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A Brief History of China’s One-Child Policy
The world’s most populous nation is about to get more crowded in one city at least. In an effort to slow the rapid graying of the workforce, China’s state press reported July 24, the national government will encourage couples in Shanghai the country’s most populous city to have two kids if the parents are themselves only children.
A Brief History of GPS
Scientist Stephen Hawking ‘very ill’
Scientist and author Stephen Hawking is "very ill" and has been hospitalized, according to Cambridge University, where he is a professor. Hawking, 67, is one of the world’s most famous physicists and also a cosmologist, astronomer, and mathematician. Wheelchair-bound Hawking is perhaps most famous for ‘A Brief History of Time’ which explored the origins of the universe in layman’s terms, is considered a modern classic.