Photographs by Denver Post photojournalist Craig F. Walker track Ian FIsher from high school graduation through basic training, assignment to Colorado's Fort Carson and a year-long deployment in Iraq.
Webdoc qui suit le parcours d'un lycéen américain de son enrôlement dans l'armée à son déploiement en Irak.
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The pay gap between executives and the average American worker has always been pretty big, and seems to have increased as the world's economy grows. But with the recent recession bringing the most desperate financial conditions the world has seen since the Great Depression, one could be excused for expecting this gap to be reduced.
Tackling the high cost of health care is politically bruising and difficult work around the world. Among developed countries, only the Norwegians rival our level of spending. The French wrestle with rising costs every year. The Canadians are searching for a better model, and have had their eyes on France. But for all their troubles, the French and the Canadians - two bogeymen in the American reform debate - spend much less and live longer than we Americans.
Likewise with transparency. There is no questioning the good that transparency creates in a wide range of contexts, government especially. But we should also recognize that the collateral consequence of that good need not itself be good. And if that collateral bad is busy certifying to the American public what it thinks it already knows, we should think carefully about how to avoid it.
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Of course I'm flipping out in our Editor's chat about the fact that Alejandro "The Holy Mountain" Jodorowsky collaborated with Jean "Mœbius" Giraud, H.R. Giger, and Pink Floyd to adapt Frank Herbert's Dune into a film in 1975 — a project that never took off due to funding issues — when Rob, cultured beyond American measure, casually coughs that me not knowing about it is impossible, simply because it is too awesome not to be known.
Yet, I did not know!
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I didn’t read English well, so I mainly taught myself these things by studying the pictures and diagrams. By the time I saw my first windmill on the cover of an American textbook called Using Energy, I was able to apply all this previous knowledge and set out to build my own.
Introducing a New Magazine About the Ideas Behind American Culture.
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"Julie Albright doesn't want to move away from her San Francisco neighborhood near Chinatown, even if their new apartment is just a few miles away. Moving means leaving her best friend, Ivy, and her pet rabbit, Nutmeg. Worst of all, it means leaving Dad, now that her parents are divorced."
The American Girl® brand was established in 1986 by educator & entrepreneur Pleasant T. Rowland. Mattel acquired American Girl's parent Pleasant Company in 1998. American Girl is the direct marketer of the popular collectible-quality American Girl 18'' dolls -- The marketing "hook" for their more widely distributed merchandise tie-ins -- primarily a well-regarded series of books aimed at the 4-13 year old age group.
]]>Pour aider les bibliothécaires américains à mieux cerner les conséquences de l’accord, l’ALA (American Library Association) a pris de son côté l’initiative de publier un Super Simple Summary en deux pages seulement, qui permet d’aller à l’essentiel. Sur une suggestion de Marlène lancée au détour d’un échange sur Twitter (c’est fou tout ce qui commence sur Twitter en ce moment !), je me suis attelé à une traduction en français de ce résumé, pensant qu’il pourrait s’agir d’un appoint utile pour mieux appréhender l’accord Google de ce côté-ci de l’Atlantique. Merci à Marlène d’avoir lancé cette idée, ainsi que pour sa relecture et ses corrections ! Vous pourrez trouver cette traduction sous la forme d’un document public acessible sur GoogleDoc (décidément pas moyen d’échapper à Google !). La traduction a également été déposée dans E-Lis à cette adresse.
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karl le 21 aoû 2009 04:33
Salut Olivier,
tu seras peut-être intéressé par les lettres et communications des personnes des camps japonais, comme par exemple Lone Heart Mountain du fond d'archives de Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives (JARDA).
* We all share the same morning and evening Internet addiction: On average, European traffic starts picking up around 5am GMT / 7 am CEST and similarly US traffic takes off around the same time at 7am EDT. Internet traffic also reaches its peaks in the early evening (7pm GMT / 9pm CEST in Europe and 10pm EDT / 7 pm PDT in the US). * North American’s don’t surf over dinner: Unlike European traffic, US daily Internet percentages take a small dip in the early evening between 6pm and 10pm EDT. In contrast, Europe traffic keeps climbing through the evening until a marked 9pm GMT / 11pm CEST drop off. Of course, Europeans tend towards later (and longer) dinner hours than their North American counterparts. * What Europeans do at night: Actually, this bullet point should be what Europeans don’t do at night — spend a lot of time on the Internet. In contrast to North America, European traffic plummets much more steeply and reaches a lower daily minimum than US traffic (US traffic never drops below 50% whereas Europe declines more more than 60% from its peak). Apparently, North American Internet users stay up later and use the Internet longer (next blog post we’ll explore what they’re doing on the Internet late at night).