Indonesiaâs economy, the largest in South-East Asia, is slowing. Annual growth fell to 5.2% in the first quarter, its slowest rate in more than four years. Wasteful energy subsidies are costing the government some $30 billion a year and contribute to a destabilising current-account deficit.
William Gilbert (/ËÉ¡ÉªlbÉrt/ ; 24 May 1544 â 30 November 1603), also known as Gilberd, was an English physician, physicist and natural philosopher. He passionately rejected both the prevailing Aristotelian philosophy and the Scholastic method of university teaching.
Some slaves gained their confidence in manhood from possession of a special ancestry, status, or skill. William Elliott, the renowned Carolina sports man, had one such slave named May who was as expert a harpoonist of devil fish as Melville's Queequeg was of whales.