Waves
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They take their seats and, as Sam
waves
to Sally sitting with her classmates, he is struck by how quickly 17 years have passed.
Estimates of temperature increases, heat waves, and cold
waves
are all nearly identical to those produced six years ago.
As the dust settles from the shock
waves
of the financial crisis, and with trends pointing towards the US-China axis as the key motor of the global economy, Europe is clearly in a more defensive frame of mind.
Trump’s diplomatic breach sent shock
waves
across Asia, which he then aggravated by asking, in a series of tweets, if China consulted with the US before devaluing its currency or building a massive military base in the South China Sea.
Just look at the US: where would America be if it had introduced barriers to entry to various
waves
of new immigrants and remained confined to Anglo Saxon settlers?
This year alone, catastrophicheat
waves
have stricken North Africa, Europe, Japan, Pakistan, Australia, and Argentina.
But falling share prices should not blind us to the fact that on top of the ongoing information revolution, three fresh
waves
of revolutionary technology are poised to hit: bio-technology (including new medical technologies and genetic engineering, such as the creation of human embryos through cloning), nanotechnology, and robotics.
A Long-Term Plan for Syria’s RefugeesBEIRUT – After spending just three days with refugees and aid workers in Lebanon and Turkey, the apocalyptic nature of the Syria crisis is all too apparent: more than 100,000 deaths, nine million people displaced, two million children out of school, diseases like polio resurfacing, and neighboring countries struggling to cope with
waves
of refugees.
More prosaically, leaders with contextual intelligence, like surfers, have the ability to judge and adjust to new
waves
and ride them successfully.
The advent of digital “new media” was once heralded as a democratizing trend that would give ordinary people a measure of control over the “air waves,” at the expense of big companies or established institutions.
Uribe’s relentlessness has brought on
waves
of defections from the FARC, which is now down to 9,000 guerrillas from a peak of 16,000 in 2001.
Furthermore,
waves
of Syrian refugees are threatening the sustainability of the Jordanian monarchy, already roiled by profound internal cleavages.
There have been four
waves
of Indian emigration.
Much of that increase has more to do with public perceptions about supposed crime
waves
and ham-handed public and political responses to occasional headline-capturing murders, than any actual underlying crime rate.
The relative lack of scrutiny of Turkey’s treatment of journalists by many in the West has changed, however, owing to the recent
waves
of arrests in the so-called “Ergenekon” case.
Rome did not succumb to the rise of another empire, but to the onslaught of
waves
of barbarians.
More atypical, it involved three
waves
of price declines, divided by 1-2 year respites.
Likewise, lined-up workers at one of the factories responded to my gesticulations with
waves
and smiles as we passed them.
More precisely, although countries can ride
waves
of growth and exploit commodity cycles despite having dysfunctional political institutions, the real test comes when times turn less favorable and a country needs to change course.
They detect the strains in space/time geometry induced by gravitational
waves
by measuring alterations in the arm-lengths of the interferometers.
LIGO’s success is not only a triumph of technology; it is also – and more importantly – the result of a century of work by theorists on mathematical descriptions of gravitational
waves
– not just Einstein, but also Leopold Infeld, Joshua Goldberg, Richard Feynman, Felix Pirani, Ivor Robinson, Hermann Bondi, and André Lichnerowicz.
LIGO’s discovery, specifically, was made possible by the Polish physicist Andrzej Trautman, who provided gravitational wave theory with sharp mathematical rigor, and the French physicist Thibault Damour, who developed practical mathematical tools for using observed wave fronts to decipher information about the waves’ sources.
Measurements of gravitational
waves
will not only provide insights into phenomena that until now were completely out of reach, such as the Big Bang, black hole horizons, and the interiors of neutron stars; they could also revolutionize our understanding of the universe.
And that is exactly what future measurements of gravitational
waves
could provide.
But Morales’ nationalization of Bolivia’s oil and gas fields sent shock
waves
through the international community.
Successive
waves
of QE would amount to debasing the value of the dollar, and thus inflating away massive US debts.
Then there are the economic and human costs of increasingly frequent and severe climate-related disasters – including floods, droughts, storms, and heat waves, all of which are already on the rise worldwide.
Economists have always believed that previous
waves
of job destruction led to an equilibrium between supply and demand in the labor market at a higher level of both employment and earnings.
Oil and coal companies and their political allies warn us of fiscal catastrophe if we do that – as if heat waves, droughts, storms, and rising seas did not bring their own fiscal and social catastrophes.
Breaking with protocol, however, Hirohito cautioned against giving up on diplomacy too soon, and then recited his grandfather Emperor Meiji’s poem from the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War, in 1904: “Beyond all four seas, all are brothers and sisters/Then why oh why these rough winds and waves?”
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