Italian children are reluctant to consign their parents to old people’s homes, but also often have neither the time nor the inclination to look after the elderly themselves. Migrant workers, says Professor de Leo, have brought “a massive improvement”. (Too much so, grumble some middle-aged Italians, aghast at their aged parents’ hooking up with supposedly gold-digging migrants.) https://www.economist.com/international/2018/11/24/suicide-is-declining-almost-everywhere
their aged parents’ hooking up with supposedly gold-digging migrants
今読みかけの記事から At one demonstration in Paris, a protester dressed in a yellow jacket started to heckle a reporter from a Turkish state news news channel during a live broadcast. "They don't report on any protests in their own country," he yelled out. "but here they are reporting from France." The gilet jaune turned out to be Turkish. The station, naturally, called him a terrorist sympathiser.
で The gilet jaune turned out to be Turkish.が最初??だった。 だから最後の文章がわからなかったんだが。 ちょっと考えてわかった。金持ちの子供のトルコ人が大学にでも 通ってるのかな?それでデモか。いい気なもんだ。
We narrowed that list down to eight economists who we think represent the future of the discipline: Ms Dell and her Harvard colleagues Isaiah Andrews, Nathaniel Hendren and Stefanie Stantcheva; Parag Pathak and Heidi Williams of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Emi Nakamura of the University of California, Berkeley and Amir Sufi of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Taken together, they display an impressive combination of clever empiricism and serious-minded wonkery. https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2018/12/18/our-pick-of-the-decades-eight-best-young-economists
ところで、同記事内に With Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics (the most obvious omission from our list in 2008)・・・ とあるが、omission したのは、フランス人が嫌いだからじゃないか?
ということで、こんなのも。 The flashiest early example of origami solving a scientific problem was when Koryo Miura and Masamori Sakamaki, astrophysicists at Tokyo University’s space-science department, devised a new approach to the unfolding and refolding of a satellite’s solar panels, first put into practice in 1995. ・・・ To have a fold named after you is a rarefied honour in the origami world, but “Miura-ori” has since earned that distinction. https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2018/12/18/origami-spreads-its-wings
TE: Many young people are shy, so the machine asks them questions to draw out information that lovers might want to know. You can search for someone who lives in the same area, or has the same hobbies. LM: Can you find men who love “The Tale of Genji”? TE: Here are ten of them.
“Parenting”, in the sense that it is now understood, is a relatively new term; it first popped up in 1958, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, and came into widespread use only in the 1970s. Experts see it as an important factor in successful child-rearing, along with things such as genetic predisposition and external circumstances. https://www.economist.com/special-report/2019/01/05/the-art-and-science-of-parenting
The banks will pay a $1.3bn fine. The German subsidiary also pleaded guilty to steering at least $393m through the American financial system on behalf of sanctioned entities. It is the second big penalty for sanctions-busting recently, following a $1.1bn fine slapped on Standard Chartered.
When a train from Atbara, more than 200 miles north, arrived in Khartoum on April 23rd, thousands of protesters greeted it. The carriages were as packed as those of a Tokyo subway train—but with more joyous passengers.
Just now the BJP may be hunting for a new grievance. The Supreme Court recently issued a ruling that had the effect of depriving it of its favourite cause, by clearing the way for a Hindu temple to be built at the site of the demolished mosque in Ayodhya. The citizenship ruckus appeals to the party for the very same reasons that it has prompted widespread alarm. The plan to compile a register of genuine Indians as part of a hunt for foreign interlopers affects all 1.3bn people in the country. It could drag on for years, inflaming passions over and over again, as the list is compiled, challenged and revised. Just how the register will be drawn up, and what the consequences of exclusion are, remain woolly. Indeed, Mr Modi is already claiming it has all been misunderstood. Meanwhile, the hullabaloo helps reinforce the notion, so electorally valuable to the BJP, that Hindus, although about 80% of the population, are threatened by shadowy forces that it alone has the courage to confront.
Just now the BJP may be hunting (for a new grievance).
The Supreme Court recently issued a ruling [that had the effect ((of depriving it (of its favourite cause))), <<by clearing the way (for a Hindu temple) <to be built ((at the site of the demolished mosque (in Ayodhya)))>>>].
The citizenship ruckus appeals (to the party) (for the very same reasons [that it has prompted widespread alarm]).
The plan (to compile a register of genuine Indians) ((as part of a hunt (for foreign interlopers))) affects all 1.3bn people (in the country).
It could drag on (for years), ((inflaming passions (over and over again))), [as the list is compiled, challenged and revised].
[Just how the register will be drawn up], and [what the consequences (of exclusion) are], remain woolly.
Indeed, Mr Modi is already claiming [it has all been misunderstood].
Meanwhile, the hullabaloo helps reinforce the notion, ((so electorally valuable (to the BJP))), [[that Hindus, (although about 80% of the population), are threatened ((by shadowy forces [that it alone has the courage (to confront)]))]].