I think they will never really enjoy true democracy in China.
I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society. - Simon Winchester
I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.
- Simon Winchester
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned f… - Simon Winchester
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned f…
All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invar… - Simon Winchester
All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invar…
Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the Un… - Simon Winchester
Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the Un…
Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one… - Simon Winchester
Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one…
We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But the… - Simon Winchester
We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But the…
Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about something like a bus crash in Bang… - Simon Winchester
Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about something like a bus crash in Bang…
Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, i… - Simon Winchester
Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, i…
Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively dangerous; the forces that made them beautiful ar… - Simon Winchester
Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively dangerous; the forces that made them beautiful ar…
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