Lana and emily are playing a competitive word game. whoever plays all of their tiles first gets to add the value of their word plus the total value of all of their opponent's remaining tiles to their score. also, the opponent must subtract the total value of all of their tiles from their score. suppose that the current score is: lana 324, emily 358. if lana's last word is worth 7 points, how many points does she need emily to have in her hand in order to win?

not concrete, existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence

the krebs cycle and electron transport occur in the mitochondria, though other than that i would need to know more information.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

the answer is: the start of world war i, and russia’s hopes of benefiting from it

during world war i russian joined due to in their current crisis they were being supported by france and the war was already declared to them by germany, they needed to maintain their political goal and leadership role in the balkans, and is the same feeling that this excerpt evoke the eager of maintain the land value.