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Mbs: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman
by Ben Hubbard
Published 10 Mar 2020

She hated waiting for someone to drop her off at the gym in the morning. The best part of driving would be “feeling more freedom.” Most of the students planned to get licenses as soon as possible, while a few would wait to see how the first women fared. Saudi Arabia had notoriously dangerous roads. One report said that car accidents had killed over nine thousand people in 2016. But the women were undeterred. Alzahrani, the architecture student, had ridden Jet Skis in the Red Sea and motorcycles in the desert, but had never driven a car. “I don’t know where the brake is and where the gas is,” she told me. But she managed to weave through a series of cones before hitting the brakes hard at a stop sign, jolting her passengers.

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Direct quotes from Al-Hathloul’s siblings are attributed in the text. would be driving by 2020: “How will women change the automotive market in KSA,” PWC Press Release, March 8, 2018. “feeling more freedom”: Author interview, Rehab Alhuwaider, March 2018. nine thousand people in 2016: “Car accidents kill over 9,000 people in 2016,” Arab News, May 11, 2017. “to be behind the wheel”: Author interview, Rahaf Alzahrani, March 2018. three hundred cinemas and two thousand screens: “Cinema estimated to contribute $24 billion to Saudi economy,” AlArabiya, Dec. 12, 2017. movie theaters in ten years: Author interview, Adam Aron, April 2018.

Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
by Nicholas A. Christakis
Published 27 Oct 2020

We are familiar with other viruses that follow this pattern, causing mild illness in children or in adults who have already experienced the illness as children, yet causing severe disease in adults who have not previously been exposed.32 Chicken pox has a mortality rate twenty times higher in fifteen- to forty-four-year-olds than it does in five- to fourteen-year-olds, but it does not usually cause severe problems for adults who had it as children.33 Similarly, Epstein-Barr virus causes mild disease in young children, but it can result in infectious mononucleosis in young adults and even be a risk factor for the onset of multiple sclerosis.34 Other evidence suggests that if people are infected with this virus as children, they might simply have a minor upper respiratory disease, but if infected for the first time as adults, it might put them at risk for Hodgkin’s lymphoma.35 * * * The pathogens evolve to respond to us, but we, at a slower pace, also evolve to respond to them. Infectious diseases have been a part of our evolutionary history for so long that they have left a mark on our genes. For instance, humans have evolved genetic changes that have proven useful in coping with malaria beginning over one hundred thousand years ago, tuberculosis over nine thousand years ago, cholera and bubonic plague over six thousand years ago, and smallpox over three thousand years ago.36 Infectious pathogens (even if nonepidemic) have arguably been a crucial selective pressure throughout the evolution of our species.37 The primary killers of human beings across evolutionary time are other human beings.

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In New York City as of April 11, 2020, Hispanics accounted for 34 percent of the deaths but were 29 percent of the population.70 Reports from the Indian Health Service suggested something similar was happening among American Indian tribes. As of July 17, 2020, there were 26,470 confirmed cases of coronavirus infection among American Indians, with over 9,000 of them occurring on the huge Navajo reservation that stretches across parts of New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona.71 The Navajo Nation is home to two hundred fifty thousand people, and at the end of April, it had the third-highest per capita rate of coronavirus infection in the United States, after New Jersey and New York.

The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It
by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
Published 1 Sep 2020

Even when Beijing finally found out about the virus, China did not rush to alert other countries, letting international flights from Wuhan continue after internal ones stopped. According to estimates from the South China Morning Post, from December 30, 2019, to January 22, 2020, eleven thousand people flew from Wuhan to Thailand, almost eleven thousand to Singapore, over nine thousand to Japan, and seven thousand to Hong Kong.4 Be this as it may, China can’t bear all the blame. It was far less secretive than it was earlier this century with SARS, where six months passed between scientists spotting in November 2002 that a virus had jumped from animals to humans and April 2003 when the obfuscating minister of health was sacked.

Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action That Changed America
by Writers For The 99%
Published 17 Dec 2011

Stephen Boyer had lived in Zuccotti Park for most of the two-month encampment, worked in its library, and helped create the massive OWS poetry anthology with anonymous to famous contributors from around the world. That night, he said, he could barely save the massive anthology, before cops shoved him out of the park, and he watched them dump books into the backs of trucks. “Our library had over nine thousand books, and a little less than five thousand were taken that night,” he said, adding that the rest of the books were stored in a nearby space lent to the movement. “I saved the anthology by strapping both [folders] to my back, and read from it during the raid.” When asked about the incident, Bill from the People’s Library added that the on-site computers, which the city also claimed were recoverable after the raid, had been “systematically destroyed.”

The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See
by Gary Price , Chris Sherman and Danny Sullivan
Published 2 Jan 2003

Search Form URL: http://www.canlearn.ca/English/find/ college&university/college.cfm Related Resources: Student Planner Occupations Databank Canada http://216.208.47.164/canlearn/ci_prof.nsf/frmOccsIntro? OpenForm Student Planner Learning Opportunities Databank Canada http://216.208.47.164/canlearn/ci_prog.nsf/frmProgsIntro? OpenForm College Opportunities Online (National Center for Education Statistics) http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool/ “IPEDS College Opportunities Online is your direct link to over 9,000 colleges and universities in the United States. If you are thinking about a large university, a small liberal arts college, a specialized college, a community college, a career or technical college, or a trade school, you can find them all here.” Search Form URL: http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool/Search.asp Related Resources: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System Peer Analysis System http://nces.ed.gov/ipedspas/ 210 The Invisible Web Directory of Resources for Foreign Language Programs http://www.cal.org/ericcll “This Web-based directory of resources for improving elementary foreign language programs provides information about and links to national associations, professional organizations, state foreign language offices, funders, publishers of language learning materials, centers, clearinghouses, instructional materials Web sites, online publications, databases, regional conferences, and listservs.”

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They are presented in the hope that they will at one and the same time address some of your viewing, research, education, and study needs and introduce you to the various types of visual images on the African-American experience that are contained in the Photographs and Prints Division of the Schomburg Center as well as other selected units of the Research Libraries of The New York Public Library.” Search Form URL: http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_ aa19/ 264 The Invisible Web Emergence of Advertising in America (EAA) 1850-1920 (The) http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/ “The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 (EAA) presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, provide a significant and informative perspective on the early evolution of this most ubiquitous feature of modern American business and culture.”

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The statistics for a few sports (Basketball, Baseball) are in Invisible Web databases. However, due to the timely nature of this information general search tools may miss regular updates. Search Form URL: http://www.ncaa.org/stats/ Travel Airline Coding Directory http://www.iata.org Obtain official airline codes for over 9,000 locations around the world. Search Form URL: http://www.iata.org/codes/index.asp Airline Flight and Fare Database from ITA Software http://www.itasoftware.com Hundreds of searching options exist to find airfares on the Internet. ITA Software is developing new airfare search technology and is licensing the technology to airlines and Internet travel services.

AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War
by Tom McNichol
Published 31 Aug 2006

Walter Mallory, a close associate and vice president of the Edison Storage Battery Company, recalled Edison’s dogged search for the ideal battery compounds: “I found Edison at a bench on which there were hundreds of little test cells that had been made up by his corps of chemists and experimenters. He was seated at this bench testing, figuring, and planning. I then learned that he had thus made over nine thousand experiments in trying to devise this new type of storage battery, but had not produced a single thing that promised to solve the question. In view of this immense amount of thought and labor, my sympathy got the better of my judgment, and I said: ‘Isn’t it a shame that with the tremendous amount of work you have done you haven’t been able to get any results?’

We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency
by Parmy Olson
Published 5 Jun 2012

“Am I going to hell?” Phelps-Roper suddenly looked concerned. “Well, hon, I only know what I’m hearing because you’re”—she raised her eyebrows—“Anonymous…and…you sound like a guy who’s headed to hell I’m just sayin.’” “Well in my lifetime I’ve performed over 9,000 sins,” Topiary said. “So…” “OH! And you keep track! What, you have a tally sheet?” “Yeah over 9,000 sins. I keep track.” Pakman was smiling to himself. Topiary glanced back at his laptop and for the next thirty seconds he observed a window in AnonOps IRC, where a handful of people were watching a live stream of the show on Pakman’s site. They were laughing.

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Brown had published a spoof statement from Anonymous on the left-wing political blog the Daily Kos on Saturday, February 5, a day before the HBGary Federal attack. The title was “Anonymous Concedes Defeat.” Rambling and comical, it claimed Barr had discovered that the true leaders of Anonymous were “Q and Justin Bieber.” He added: “Mr. Barr has successfully broken through our over 9,000 proxy field and into our entirely non-public and secret insurgent IRC lair, where he then smashed through our fire labyrinth with vigor, collected all the gold rings along the way, opened a 50 silver key chest to find Anon’s legendary hackers on steroids password.” It was a word-for-word quote from Topiary on IRC, and Topiary was flattered to see himself quoted.

Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web
by Cole Stryker
Published 14 Jun 2011

Oprah repeated the quote on her show, attributing the quote to a “known pedophile network” that was both organized and systematic. Meanwhile, Anonymous had itself a hearty lol. There are currently hundreds of videos on YouTube making fun of Oprah for the incident. Tricking a celebrity into acknowledging the existence of Anonymous was funny, but doing it under the pretense of a fake army of over nine thousand organized pedophiles was considered an epic win for the trolls. I often wonder if anyone told poor Oprah afterwards that she’d been had. Troll Heritage Perhaps the finest example of a pre-Internet troll is the late comedian and entertainer Andy Kaufman, who made a career out of subversive multilayered publicity stunts so convincing that some fans still doubt the authenticity of his 1984 death from kidney failure.

Dead Companies Walking
by Scott Fearon
Published 10 Nov 2014

Seeing Angelika that morning was a memorable surprise. Unfortunately for Angelika and everyone else at the company, though, Blockbuster (stock symbol: BBI) was in trouble at the time. It had had three straight money-losing quarters and was on its way to a fourth. It wasn’t hard to figure out why. The company was saddled with over nine thousand brick-and-mortar store locations and tens of thousands of employees, at the same time that Netflix—a web-based, ruthlessly efficient competitor with a fraction of its overhead—was pilfering millions of its customers. By the time I flew into Dallas and met with Angelika, the “bust” in the company’s name was starting to sound more and more like a foregone conclusion.

Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Gobal Crisis
by James Rickards
Published 10 Nov 2011

A relatively small redemption, say, $100 billion of Treasury notes, done in early 2008 when gold was about $1,000 per ounce, would have equaled 100 million ounces of gold, or about 2,840 metric tons. This amounts to 35 percent of the entire official gold supply of the United States. Indeed, a full redemption of all U.S. government securities by China would have wiped out the U.S. gold supply completely and left the United States with no gold and China the proud owner of over 9,000 metric tons. One can imagine Chinese naval vessels arriving in New York Harbor and a heavily armed U.S. Army convoy moving south down the Palisades Interstate Parkway from West Point to meet the vessels and load the gold on board for shipment to newly constructed vaults in Shanghai. No doubt such a scene would have been shocking to the American people, yet that imagined shock proves a larger point.

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While this example may seem extreme, it is exactly how most of the world monetary system worked until forty years ago. In 1950, the United States had official gold reserves of over 20,000 metric tons. Due to persistent large trade deficits, at the time with Europe and Japan rather than China, U.S. gold reserves had dropped to just over 9,000 metric tons when Nixon closed the gold window in 1971. That drop of 11,000 metric tons in the twenty-one years from 1950 to 1971 went mostly to a small number of export powerhouses. Over the same period, German gold reserves rose from zero to over 3,600 metric tons. Italy’s gold hoard went from 227 metric tons to over 2,500 metric tons.

The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay
by Guy Standing
Published 13 Jul 2016

It is symbolic that, on the edge of Geneva airport, a compound for private jets belonging to some of the world’s plutocrats abuts cramped temporary accommodation for a growing number of asylum seekers. On the other side of the Atlantic, in Washington DC, the Bretton Woods agencies have devoted considerable resources to their neo-liberal project. In 2015, the World Bank directly employed over 9,000 staff, a 50 per cent increase since 1995. It and the IMF have channelled huge amounts of money and technical assistance towards liberalising the global economy, through structural adjustment strategies in developing countries, shock therapy in ex-communist countries and supply-side economics in OECD countries.

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It is clouded (literally) in euphemisms, such as the term used to describe the units of work, HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks). Many pay a few pennies or cents apiece. You have to do a lot of HITs to make a little money! One survey in 2012 found that taskers for AMT in the USA had done on average over 9,000 tasks, and their Indian counterparts over 6,500.26 The average age was thirty-three. These figures are indicative of how minute the tasks typically are. Micro-taskers are probably the most exploited and most likely to self-exploit of all taskers. Tasks are usually allocated at a set rate per task, which is often extremely low.

The Cable
by Gillian Cookson
Published 19 Sep 2012

The cable had evolved, from something a few years earlier ‘regarded merely as a scientific experiment’, to being ‘now absolutely necessary for the purpose of our social system’. Moreover, it was promised to be ‘a highly remunerative investment’. Telcon could boast unparalleled experience in the field. The Gutta Percha Co. had in the previous decade made over 9,000 miles of insulated wire for the inner cores of submarine cables. Glass & Elliot, their main customer, had made and laid more than 6,500 miles of underwater cable. The merger produced a completely integrated cable-making and laying service. Some of Telcon’s confidence and authority, not to mention the transformed financial prospects, gave new strength to the Atlantic company, which was spurred to withdraw at last from its agreement with the British government.

Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health
by H. Gilbert Welch , Lisa M. Schwartz and Steven Woloshin
Published 18 Jan 2011

Three randomized trials completed in the 1990s showed that screening chest X-rays did not lead to a reduction in lung cancer deaths.10 In fact, in two of the studies, screening appeared to cause more deaths. There was more lung cancer surgery in the screened groups, and lung cancer surgery itself can cause death. The long-term follow-up of one of the studies—the Mayo Lung Study—demonstrated a persistent excess of lung cancer cases in the screened group.11 Slightly over nine thousand smokers were enrolled: half were screened every four months (using chest X-rays and sputum cytology); half were not. At the end of the six-year screening phase, 143 lung cancers were detected in the screened group as compared with 87 in the control group—a difference of 56 cancers. Because this was a randomized trial, that difference must be a consequence of screening.

The Fields Beneath: The History of One London Village
by Gillian Tindall
Published 1 Oct 2002

Two of the districts he mentions, Chelsea and Marylebone-with-St Pancras (as the two parishes were then styled), together with Knightsbridge, Hammer-smith and Paddington, were known as the Five Villages Outside the Bills of Mortality. It is known that the combined population of these villages increased from little over nine thousand in 1700 to one hundred and twenty-three thousand in 1801 – by which latter date they were well established as being de facto parts of London – but most of that increase probably took place during the last few decades of the eighteenth century. It has been stated that the population of St Pancras in 1776 was still only six hundred souls, and though this may be an underestimation it is known that the real population explosion only began at about this date.

Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage
by Douglas B. Laney
Published 4 Sep 2017

,” University of Rochester, 2013, www.cs.rochester.edu/u/kautz/papers/Sadilek-Brennan-Kautz-Silenzio_nEmesis_HCOMP-13.pdf. 19 “Sigma-Aldrich Corporation Uses Connotate to Fuel Competitive Pricing Program,” Connotate Press Release, 21 March 2012, www.connotate.com/press-releases/sigma-aldrich-corporation-uses-connotate-to-fuel-competitive-pricing-program/. 20 For further guidance, see Frank Buytendijk’s work on digital ethics, including “Digital Ethics, or How to Not Mess Up with Technology,” Gartner, www.gartner.com/document/2853620. Chapter 4 Analytics The Engine of Information Monetization Mobilink is Pakistan’s leading provider of voice and data services, based in Islamabad, with thirty-eight million subscribers communicating over nine thousand cell sites and 6,500 kilometers of fiber optic backbone. But as with most telecommunication providers, and many other kinds of businesses, its leadership is as concerned about customer churn as it is about gaining new customers. Faced with fierce competition in an exploding market, it was compelled to generate improved economic value from the data on its millions of subscribers and two hundred thousand retailers across ten thousand cities, towns, and villages.

A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
by Cal Newport
Published 2 Mar 2021

He remembered when he used to embrace the idea of inbox zero: the objective of reducing your email inbox back down to empty at the end of each day. At some point, as demands on his time from partners and listeners increased, he made inbox 100 his new goal. Then one day he noticed his unread messages had ballooned to over nine thousand. He was trying to run a business but had instead become a professional email manager. His solution was to hire a full-time executive assistant. As Flynn details in a podcast episode titled “9000 Unread Emails to Inbox Zero,” it took him and his assistant several weeks to work out a system for her to successfully manage his inbox.8 They produced a rule book that allowed her to handle almost every message on her own, bringing to Flynn’s attention only what required his input.

What We Need to Do Now: A Green Deal to Ensure a Habitable Earth
by Chris Goodall
Published 30 Jan 2020

Stadtwerke München also operates the city’s telecommunications network, which takes fibre broadband to the door of most of the city’s flats and houses, as well as public transport, electric vehicle charging and some housing. The profits of this company, several hundred million euros a year, all go to the city of Munich. It provides jobs for over 9,000 local people. POWER TO THE PEOPLE In the UK, to ensure that the energy transition improves the economic circumstances of people in less prosperous parts of the country, we will need to push for three crucial changes. Towns and cities should own and operate their own renewable energy resources as far as possible.

The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy
by Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz
Published 4 Nov 2016

Liu, “Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act Regulations: Disclosure, Opt-Out Rights, Medical Information Usage, and Consumer Information Disposal,” I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy 2, (2006): 715–735, at 720. 6 The Promise and Perils of Digital Libraries In 1731, Benjamin Franklin and a group of his colleagues founded the Library Company of Philadelphia, what many believe to be the first public library in America and perhaps even the world.1 Any member of the public could join the Company by buying “shares” that allowed one to use the library space and borrow any library book as often as it was available. Money from the sale of shares went toward the purchase of additional books for shareholders to enjoy. Today, such a model of sharing is well-accepted practice. There are over nine thousand public libraries in the United States alone in addition to university and private libraries. For decades and in some cases centuries, these institutions have purchased books in order to allow their members and patrons to browse and borrow them. For many, the library-lending model is a hallmark achievement for education and public access to knowledge.

The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
by Emily Levesque
Published 3 Aug 2020

The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, set near the geographic South Pole in the heart of Antarctica, is home to the South Pole Telescope, a ten-meter radio telescope that works at submillimeter wavelengths and serves as one element of the planet-wide radio interferometer used to image a black hole. If this sounds similar to the ALMA submillimeter observatory in the Atacama Desert, there’s good reason. The South Pole itself is actually a high-altitude desert: the South Pole Telescope is over nine thousand feet above sea level, and there’s very little precipitation at the site. Photos at the South Pole that look like snowstorms are usually capturing snow on the ground being blown around by high winds. The site can also feel even higher and more oxygen-deprived thanks to the earth’s atmosphere being thinner at the poles, and the “feels like” altitude is actually reported on an information board at the station that lists daily weather conditions.

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
by David Wallace-Wells
Published 19 Feb 2019

The list of dates cautions, on the one hand, against wildfire alarmism—against a sort of cartoonishly Californian environmental panic, in which all observers are all-consumed by the present instance of disaster. But all fires are not equal. Five of the twenty worst fires in California history hit the state in the fall of 2017, a year in which over nine thousand separate ones broke out, burning through more than 1,240,000 acres—nearly two thousand square miles made soot. That October, in Northern California, 172 fires broke out in just two days—devastation so cruel and sweeping that two different accounts were published in two different local newspapers of two different aging couples taking desperate cover in pools as the fires swallowed their homes.

Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
by Noa Tishby
Published 5 Apr 2021

In 2006, he initiated the Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Services. Each year, on the eve of Memorial Day, families who’ve lost loved ones both on the Israeli and on the Palestinian side come together to remember those loved ones and remind us that “war is not a predetermined fate, but only a human choice.” In 2019, the ceremony was attended by over nine thousand people, with only a few hundred people protesting against it. War is never going to be a final answer; only peace can achieve that. And as legendary statesmen, former Israeli prime minister, president, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shimon Peres used to say: “I have seen war and I have seen peace.

The Little Book of Hedge Funds
by Anthony Scaramucci
Published 30 Apr 2012

But for every stock-picking guru like David Einhorn or Dan Loeb there are dozens of other nameless hedge fund managers who are not quite as successful. Although the purpose of this book is not to uncover the secret formula for achieving alpha-like return, nor is it to explain in painstaking detail how to invest in hedge funds, this chapter will spend a bit of time showing you how investors and fund of hedge fund managers screen the over 9,000 hedge funds that are currently in operation. The core to this hedge fund investment process is: Manager Selection Portfolio Construction As hedge fund managers are like snowflakes with no two being alike, they all have very different pedigrees, philosophies, processes, strategies, track records, and personalities—all of which is important to assess when making an allocation decision.

Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
by Linda Tirado
Published 1 Oct 2014

When I was working in Ohio at a fast-food joint, I’d generally get about twenty-five hours in a week. That was paid at $7.50, making my weekly check $187.50. My husband, working forty hours at the same place, brought home $300. We made about $25,000 or so between us, working every week of the year. That’s a little over $9,000 above the poverty line for a family of two, or an extra $200 or so a week. We made ends meet, but barely. Not well enough to ever really feel comfortable or rest or take a day off without feeling guilty. And we were at the top of the bottom third of households that year, meaning that approximately one-third of the America population is living on the same sort of budget.

Misspent Youth
by Peter F. Hamilton
Published 1 Jan 2002

By 2036, when the project leaders announced it had reached fruition, and that they were ready for their first human subject, the dedicated Eurohealth Council budget for rejuvenation was larger than that of the European Space Agency. With such generous resources distributed among seventy universities and over nine thousand biomedical subcontractor companies, it was possible for the project to rejuvenate one European citizen every eighteen months. Before Jeff went into the suspension womb, the Brussels University Medical Centre had stopped him from taking the genoprotein treatments that kept his bones thick and strong, and maintained his glossy skin.

Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--And Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
by Christopher M. Palmer Md
Published 15 Nov 2022

While some people had one or the other, many had both. A similar example in the mental health field is that of depression and anxiety. The majority of people diagnosed with major depression also have anxiety, and most people diagnosed with anxiety disorders also have major depression. For example, in a survey of over nine thousand US households, 68 percent of people with major depression also met criteria for an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives, and several studies have found that one-half to two-thirds of adults with anxiety disorders also meet criteria for major depression.7 Antidepressants are commonly used to treat both depression and anxiety disorders, while anti-anxiety medications are commonly used to treat people with both anxiety disorders and depression.

Seriously Curious: The Facts and Figures That Turn Our World Upside Down
by Tom Standage
Published 27 Nov 2018

Twenty-seven states have no minimum age for marriage. Encouragingly, the practice has become less common in recent years. This reflects changing social norms, higher rates of school attendance for girls and a decline in marriage generally. Whereas 23,500 minors got married in 2000, that figure had dropped to a little over 9,000 by 2010. Yet even as recently as 2014 more than 57,000 minors aged 15 to 17 were married. They entered perhaps the most important legal contract of their lives while, in most cases, not being considered legal adults. This means they cannot file for divorce, sign rental leases or seek protection in a shelter if they are abused.

Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
by Ray Jayawardhana
Published 10 Dec 2013

For Halzen, the project’s completion in December 2010 was “a great relief.” “Now that IceCube is built, people forget how incredibly risky and challenging this undertaking was. I’ve made a list of all the points when I thought the project had failed,” he added. There was little room for error, with the biting cold, high altitude (of over 9,000 feet above sea level), and dreadful isolation exacerbating the risks. Once during construction a worker mistakenly grabbed a hose hanging from a drill tower, and was thrown on his back on the rock-hard ice when the hose pulled up. The victim had to be flown to New Zealand for treatment, and it took a few weeks for him to recover completely.

Just Keep Buying: Proven Ways to Save Money and Build Your Wealth
by Nick Maggiulli
Published 15 May 2022

His total investment amounted to over $30,000, meaning that every $1 move in GME’s share price was worth $300 to Darren. If the GME share price went up $1, Darren would make $300; if the GME share price went down $1, Darren would lose $300. Within 15 minutes GME climbed to $140 a share and Darren was up over $9,000. Text messages flooded the group chat praising Darren for his newly acquired riches while also speculating on where he would soon retire. But, as quickly as GME rose, it fell. Within an hour the price was below $111 and Darren’s texts showed increasing levels of worry. He put in a limit order to sell at $111 in hopes of getting his investment back, but it was too late.

Nomad Citizenship: Free-Market Communism and the Slow-Motion General Strike
by Eugene W. Holland
Published 1 Jan 2009

On the basis of this astonishing success, NASA has renewed and extended the project, with clickworkers now mapping craters and other surface features on asteroids as well as Mars.89 DP has had similar success with similar methods: started in 2000 to as­ sist Project Gutenberg’s aim of “preserving history one page at a time” by creating an immense online library of all works not subject to copyright restrictions, DP mobilizes some fourteen hundred volunteer proofread­ ers per week (on average) to check and recheck scanned pages of books against digital photographs of the original text. While most proofreaders check just a few pages, some have done literally tens of thousands.90 The result is a total of over nine thousand proofread digitized volumes sub­ mitted to Project Gutenberg for online preservation in the past six years. Like NASA, with its volunteer clickworkers, and Project Gutenberg, with its DPs, FOSS mobilizes thousands of Internet-mediated partici­ pants—participants who, in this case, create, debug, and improve opensource software programs, including, but not limited to, the well-known and widely used GNU-Linux operating system.

Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
by Duncan J. Watts
Published 1 Feb 2003

When the epidemic was detected in mid-February, only three weeks after the first cases had occurred, forty-three farms had already been affected. That might seem like a lot of farms, but the epidemic was still in the initial, slow-growth phase. By September, the number of farms suspected of infection had grown to over nine thousand, despite the preventative slaughter of nearly 4 million sheep and cattle. Eventually, however, even the most out-of-control epidemics come to an end, if for no other reason than they burn themselves out. Because there are only so many people (or in the case of foot-and-mouth disease, animals) who can be infected, susceptible targets become harder and harder to find, and the trajectory of the disease flattens off again.

The Ultimate Engineer: The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low
by Richard Jurek
Published 2 Dec 2019

The firms selected would go on to spend considerably more than they were paid: Convair spent over $1 million; General Electric, over $2 million; and the Martin Company, which sent in the most elaborate and detailed study of the three, put over three hundred people on the project for six months, spending over $3 million on the data and designs for their feasibility recommendations. Martin provided over a dozen spacecraft configuration models and a final report of over nine thousand pages. According to Chariots for Apollo, the Martin proposal focused on “versatility, flexibility, safety margins, and growth,” and it was the only study to detail “the progression of steps from a lunar orbiting mission to a lunar landing.” Despite Martin’s extra effort, the overall goal of the feasibility studies, and the emphasis of the mandate, was still a circumlunar and not a lunar landing mission.

A People’s History of Computing in the United States
by Joy Lisi Rankin

In 1967, eigh­ teen Minnesota school districts formed a unique organ­ ization known as TIES (Total Information for Educational Systems) as a cooperative venture to provide educational and administrative computing to their students and teachers.4 The TIES districts had been inspired by a 1965–1966 computing experiment at University High School (UHigh) in Minneapolis. The success of TIES propelled the creation of MECC in 1973.5 During 1974–1975, MECC’s statewide time-­sharing system served 84 ­percent of Minnesota’s public school students.6 By 1978, students played OREGON, their beloved game The Oregon Trail, on the MECC network over nine thousand times per month.7 This chapter contends that TIES and MECC users engaged in social and creative computing practices that now feature prominently in con­temporary American digital culture, including networked gaming, social networking sites, and user-­generated content. Analyzing the growth of TIES and MECC illuminates the social and technical practices of networked computing that w ­ ere distinctive to the networks’ origins within education during the 1960s.

A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market
by John Allen Paulos
Published 1 Jan 2003

Next year you’ll have $1,100, the year after that $1,210, then $1,331, and so on. (Compounding is discussed further in chapter 5.) The first digit of your account balance remains a “1” for a long time. When your account grows to over $2,000, the first digit will remain a “2” for a shorter period. And when your deposit finally grows to over $9,000, the 10 percent growth will result in more than $10,000 in your account the following year and a long return to “1” as the first digit. If you record your account balance each year for many years, these numbers will thus obey Benford’s Law. The law is also “scale-invariant” in that the dimensions of the numbers don’t matter.

Great American Railroad Journeys
by Michael Portillo
Published 26 Jan 2017

But rogues there undoubtedly were. In the rush to rebuild the south, Republican-controlled state governments had spent on a grand scale, incurring huge debts. The money was aimed at inducing corporate America to renew and extend the railroads, and it clearly worked: by 1877, the south’s total railroad mileage had gone from just over 9,000 to almost 14,000 miles (14,500 km to 22,500 km). Yet, it was an industry largely run by northern, often Republican, tycoons. In 1870, they owned 21 per cent of the network; within two decades the figure was 88 per cent. So frenzied was this dash-for-track that, when the voters of Arkansas were asked to decide on some railroad plans, detail was superfluous.

Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture
by Justin McGuirk
Published 15 Feb 2014

He had recently completed the campus for the Universidad Central de Venezuela, one of the most gracious modernist campuses in the world. And now, with funding from the Banco Obrero, he had the chance to build his tour de force. He conceived of 23 de Enero as thirty-eight superbloques supplemented by dozens of medium-sized blocks, providing over 9,000 units. These were to be scattered evenly across a terraced hillside to the west of Caracas, with acres of green space in between. The very picture of modernist utopia, this was paternalistic politics as spectacle. However, in the confusion after the overthrow of Jiménez, and before it was even completed, 23 was squatted by an estimated 4,000 families.

Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
by Tim Marshall
Published 8 Mar 2018

In the Saddam era, Iraq was dominated by the minority Sunni population, but after he was overthrown Shia groups became more powerful; militias on both sides have carried out multiple bombings and shootings to further their political aims. Iraq suffers from more terrorist attacks than any other country – nearly 3,000 incidents in 2016, with over 9,000 dead – Islamic State (IS) being responsible for the worst of them. Having originated in Iraq following the 2003 US invasion, IS became one of the most notorious and widespread terror organizations, extending its presence across the Middle East, including Syria, Libya, Yemen and Egypt. Most governments in the region are aware that IS could filter into and destabilize other areas with its extremist views and violent activities, and are keen to prevent that happening.

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
by Samuel R. Delany
Published 1 Jan 1984

The stones were almost identical to the ones she was wearing – and though I’d seen that particular fountain hundreds of times before, I’d just never made the connection. ‘Pardon?’ ‘Sorry. I was just talking to Ynn.’ She plunged the spit, and swivelled it, making foam along the brim. ‘She says that in the last half hour the arrivals have gone from just under a thousand to over nine thousand people outside; they’re backed up for almost a kilometre. About two thousand have arrived in the last ten minutes alone – ’ ‘Nine thousand?’ ‘Another two thousand are expected within the next few minutes.’ She raised the spit’s business end and shook down droplets on the water. ‘I have to go hang this up somewhere and set food on another free one, now, don’t I?’

