Project in 2007. It promised to cover $68.5 million of the project’s $78 million budget in an effort to help the KFS “improve the livelihoods of communities participating in the co-management of water and forests.”