‘Assuming a normal distribution, there are only about 10,000 people in the US who perform at +4SD and a similar number in Europe. So, this is quite a select population (roughly, the top few hundred high school seniors each year in the US). If you extrapolate the NE Asian numbers to the 1.3 billion population […]
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Chinese Atrocities Visible and Invisible find that most criticism of atrocities in the former Soviet Union, China, and Korea is foremost insincere. For example, it is inaccurate to compare the standard of living in the USSR with the US. The US comprises, in fact, the Western hemisphere. The average standard of living in America and
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.A Chinese Water Project The South-North Water Diversion Project is the largest engineering undertaking in human history and dwarfs. The Three Gorges Dam. Therefore, A Chinese Water Project brings water from huge southern rivers to parched northern China. So, Pumping it over mountains and through tunnels under other rivers along its route. It’s the
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Ten questions about COVID-19 for US politicians The number of confirmed Ten questions about COVID-19 cases in the U.S. exceeded 1 million, 1/3 of the world’s total, in less than 100 days since the first confirmed on Jan. 20, with a death toll surpassing 60,000. Responding poorly to the pandemic, the U.S. shifted responsibilities,
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A San Francisco Every Month How China’s Urbanization Pays for Itself The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. Confucius, Analects. San Franciscans unable to afford the $3,600 monthly rental for a one bedroom apartment sleep in the streets and, like most world cities Beijing recently faced a similar problem.
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