The Divided Nation: A History of Germany, 1918-1990
by Mary Fulbrook
Published 14 Oct 1991

Killings started here in 1942; gradually techniques were improved, with the construction of specially designed gas chambers and crematoria, the largest of which, it was boasted, could 'process' up to three thousand people a day, although individual transports were never quite that large. When all the gas chambers and crematoria were in operation it was possible to kill over nine thousand people within twenty-four hours a figure achieved one day in the summer of 1944. 6 'Selections' of those fit to work, and those designed to go straight to the gas chambers, initially took place on the main Auschwitz station, and then, when the side line had been constructed, on the long platform or 'ramp' in Auschwitz-Birkenau itself.

The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands
by Eric Topol
Published 6 Jan 2015

But this remains a rarity. In fact, in 2014, only two million patients in the United States were thought to have access to their notes about their treatment.11 The reason why is because paternalism has closed the minds of physicians and consumers alike. According to a Harris poll of nearly four thousand doctors and over nine thousand consumers, only 31 percent of physicians believe their patients should have full access to their notes.3,4 Correspondingly, only 36 percent of consumers reported full access to their records even though 84 percent believe it is their right to have it.12 Interestingly, over 40 percent of consumers surveyed were willing to switch doctors in order to gain full access to their records.

Straphanger
by Taras Grescoe
Published 8 Sep 2011

“Back in the seventies,” he told me, “we took over the assets of Penn Central and Reading Railroads, which were basically bankrupt railroads that didn’t invest a lot in their passenger services. Last month I had to deal with four catenary failures—these overhead wires that were installed back in the thirties, they just wore out and broke. We’ve also got a workforce of over nine thousand, and we have to deal with seventeen separate unions.” But SEPTA’s main problem, according to Casey, is money. “Our primary funding mechanism is the state sales tax. It covers about half our operating expenses, and we get a much smaller operating subsidy from the federal government and the city.

A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
Published 5 May 2003

They found that this single small sample contained between 4,000 and 5,000 separate bacterial species, more than in the whole of Bergey's Manual. They then traveled to a coastal location a few miles away, scooped up another gram of earth, and found that it contained 4,000 to 5,000 other species. As Edward O. Wilson observes: “If over 9,000 microbial types exist in two pinches of substrate from two localities in Norway, how many more await discovery in other, radically different habitats?” Well, according to one estimate, it could be as high as 400 million. We don't look in the right places. In The Diversity of Life, Wilson describes how one botanist spent a few days tramping around ten hectares of jungle in Borneo and discovered a thousand new species of flowering plant—more than are found in the whole of North America.

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Bodanis, The Secret House, p. 16. 27 “to quote the man who did the measuring . . .” New Scientist, “Bugs Bite Back,” February 17, 2001, p. 48. 28 “These mites have been with us since time immemorial . . .” Bodanis, The Secret House, p. 15. 29 “Your sample will also contain perhaps a million plump yeasts . . .” National Geographic, “Bacteria,” August 1993, p. 39. 30 “If over 9,000 microbial types exist . . .” Wilson, The Diversity of Life, p. 144. 31 “it could be as high as 400 million.” Tudge, The Variety of Life, p. 8. 32 “discovered a thousand new species of flowering plant . . .” Wilson, The Diversity of Life, p. 197. 33 “tropical rain forests cover only about 6 percent . . .”

The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth
by Jeremy Rifkin
Published 9 Sep 2019

The response I often get is silence, because the only other alternative is to remain trapped in a dying, carbon-based Second Industrial Revolution economy, whose aggregate efficiencies and productivity peaked decades ago and which is now taking the world into the sixth extinction event. What, then, is holding us up? Connecting the Dots Over 9,000 cities and local governments have come together in the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy to create sustainable communities and address climate change.5 These cities can boast of introducing scores of high-visibility green “pilot projects,” including solar and wind installations, electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel-cell buses, LEED-certified buildings, recycling programs, etc.

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
by Annalee Newitz
Published 2 Feb 2021

But if we’ve learned anything from history, we know the death of a few cities doesn’t mean the world will collapse into dystopia. We will survive the urban end times, just like so many people did when they abandoned Çatalhöyük, Pompeii, Angkor, and Cahokia. The question is, what will we do next? Humans have been building cities for over 9,000 years, but it’s only in the past few decades that the majority of us have lived in urban areas. With so many people flocking to our modern-day versions of Cahokia, cities seem inevitable—but they aren’t. After abandoning our future cities, some people may return to small-town life, like the people of Angkor and Çatalhöyük did.

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School
by Alexandra Robbins
Published 31 Mar 2009

A majority of them are in AP Gov. They could never see me hanging out with them,” Blue said. “I’m at a point in my life where I’m trying desperately to find my place in the world, you know?” “Yes. But how can you find your place if you don’t at least peek at other places?” “You’re making it sound like I haven’t tried over nine thousand things. Ever since I was in middle school, I’ve gone from popular jock to anime freak to hardcore skater to overachiever to computer builder and all back again,” Blue said. But he was willing to try once more. DANIELLE, ILLINOIS | THE LONER Danielle was doing homework in the dining room when her mother returned home from parent-teacher conferences.

Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System
by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier
Published 29 Mar 2017

Without a role to play in meeting the US’s Cold War strategic interests, it sought to reinvent itself as a humanitarian organization. The camp made this possible, allowing the organization to dramatically expand its staff numbers and budget through its growing and visible role in both emergency assistance and long-term camp management. UNHCR staff numbers grew from 500 to over 9,000 between 1950 and 2016. Camps provided jobs: just not for refugees. While the refugee regime has not been entirely static over the last several decades, it has certainly been path-dependent, and today’s system still resembles that created for the particular circumstances of post-war Europe, albeit in a radically different world.

The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
by Guy Standing
Published 27 Feb 2011

Most hold low-paying, part-time or short-term contract jobs. According to sociology professor Kensuke Suzuki, ‘These are men who feel disenfranchised in their own society. They are looking for someone to blame, and foreigners are the most obvious target’ (Fackler, 2010). The largest group, with over 9,000 members in 2010, is called Zaitokukai, an abbreviation for its full cumbersome name – Citizens Who Will Not Forgive Special Privileges for Koreans in Japan. Such groups have been stepping up hostile demonstrations against migrants and say they model themselves on the US Tea Party. Unless the commodification of politics is checked, we will see a further thinning of democratic involvement, particularly on the part of the progressive part of the precariat.

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by Laurie Garrett
Published 31 Oct 1994

The agency’s infectious disease prevention and control budget had by 1980 declined 16 percent from 1969–76.5 Given the reported mortality statistics, this resource shift seemed wholly appropriate. Sexually transmitted diseases had declined dramatically all over the industrialized world since the discovery of antibiotic treatments for syphilis and gonorrhea. In the 1920s over 9,000 Americans died each year of syphilis, and 60,000 children were born infected with the spirochete. In 1940, just before the introduction of antibiotics, 13,000 Americans died of syphilis. But by 1949, with the availability of antibiotic treatments, fewer than 6,000 Americans died of syphilis, and all signs pointed toward a continuing decline as physicians improved their use of the drugs and more infected people sought treatment.

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National Institutes of Health panel concluded in 1977.14 The same week the CDC reported the Philippines link, it also reported on a Georgia man suffering from a new type of gonorrhea that was resistant to the two other most commonly used treatments for the disease: spectinomycin and ampicillin. The CDC scoured over 9,000 gonorrhea isolates collected nationwide prior to 1976 and found no evidence of the spectinomycin-resistant strain in the United States prior to February 1977. It had existed in Denmark, however, where two cases were discovered in 1976. By May 1977, the penicillin-resistant PPNG strain had been spotted in seventeen countries, and all the North American and European cases traced back to either the Philippines or West Africa.

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Ho Wang Lee of Korea University Medical School in Seoul to discover the virus, using electron microscopes to spot the round microbes that were neatly stacked in rows along the epithelial lining of Apodemus lungs.6 The natural territory of A. agrarius included large parts of Japan, Korea, northeastern China, and southeastern and central Russia. In South Korea between 1955 and 1977, over 9,000 cases of Hantaan were documented; 6.5 percent were fatal. Far more cases were suspected, but were thought to have escaped diagnosis because of their similarity to milder, common ailments, such as influenza. During the 1970s eleven other forms of hantaviruses were discovered in Eastern Europe and Asia, all linked to usually mild kidney diseases with fatality rates ranging from 10 down to 0.1 percent of all infected people.

Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
by William Blum
Published 31 Mar 2002

In training exercises, DU is dropped on the island of San Clemente off the California coast, and perhaps only on some future day will we realize what the effects were of what drifted across to the mainland by air and sea. That island is at least uninhabited, unlike the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico, where over 9,000 American citizens dwell They've had to endure almost 60 years of aerial target practice and war games, including the dropping of napalm, and in recent years, depleted uranium shells. Puerto Rican activists claim that Vieques has become contaminated with radioactivity, which contributes to a cancer rate among the island's inhabitants that is twice the national average.

Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death From the ER
by Pamela Grim
Published 1 Jan 2000

The bullet had entered the epigastric area, the midpoint of the belly, and exited out the right flank, well away from the spinal cord. A fixable injury. But it didn't take us long to figure out why the man had been shot. The nurse asked him: “How old are you?” “Look, don't waste my time asking a bunch of stupid questions,” the guy said. We were searching his pants for his driver's license and came up with over $9,000 in hundred-dollar bills stashed in his coat pocket. “Do you have any health problems?” the nurse asked. “No, I don't have any goddamn health problems.” The surgical residents started to arrive. The first surgeon to walk in was the second-year resident. He looked at the guy and said, “Who shot you?”

The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
by Blake J. Harris
Published 19 Feb 2019

Luckey assumed that this was just a quirky ask from a hardcore gaming crowd. But then it happened again two days later, at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles. Then again at Gamescom in Germany (August 15) and at Unity’s Unite event Amsterdam (August 22). Throughout the month, the excitement for Oculus continued—eventually surpassing $2 million on Kickstarter with pledges from over nine thousand supporters (including heavy hitters like Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson, who backed the guys to the tune of $10,000). On the heels of that momentum, Meteor Entertainment and Adhesive Games—whose almost complete mech shooter Hawken was headed to PCs in December—announced that they’d be porting an iteration of the game to work with the Rift.1 Now, in addition to Doom 3 BFG, there’d be another game ready to go when the headsets shipped in December.

Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond
by Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar
Published 19 Oct 2017

Venture capital investors (VCs) often invest in ideas and development teams, having faith they will work their way toward success. Ethereum democratized that process beyond VCs. For perspective on the price of ether in this crowdsale, consider that at the start of April 2017, ether was worth $50 per unit, implying returns over 160x in under three years.19 Just over 9,000 people bought ether during the presale, placing the average initial investment at $2,000, which has since grown to over $320,000.20 According to the Ethereum white paper, the profits from this sale would be “used entirely to pay salaries and bounties to developers, and invested into various for-profit and non-profit projects in the Ethereum and cryptocurrency ecosystem.”

Permanent Record
by Edward Snowden
Published 16 Sep 2019

I had to restrain myself from keying in Lindsay’s number and saying, from across the floor, “I’m calling from a fridge.” Beyond that, the salesperson continued, the fridge’s computer kept track of internal temperature, and, through scanning barcodes, the freshness of your food. It also provided nutritional information and suggested recipes. I think the price was over $9,000. “Delivery included,” the salesperson said. I remember driving home in a confused silence. This wasn’t quite the stunning moonshot tech-future we’d been promised. I was convinced the only reason that thing was Internet-equipped was so that it could report back to its manufacturer about its owner’s usage and about any other household data that was obtainable.

K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts
Published 13 Oct 2009

The Americans hired 180 porters to get their gear to base camp; the Italians would end up employing 600, and the total baggage those native porters hauled amounted to sixteen tons of food and gear. The budget for Houston’s team in 1953 was exactly $30,958.32 (the 1938 expedition had cost only a little over $9,000); although Desio never discloses the final figure, the cost of the Italian expedition was well in excess of 70 million lire, or about $108,000 in 1954 currency. That figure calculates out to $821,000 in today’s dollars—an astronomical sum, any way you look at it. The most expensive expedition I ever went on was Jim Whittaker’s International Peace Climb of Everest in 1990, because we Americans footed the bill not only for ourselves but for the Russian and Chinese climbers as well.

Culture & Empire: Digital Revolution
by Pieter Hintjens
Published 11 Mar 2013

However, what it really signified was the escalation of the war between the Spider and Para-state, and the digital revolution. Anonymous, worthy of a book in themselves, had sharpened its teeth on Scientology, no easy target. In 2008 there were maybe half a million Scientologists in the world (claims varied from 100,000 to an unlikely 20 million). Then in February, over 9,000 protestors came out onto the streets and confronted this organization. By 2013, the largest pro-Scientology events -- such as in Clearwater, FL in November 2013 -- had no more than 2,000 or 3,000 people. And this demolition of Scientology, one of the most powerful and feared cults, cost nothing, no private investigators, no weapons, no violence, and indeed very little confrontation.

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman
Published 17 Jul 2017

And now, with a host of new wartime projects under way and hundreds of new faces streaming through the office, including many in military uniforms, the thirteen stories on the Hudson’s edge felt especially chaotic. Even as several hundred Labs employees departed for active-duty service in the wake of Pearl Harbor, Bell’s in-house workforce swelled: 4,600 employees became over 9,000 in only a matter of a few years. More than 1,000 research projects were launched, each one a small piece of the war machine. The tempo picked up accordingly; “a six-day workweek became the norm,” Gertner writes. Bell Labs wasn’t alone in feeling the pressures of the war. Conflict overseas placed crushing new demands on much of the nation’s scientific elite and the institutions that housed them.

Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex
by Rupert Darwall
Published 2 Oct 2017

Yet the amount of energy involved in a single lightning flash might come as a surprise—comparable to that used to keep five 100-watt light bulbs alight for one month but concentrated into a mere 300 milliseconds or less.50 The explosive nature of a lightning flash gives a clue to the problem of storing electricity: If you try to stuff a force into a small space (i.e., store it), the more tension it creates, the greater the costs, and the higher the danger. In due course, further stuffing becomes a physical impossibility: There is a sudden explosive release of energy. The channel temperature in a lightning flash reaches well over 9,000°C (16,200°F). You can’t make a bucket and fill it up with electrons; if you did, it would be a bomb, not a battery. Storing electricity therefore requires converting it into other forms of energy: as chemical energy in batteries or as potential energy in pumped-storage hydro systems, to be reconverted the moment it is needed, involving energy losses on the way in and the way out.

The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
by Orly Lobel
Published 17 Oct 2022

Even earlier, Mozilla began a project to accelerate the collection of languages for artificial intelligence purposes from all over the world, with a focus on including more accents and languages and increasing accuracy, regardless of gender or age. Mozilla created the Common Voice data set as part of this effort, which by 2021 had recorded over 9,000 hours of voice data in sixty languages.24 Much like Wikipedia, the project is crowdsourced and open-source. People are free to use the program, and contributors around the world can add their voices, enabling the open-source data set to grow through collective effort. I contributed my voice, reading out five sentences prompted on the site, the first one being, “Shakhter Karagandy will also play in the Kazakhstan Cup and the Europa Conference League.”

The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
by Craig Nelson
Published 25 Mar 2014

Mike had another party interested in its delay, for when he learned it was set for three days before the November presidential election pitting Adlai Stevenson against Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman sent word to the AEC “that the President would not change the date, but he would certainly be pleased if technical reasons cause a postponement.” All of these concerns were completely ignored as Mike became a physical manifestation of Cold War hysteria. By October 1952, over nine thousand enlisted men and two thousand civilians were in tents or on ships in the Eniwetok vicinity, supported by eighty aircraft and a full navy task force of ships. Five hundred scientific bases were on thirty islands; the control room was on Estes atoll, while the core scientists and technicians were on Parry.

Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
by Andrew W. Lo
Published 3 Apr 2017

If the hedge fund’s bet goes wrong—maybe the Apricard technology has a flaw that allows hackers to steal millions of credit card numbers—and Apricot suffers a 10 percent loss while BlueBerry benefits from its competitor’s woes and enjoys a 10 percent gain, the hedge fund will lose $6 million, wiping out 60 percent of the fund. The power of leverage and short selling cuts both ways. There are currently over nine thousand hedge funds worldwide, managing more than $2 trillion in assets, and an unknown number of hedge fund–like entities at proprietary trading desks and the like. In fact, the hedge fund industry is more like twenty to thirty cottage industries, each with its own particular specialty. The mix of this industry clearly is adaptive to market conditions: new funds are started to take advantage of emerging opportunities from one strategy, while other funds close down after experiencing losses from another strategy.

Why the Allies Won
by Richard Overy
Published 29 Feb 2012

In December 1941 it was agreed to hold common strategic discussions in a Combined Chiefs-of-Staff Committee. An intricate network of bodies for sharing intelligence and technical information and for pooling industrial and shipping resources was established during 1942. By the end of that year there were over nine thousand British representatives in Washington, reproducing there the pattern of Whitehall deliberations, with which the American administration was much less familiar. This produced a good deal of friction, since British officials were generally much better briefed, and much more versed in detailed committee work.

Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence
by Robert Bryce
Published 16 Mar 2011

The only sure relief will come through improved fuel efficiency.”5 The Times’s editorial board may be convinced, but there’s precious little evidence to prove that fact. History shows that as the U.S. economy has grown more energy-efficient, energy consumption has continued climbing. In 1980, the U.S. was using about 15,000 Btus per dollar of GDP. By 2004, the energy intensity of the U.S. economy had improved dramatically so that just over 9,000 Btus were required for each dollar of GDP.6 The EIA expects those efficiency gains to con- The Impossibility of Independence 139 Figure 7 Energy Intensity of the U.S. Economy, 1950–2010 The line on the top left shows that the amount of energy needed to produce goods and services has been on a steady downward trend.

A People's History of Poverty in America
by Stephen Pimpare
Published 11 Nov 2008

The society met with success in getting a few poor prisoners released each year. They would go on to found a small health clinic (1790), a free soup house (1802), and delivered food during the yellow fever epidemic of 1803, but their emphasis was on imprisoned debtors, where they counted their successes by the quarts of soup provided (over 9,000 in 1806 to 183 debtors and 21,000 quarts in 1811 to 536—not quite a quart a day to the confined). To quote Mike Millius again, it was “not enough to live on, but a little too much to die.” The society only turned its attention away after 1817, when the city abolished imprisonment for debts under $25 (they would not entirely eliminate debtor’s prison until 1831), thus freeing most of the poor, when it sent its soup more widely into the city, and thereafter broadened its purview to other efforts at reform, from “the liquor problem,” to cleaning chimneys, to resuscitating drowning victims. 67 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812 (New York: Knopf, 1990), 267.

Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons From the World’s Limits
by Richard Davies
Published 4 Sep 2019

Shoppers options widened: quotas on goods like cigarettes and chickens were abolished and Chile opened its doors to trade, cutting import taxes from 90 per cent to 10 per cent so that products from the US, Germany and Japan suddenly became affordable. (Imports of cameras duly jumped by 200 per cent, radios by 870 per cent and televisions by over 9,000 per cent.) Growth was much worse than expected though: the economy expanded by a little under 3 per cent, better than under Allende but behind the country’s long-run average. The first decade of Chicago-school economics was capped by an acute slump: when a financial crisis swept Latin America in 1982 it was Chile, run by these superstar economists, that fared worst.

The Art of SQL
by Stephane Faroult and Peter Robson
Published 2 Mar 2006

Now I shall present an example demonstrating the dangers of hiding SQL code away inside a user-written function. Consider a table flights that describes commercial flights, with columns for flight number, departure time, arrival time, and the usual three-letter IATA[*] codes for airports. The translation of those codes (over 9,000 of them) is stored in a reference table that contains the name of the city (or of the particular airport when there are several located in one city), and of course the name of the country, and so on. Quite obviously any display of flight information should include the name of the destination city airport rather than the rather austere IATA code.

