Foreign Native

It’s said that even people who can waltz through a lie-detector test without so much as blinking will stumble if required to do arithmetic in a foreign language. This probably wouldn’t be very useful for Sherlock Holmes to know in these days of $1 calculators, since it’s rather hard to find anyone who can do [...]

An unusual thing happened the other day. The cost of a Mexico City Metro ticket went up from 2 pesos to 3 pesos. At less than 25 U.S. cents for any distance, the Metro is one of the cheapest in the world – if not the cheapest – thanks to heavy subsidies applied by successive [...]