A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
by Lawrence G. Mcdonald and Patrick Robinson
Published 21 Jul 2009

It offers a diatribe of definitions and similes—unethical, amoral, immoral, unprincipled, indefensible, unforgivable, wrong, unscrupulous, underhanded, dishonorable, excessive, unreasonable, unwarranted, uncalled for, unfair, inordinate, immoderate, undue, inexcusable, unnecessary. Dick and Joe lived like a couple of potentates, and for them the occasional $40 million was very necessary. Fuld lived in an enormous Greenwich mansion, over 9,000 square feet, valued at $10 million. He had four other homes, including a mansion on Jupiter Island, one of Florida’s garrisons of the big muckety-mucks in Hobe Sound, thirty miles north of Palm Beach. Dick picked it up five years previously for $13.75 million. He also owned a vast $21 million Park Avenue apartment with three wood-burning fireplaces, and a spectacular ski chalet near Sun Valley, Idaho.

No Slack: The Financial Lives of Low-Income Americans
by Michael S. Barr
Published 20 Mar 2012

Demographic Characteristics of Sample, by Bankruptcy Filing a (continued ) Percent unless otherwise noted Characteristic Mean household annual income (dollars) Median household annual income (dollars) Living below poverty lineb Sample size All Ever declared Declared but not recently Declared in last twelve months Never declared 28,435 (2,118) 34,023 (3,457) 36,341 (4,441) 27,124 (3,753) 27,358 (1,136) 20,000 28,000 27,064 30,000 18,000 33.2 (2.4) 938 25.0 (3.7) 141 24.6 (4.3) 105 26.2 (7.2) 37 34.7 (1.7) 794 Source: Detroit Area Household Financial Services study. a. Standard errors are in parentheses. b. Poverty guidelines come from the Department of Health and Human Services (http://aspe.hhs.gov/ poverty/04poverty.shtml). $855, monthly household income is $1,250 less, and annual household income is a little over $9,000 less. Median annual household income is $15,000 among those who would benefit, $5,000 less than the median among those who would not. Poverty rates, however, are roughly the same in both groups. Assets and Debts Overall, respondent households have low assets relative to average American households (see table 8-3).

To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Global Diaspora, 1750-2010
by T M Devine
Published 25 Aug 2011

American consumers became increasingly sophisticated purchasers as their material standards rose in the wake of expanding markets in Europe for colonial sugar, tobacco, timber, cotton, rice and indigo. Some sense of the new consumerism comes from the New York press. In the 1720s merchants there described only fifteen different manufactured goods in newspaper articles. By the 1770s they were selling over 9,000 different imported items, many of which had highly specific descriptions. Expanding custom in the tobacco colonies, therefore, increasingly meant that Scottish factors and storekeepers had to offer the widest possible range of goods to satisfy the new demands. That in turn meant that their Glasgow principals had to create secure lines of supply not just for tobacco but for the vast array of consumer goods needed across the Atlantic.

Dr. Johnson's London: Coffee-Houses and Climbing Boys, Medicine, Toothpaste and Gin, Poverty and Press-Gangs, Freakshows and Female Education
by Liza Picard
Published 1 Jan 2000

Henry Fielding, in his Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbery, published in 1751, deplored the remissness with which [the previous legislation] had been executed … that poison called gin is the principal sustenance (if so it may be called) of more than 100,000 People in this metropolis … the intoxicating Draught itself disqualifies them from using any honest means to acquire it, at the same time that it removes all sense of fear and shame and emboldens them to commit every wicked and dangerous Enterprise … Should the drinking this poison be continued at its present height during the next twenty years there will by that time be very few of the common people left to drink it. By now it was everywhere. It was made and sold – illegally – in prisons and workhouses and hospitals. Weavers sold it in Spitalfields, and parish nurses gave it to the pauper children in their care to keep them quiet, which it did, permanently. Over 9,000 children died of gin, in 1751. The rich even began to worry about the knock-on effect on themselves. As The Ladies’ Magazine of July 1750 put it, ‘an immoderate use of strong liquors imbecillitates2 the human body … the preservation of the industrious labourer depends on his not drinking spirituous liquors: on his preservation, that of the Middling people, and on them the support of the wealthy’.

Stocks for the Long Run, 4th Edition: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long Term Investment Strategies
by Jeremy J. Siegel
Published 18 Dec 2007

From the intraday high of 11,750 reached on January 14, 2000, through the October 10, 2002, low, the Dow Industrials fell nearly 39 percent, a CHAPTER 13 When World Events Impact Financial Markets 235 decline far less than the S&P 500 Index that was bloated by overpriced technology stocks. The market subsequently rallied to over 9,000, but anxiety about a second U.S. operation in Iraq sent the stock back down to 7,524 five months later on March 11, 2003, just days before the invasion. But as it responded 12 years earlier when the Gulf War started, the market rallied on news of the invasion and continued to rise despite the growing insurgency in Iraq that made the war particularly unpopular.

Stocks for the Long Run 5/E: the Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long-Term Investment Strategies
by Jeremy Siegel
Published 7 Jan 2014

A sluggish economy, combined with the accounting scandals of Enron, WorldCom, and others, sent stocks into another dive that didn’t end until October 10, 2002, when the Dow hit an intraday low of 7,197. From the intraday high of 11,750 reached on January 14, 2000, through the low of October 10, 2002, the Dow Industrials fell nearly 39 percent, a decline far less than the S&P 500 Index that was bloated by overpriced technology stocks. The market subsequently rallied to over 9,000, but anxiety about a second U.S. operation in Iraq sent stocks back down to 7,524 five months later on March 11, 2003, just days before the invasion. But as it responded 12 years earlier when the Gulf War started, the market rallied on news of the invasion and continued to rise despite the growing insurgency in Iraq that made the war particularly unpopular.

Air Crashes and Miracle Landings: 60 Narratives
by Christopher Bartlett
Published 11 Apr 2010

[23:58] Lima ATC: Speed of 220 over the ground, speed reducing slightly. [24:05] Captain: Shit! We will stall now… [24:07] Mechanical voice alert: SINK RATE! SINK RATE! SINK RATE! SINK RATE! [Sink rate alarm also sounds] They managed to avoid stalling and climbed with the barometric altimeters showing over 9,000 ft. They thought they had leveled out at Flight Level 100 (10,000 ft). The flight data recorder (FDR) later showed that (according to the radio-altimeter) they had only climbed to 2,400 ft then re-descended to 1,300 ft and had finally gone no higher than 4,000 ft. Meanwhile, by noting their different locations with his radar that could independently determine distance and direction (but not height) the air traffic controller had calculated their groundspeed to be 200 knots when the pilots’ instruments were showing their airspeed to be 370 knots.

Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
by Mark Pendergrast
Published 2 Jan 2000

Melikian, two army mechanical engineers, introduced the Kwik Kafe vending machine that dispensed hot instant coffee into a paper cup in five seconds. Rudd Melikian Inc. sold three hundred machines the first year. Other companies soon went into competition with them. By the end of 1951 there were over 9,000 coffee vending machines in the United States, and by the middle of the decade over 60,000. Invention of the Coffee Break The vending machine helped institutionalize that most venerated American tradition, the coffee break. The phrase was the 1952 invention of the Pan American Coffee Bureau.

The Old Patagonian Express
by Paul Theroux
Published 23 Sep 1979

'God be with you.' 15 THE AUTOFERRO TO GUAYAQUIL In Central America and Colombia I had met a number of people, who were travelling north, who told me of the excitements of the Guayaquil and Quito Railway - the 'G and Q', or 'the Good and Quick', as it is known to those who have not ridden on it. It had taken thirty-seven years to build (it was finished in Paul Theroux The Old Patagonian Express, By Train Through the Americas Page 137 1908), although it was less than 300 miles long. From an altitude of over 9,000 feet at Quito, the Auto ferro - a converted bus welded to a railway undercarriage - rises another 3,000 feet at Urbina and then drops down a series of confined switchbacks and loops (the Devil's Nose double zig-zag! the Alausi Loop!) to sea-level at the steamy southern port of Guayaquil. I had no difficulty getting information about it; the station was nearby, service was frequent and a ticket cost no more than a few dollars.

An Empire of Wealth: Rise of American Economy Power 1607-2000
by John Steele Gordon
Published 12 Oct 2009

The minting of gold coins by the federal government increased, as did the issuance of banknotes based on gold reserves. Because the country had no central bank, there was no mechanism to regulate the money supply or to use monetary policy to control what Alan Greenspan would famously call “irrational exuberance.” The result was a huge, but unsustainable, boom. There was just over 9,000 miles of railroad trackage in the United States in 1850, but a decade later there was 30,626. Pig iron production soared from 63,000 tons in 1850 to 883,000 tons a mere six years later. Increasingly, the iron ore came from the Marquette Iron Range in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the first of the iron ore deposits found around Lake Superior that would prove in the next half century to be the largest and richest in the world.

The Origins of the British
by Stephen Oppenheimer
Published 1 Jul 2007

The quality and richness of grave goods, from small personal ornaments to elaborately carved antlers and the use of ochre, could indicate variation in status, but their presence all along the coast also suggests common belief systems spread over the whole region.8 One intriguing, presumably coincidental echo of the Pacific coast of British Columbia was found at Stonehenge during an excavation to extend the car park there. A set of post-holes, dating to over 9,000 years ago, had previously held three very large pine trunks each nearly a metre in diameter. They predate the famous stone circles by some millennia: These three timbers (and there may be more) represent the first truly monumental structure of the Mesolithic period known to us. What form they took (carved totem poles perhaps?)

London: The Autobiography
by Jon E. Lewis
Published 25 Aug 2009

The culmination of the Blitz came on the night of 29 December 1940, when the bull’s eye was the City of London. It was as if the Great Fire had been rekindled: flames reached from Aldersgate to Cannon Street. Nineteen churches and 31 guild halls were destroyed. The roll of dead Londoners now reached over 9,000. However, although no one yet knew it, the worst of the Blitz was over. London had taken it. For four years after the Blitz Hitler left London in comparative peace. But he had not quite finished with the capital. On 12 June 1944 a V1 flying bomb, launched from a site near Dunkirk, landed on Bethnall Green, where its one-ton warhead killed six people.

War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt
by Kwasi Kwarteng
Published 12 May 2014

The United States’ position as the leading repository of gold ensured that, if gold was still to play a role in the international monetary system, the US dollar would be the chain binding international currencies to the precious metal. The outbreak of war in 1939 had once again, as in the summer of 1914, led to an inflow of gold to the US Treasury. Moreover, the total inflow from January 1934 to August 1939, even before the war had started in Europe, was over $9,000 million. ‘Is it probable that the United States will come into possession of virtually the entire world stock of monetary gold . . .?’ asked a British economist in 1940, when he estimated that the US owned two-thirds of the world’s gold. The once famous Fort Knox became an international symbol of American power when a gold depository was built adjacent to the military fort in 1936.

Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her
by Rowland White and Richard Truly
Published 18 Apr 2016

From their own position, cruising 16 miles south of the orbiter’s descent, there would be a window of just sixteen seconds between the moment the IRIS tracker could lock onto the Shuttle at a range of 50 miles and the point at which Columbia passed out of the heat-seeking telescope’s field of view. After two and a half days in space and a hypersonic descent from orbit, the maximum allowable cross-track error was just 2 miles, while the difference in speed between the two flying machines would be over 9,000 mph. Bark’s last update on Columbia’s predicted trajectory would come ten minutes before the entry interface, the point 400,000 feet over the western Pacific where she began meeting resistance from the upper atmosphere. Her encounter with the airborne observatory would take place nearly twenty minutes after that.

A History of France
by John Julius Norwich
Published 30 Sep 2018

He had taken part in the very first Austrian campaigns against Napoleon more than half a century before, and had been chief of staff at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. He had fought in seventeen campaigns, had been wounded seven times and had had nine horses shot from under him. * Not so bloodless in the provinces, alas, where there were peasant risings in the south and south-east, as a result of which over 9,000 were deported to Algeria and 239 to French Guiana. Some 27,000 alleged protesters were arrested and tried. In 1859, when an amnesty was at last declared, 1,800 were still serving their sentences. Louis-Napoleon never forgave himself for such pitiless repression. 18 A Sphinx without a Riddle 1852–70 The Empire is peace … I wish to draw into the stream of the great popular river those hostile side-currents which lost themselves without profit to anyone.

GCHQ
by Richard Aldrich
Published 10 Jun 2010

Grossly overloaded, she set sail around midnight.24 A week later the Dakar arrived safely at Gibraltar, then set out across the Mediterranean. Her last reported position was somewhere east of Crete on 24 January. Nothing more was heard of her. Her wreck was finally discovered in 1999, south-west of Cyprus, at a depth of over nine thousand feet. She was found by the Nauticus Corporation, the same salvage team that located the Titanic. Something had caused the submarine to dive below her maximum pressure depth, and she had suffered a catastrophic implosion of her hull. The Israelis salvaged the conning tower, which is now on display at Israel’s Naval Museum in Haifa.

The Power Elite
by C. Wright Mills and Alan Wolfe
Published 1 Jan 1956

And in a society that values money as the foremost gauge of caliber, no truly independent Civil Service can be built—either from upper or middle-class recruits, if it does not provide compensation comparable to that provided by private employment. Pensions and security of job do not make up for the lower pay of civil servants, for private executives, as we have seen, now have such privileges and many more as well. The top civil-service salary in 1954 was only $14,800, and only 1 per cent of all the federal employees earned over $9,000 a year.19 The historical check upon the development of an administrative bureaucracy in the United States has been the patronage system of the parties, which as machines use jobs for pay-offs, thus making impossible office discipline and recruitment on the basis of expert qualification. In addition, since government regulation of business has become important, a government job has become important as one link in a business or legal career in the private corporate world.

Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of Al Qa'ida Since 9/11: The Pursuit of Al Qa'ida Since 9/11
by Seth G. Jones
Published 29 Apr 2012

He had also shown the presentation to several Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan leaders, including explosives trainer Qari Hussein.39 When he left Pakistan, he had little money. So he turned to Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan for help. “I asked them for some cash,” he said. “My cash was like $4,500 that I had with me when I was leaving, and I asked for some more cash because I had to do the whole operation here, so they gave me initially $4,900 something.”40 With over $9,000 in cash, a bomb-making manual in Urdu that he could barely read, his notes in English, and blind determination, Shahzad began to put together the bomb.41 But unlike Najibullah Zazi, the 2005 London bombers, and the 2006 UK transatlantic plotters, he did not rent or purchase a separate location to build the bomb.

The Rough Guide to New York City
by Rough Guides
Published 21 May 2018

This spooky East Village classic specializes in antiques, rare taxidermy and strange, freaky artefacts – owners Mike Zohn and Evan Michelson even have a show on the Discovery Channel (Oddities). Daily noon–8pm. Posteritati 239 Centre St, between Broome and Grand sts 212 226 2207, posteritati.com; subway #6 to Spring St; map. Over nine thousand movie posters, ranging from classics like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Goldfinger to modern blockbusters like Avatar. Tues–Sat 11am–7pm. Toy Tokyo Shop 91 Second Ave, between E 5th and E 6th sts 212 673 5424, toytokyo.com; subway #6 to Astor Place; map. Dizzying ensemble of Asian toys and cult memorabilia, mostly from Japan: action figures, vintage robots, roto-plastic figures and wind-ups.

Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order
by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright
Published 23 Aug 2021

Netanyahu admitted that the country reopened too rapidly, saying, “In retrospect, as part of the trial-and-error, it is possible to say that this last stage was too soon.” He contemplated a second national lockdown, but it was not instituted until late September. By that point, Israel had hit its peak caseload—over 9,000 new cases per day. Haaretz political analyst Anshel Pfeffer wrote in July: “Israel’s failure, at this point, is of a magnitude that seems to defy all its perceived advantages in dealing with the crisis.”66 If you want to understand why some countries led by nationalist leaders fared better than others, the contrast between the United Kingdom and Australia is particularly instructive.

Big Debt Crises
by Ray Dalio
Published 9 Sep 2018

-US Treasury Press Release June 24, 2009 SEC Proposes Rule Amendments to Strengthen Regulatory Framework for Money Market Funds -SEC Press Release July 2, 2009 Joblessness Hits 9.5%, Deflating Recovery Hopes “The American economy lost 467,000 more jobs in June, and the unemployment rate edged up to 9.5 percent in a sobering indication that the longest recession since the 1930s had yet to release its hold.” –New York Times July 8, 2009 I.M.F. Upgrades Outlook for Economy -New York Times July 16, 2009 New Jobless Claims Are Lowest Since January -New York Times July 16, 2009 Geithner Sees Evidence of a Financial Recovery -New York Times July 23, 2009 Dow Closes Over 9,000; First Time Since January -New York Times August 6, 2009 New Jobless Claims Fall, Beating Estimates “The government said Thursday that the number of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment insurance fell last week...The Labor Department said that initial claims for jobless benefits dropped to a seasonally adjusted 550,000 for the week ending August 1, down from an upwardly revised figure of 588,000...That was much lower than analysts’ estimates of 580,000, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.”

Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
by James Mahaffey
Published 15 Feb 2015

The rear section of the bomb was slightly larger than the rotund body, containing four tightly packed parachutes.210 Four very stubby aluminum fins were bolted to the rear section, looking like an engineering afterthought. It was designed to drop nose-down, with the parachutes out the back slowing its fall. The “frangible” nose section, painted yellow, was made of crushable aluminum honeycomb, intended to ensure a soft landing before it detonated. It weighed over 9,000 pounds, and would explode with the force of 3.8 megatons. To put that in perspective, that is more explosive power than the sum of what has been detonated in every war in the history of the world, including the two A-bombs dropped on Japan in World War II. These bombs were sealed and ready to go, with no removable capsules as had been the saving grace in so many previous accidents.

Persian Gulf Command: A History of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq
by Ashley Jackson
Published 15 May 2018

Except for the Gladiators, wrote Air Vice-Marshal Smart, Habbaniya’s aircraft were either dedicated training machines or obsolete ones, and most of his pilots and aircrew were untrained in operational flying.8 Of great importance, No. 244 (Bomber) Squadron, equipped with Vickers Vincent general-purpose biplanes, was based at RAF Shaibah, reinforced during the crisis by a squadron of Wellington bombers sent from Egypt. Despite its defensive deficiencies, Habbaniya had no choice but to fight when on 30 April the Iraqi army units that had ‘streamed out of Baghdad arrived before dawn and took up commanding positions on the heights overlooking the air base’.9 Comprising over 9,000 troops, the Iraqi force busied itself constructing defences and gun emplacements on the plateau. Smart’s reconnaissance flights informed him that the force amounted to an infantry brigade and two mechanized battalions, the twelve 3.7 howitzers of a mechanized artillery brigade, the twelve 18-pounders and four 4.5-howitzers of a field artillery brigade, twelve armoured cars, one mechanized machine-gun company, a mechanized signals company and an anti-aircraft and anti-tank battery.10 Though the situation facing the defenders of Habbaniya was unenviable, it helped that the British were confident in their superiority.

The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World
by Anu Bradford
Published 14 Sep 2020

It is also the country’s second largest manufacturing industry overall.86 When all the affected downstream industries are added to this, the continuing role that the REACH regulation will have in the UK economy will make the promises of the post-Brexit regulatory freedom even hollower in practice. It is illustrative that there are over 9,000 REACH registrations made by UK companies to date.87 The REACH regulation has long been derided by the United Kingdom as “symbolic of onerous EU regulation.”88 REACH was voted the most burdensome piece of legislation by UK’s small- and medium-sized enterprises in 2013.89 Echoing these concerns, Prime Minister David Cameron’s “Cut EU Red Tape” campaign included making the implementation of REACH more business friendly.90 Yet even Brexit will not free UK companies from the regulatory burdens of REACH.

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
by David S. Landes
Published 14 Sep 1999

But fiscality and the higher Chinese morality were on the Confucian side. The maritime campaign had strained the empire’s finances and weakened its authority over a population bled white by taxes and corvee levies. The decision (early fifteenth century) to move the capital to Peking made things worse: new city walls, a palace compound of over nine thousand rooms, peasants liable in principle for thirty days service but kept at work for years running. The transportation bill alone—moving the court from Nanking, some eight hundred miles—drove tax surcharges upward.12 A few conscientious officials spoke up, but the imperial courtiers stifled them by severe and humiliating penalties.

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
by William Cronon
Published 2 Nov 2009

Furthermore, Chicago’s other wholesale markets sold food and provisions in bulk at some of the lowest prices in the region, so lumber ships could bring back supplies rather than return to their home ports empty. All arguments pointed to Chicago as the best destination for most lumber shipments. As a result, lumber vessels accounted for most of the ships that visited Chicago’s harbor: of the nearly thirteen thousand arrivals there in 1872, over nine thousand carried lumber.89 One visitor to Chicago recorded that on a single day in 1867, “a favorable wind blew into port two hundred and eighteen vessels loaded with timber.”90 The Northwestern Lumberman was not exaggerating in 1879 when it remarked, “It may almost be said that the few hundred feet of dock at the head of Franklin street is the center around which the vast industry represented in the handling of lumber revolves.” 91 Lumber arriving at the cargo market came from all around the shores of Lake Michigan; some even came from as far away as the Canadian and Michigan ports on Lake Huron.

Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda
by Sean Naylor
Published 1 Mar 2005

AS Dagger’s planners and analysts pored over intel reports, maps, and satellite photos, they became increasingly familiar with the Shahikot, which had previously been to them just a vague area south of Gardez. There were in fact two Shahikot valleys—an Upper Shahikot Valley and a Lower Shahikot Valley. The two valleys ran parallel on a line south southwest to north northeast, separated by a mountainous ridgeline over 9,000 feet high. The Upper Shahikot Valley, which lay to the east, was aptly named. It had a higher elevation, and the valley floor appeared on maps as a thin ribbon of land no more than a couple of hundred meters wide, hemmed in by craggy mountain peaks. No one appeared to live there. But the Lower Shahikot Valley—soon known as the Shahikot—was a different proposition.

The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
by Judith Flanders
Published 14 Oct 2012

The Westminster Medical Society continued to ‘vehemently contest’ the diagnoses, even as by 1832 the first cases reached London, spreading along the river, from St Anne, Limehouse, to Rotherhithe, Whitechapel, with its dock workers and sailors, then away from the Thames’ path, to Clerkenwell and the City, to Marylebone, St Pancras, St Giles and Bermondsey. In four months there were over 9,000 cases, of which 4,266 ended in death. By December 11,020 cases in London had been diagnosed in the previous six months and 5,275 died.73 The poor, as always, suffered most. In the epidemics of 1832, of 1848–9 and 1853–4, the districts south of the river, consistently poorer than those to the north, were worst affected.

A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
by Neil Sheehan
Published 21 Sep 2009

They had “demonstrated capability as the best qualified group of ballistic missile engineers outside the Soviet Union, if not in the world,” he was to boast. They represented, along with the American scientists and technicians who had worked under them in the 200-mile-range Redstone missile program at the Arsenal, “over 9,000 man-years experience in guided missiles and rockets.” Their leader, Dr. Wernher von Braun, was a man of renown in the 1950s, regarded as the father of the V-2 (although the missile had, in fact, a number of fathers) and thus the leading rocket scientist of the day. Given his past, he naturally had his detractors.

740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
by Michael Gross
Published 18 Dec 2007

Out of that would come real estate and corporate taxes; mortgage interest of $220,000 a year; just over $35,000 in annual labor costs (for the salaries of a super, twelve elevator men, four doormen, four carriage men, three porters, a handyman, two relief men, and one night hall captain); insurance premiums; and payments for electric light and power, steam heat, water, repairs, supplies, and administrative costs. James T. Lee predicted that this budget would throw off a surplus of just over $9,000 a year—presumably extra cash for emergencies. That would prove a tad optimistic. THE NEW APARTMENT HOUSE ROSE QUICKLY THAT WINTER AND THE FOLLOWING spring, proof, if any were needed, that a mere stock market correction couldn’t stop progress. Steelwork had been completed by January 1930. Roof riveting commenced the day after Valentine’s Day.

Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities
by Eric Kaufmann
Published 24 Oct 2018

Suzuki was attacked by the Canadian right, with the Conservative Immigration Minister, Jason Kenney, calling the remarks ‘toxic’ and the right-wing blogger Ezra Levant fulminating about Suzuki’s ‘xenophobic, crazy ideas that would put him to the right of the Ku Klux Klan on immigration’. Yet in an opt-in survey of over 9,000 respondents, 79 per cent said Suzuki ‘had a point’ while only 21 per cent called him ‘out of line’.33 In Vancouver, foreign property investors, mainly from mainland China, were responsible for overheating the housing market, driving home prices beyond the reach of many Vancouverites in a city where the ratio of house prices to income is one of the highest in the world.

The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Published 23 Sep 2019

As early as 1792 the first Congress passed the Post Office Act to create a federal postal service and quickly managed to form a huge web connecting the country. The post office soon became the single most important government employer. In 1816, 69 percent of the federal civilian workforce were postmasters. By 1841 this number had risen to 79 percent, and there were over 9,000 postmasters. The New York Times described it in 1852 as the “mighty arm of civil government.” Yet the post office was a public-private partnership as well. The mail was carried by private stagecoaches subsidized by the federal government. By 1828 there were over 700 private mail contractors. This partnership enabled the federal state to establish a widespread presence throughout this vast territory.

Immigration worldwide: policies, practices, and trends
by Uma Anand Segal , Doreen Elliott and Nazneen S. Mayadas
Published 19 Jan 2010

In 2001 around 400,000 applications were recorded—this figure decreased to just under 200,000 in 2006 (Eurostat, 2007). 2. For example, over 18,000 applications from Iraqi nationals were made in Sweden in 2007, but only 144 in France. Greece, on the other hand, which, overall, had more applications than Germany, received applications from over 9,000 Pakistani nationals—contrasting with only 61 such applications in Sweden (and, given historical links, a still comparatively low number of 1,765 in the UK) (UNHCR, 2008). 3. This includes migration of non-EU nationals from one EU country to another. 4. The median age among immigrants from non-EU countries was 27.7 in 2006, compared with a median age of the current EU population of 40.4 (Eurostat, 2008a and 2008b). 5.

The Rough Guide to Chile
by Melissa Graham and Andrew Benson
Published 11 May 2003

The park’s namesake and centrepiece, 16km along a muddy track from the village, is the perfectly conical Volcán Hornopirén, whose steep slopes are 385 The eruption of Volcán Chaitén THE C ARRE TE RA AUS T R A L On May 2, 2008, Volcán Chaitén, at the foot of which nestles its namesake town, erupted for the first time in over 9,000 years, taking the local residents completely by surprise, as the volcano was thought to be fully dormant. The town, and much of the surrounding area, had to be evacuated as the 19-mile (30-kilometre) plume of ash and steam from the volcano affected the local water sources. The ashfall drifted as far as some of the outlying Chiloé islands to the west and parts of eastern Patagonia, covering Futaleufú and even reaching Argentina’s Esquél.

Andrew Carnegie
by David Nasaw
Published 15 Nov 2007

Recipients of awards—or their heirs—received medals, with the inscription from the New Testament: “Greater Love Hath No Man Than This, That a Man Lay Down His Life for His Friends.” In its first one hundred years of operation, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, based in Pittsburgh, dispersed $27 million to honor and support over nine thousand Carnegie heroes in the United States and Canada with cash awards, college fellowships, pensions, and medals. Hero Fund commissions remain in operation today in the United Kingdom, the United States, and nine European nations.8 CARNEGIE was delighted with Roosevelt’s election in 1908. As an unelected president, Roosevelt had been constrained to follow the mandates of the man whom the people had elected in 1900.

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder
Published 1 Sep 2008

For seven days she rode the train until, at the border town of Zabaykai’sk, a Russian guard stopped her before she could enter China. She told the man she was buying leather for the army and promised him a bottle of slivovitz on her return. Either naive or lenient, he let her through the border. She rode through Harbin, Manchuria, to Tientsin, China, on another train. By then Rose had journeyed over nine thousand miles across almost the entire continent of Asia.5 From Tientsin she used her small stock of money to take a boat to Japan, with stops at Hiroshima and Kobe along the way, until she finally arrived in Yokohama. There she waited for another two weeks until finding the Ava Maru, a cargo boat carrying peanuts that gave her steerage passage to the United States.

The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914
by Richard J. Evans
Published 31 Aug 2016

In the chaos, French soldiers had looted everything they could lay their hands on, joined in the pillaging by peasants who descended upon the city from the surrounding countryside. After the fires had died down, the charred ruins of the burnt-out city had offered little in the way of food and shelter to sustain Napoleon’s army through the winter. Nearly 7,000 out of just over 9,000 houses, more than 8,000 shops and warehouses, and over a third of the city’s 329 churches had been totally destroyed. Some 270 million roubles’ worth of private property had been lost without any possibility of compensation. Many civilians had already fled, and most of the rest had subsequently left the city, facing a life of vagabondage and destitution.

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, From the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
by Frank Trentmann
Published 1 Dec 2015

By the late 1960s, there were 45,000 proprietors of electrical repair shops and 20,000 furniture upholsterers.91 Forty years later, their number had plummeted. For every four TV repairmen and appliance service technicians then, only one is still around today. Older trades tell a similar story. The disappearance of the shoe repairman from American and European street corners is characteristic. In America in 1967, over 9,000 were still fixing heels. By 2004, fewer than 3,000 were left. Thanks to the Asian miracle, many shoes, shirts, umbrellas and other articles are so cheap that taking them for repair to a cobbler or seamstress who earns even a minimum wage no longer makes sense. Anyone who has marvelled at umbrella repairmen in Delhi and Beijing and wondered why they are never around in London or Amsterdam when one needs them will appreciate the economic logic of this change.

The Rough Guide to South America on a Budget (Travel Guide eBook)
by Rough Guides
Published 1 Jan 2019

A short walk up from the ferry ramp, the best of the town’s two restaurants is a reliable bet for merluza a la plancha (grilled hake) and other Chilean standards. Mains CH$5000–7500. Daily 10am–10pm. Chaitén On May 2, 2008, Volcán Chaitén, at the foot of which nestles its namesake town, erupted for the first time in over nine thousand years, taking the local residents completely by surprise. The town, and much of the surrounding area, had to be evacuated as the 30km plume of ash and steam from the volcano affected the local water sources and a mudslide caused floods which devastated the town. The town has been rebuilt since (though several eerie, wrecked houses have been left standing off Calle Río Blanco as a macabre outdoor museum) and is a useful transport hub and a good base for visiting Parque Nacional Pumalín.

Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
by Geoffrey Parker
Published 29 Apr 2013

Throughout the seventeenth century slave caravans brought 5,000–6,000 African men and women to Ottoman Egypt each year, whence they were distributed throughout the empire – but, after the arrival of the Europeans in the west, far more Africans went involuntarily to the Americas.82 Estimating the overall size of the trade in slaves between Africa and the various European colonies in America is extremely difficult; nevertheless, around 1640 an official with extensive experience estimated that the slave population of Spanish America stood at about 325,000 and that just over 9,000 new slaves were required each year to maintain this level. In addition, a further 80,000 slaves probably laboured in Brazil, where the colony needed to import over 2,000 slaves annually just to replace ‘losses'; while in 1656 alone 2,000 African slaves arrived in the English colony of Barbados.