In Dec 2008, which country issued a recall of its pork products following the dicovery of contaminated pig feed?
"This study is both ground-breaking and standard-setting as it introduces empirical methods in the study of international arbitration."
Empirical means verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic. In other words, a hands-on approach rather than an academic one. You might think it comes from 'empire' but it has a different root. Empirical is derived from the Greek empeiria 'experience', whereas empire comes from the Latin imperare 'to command'.
The world's first live TV Sudoku show Sudoku Live was first broadcast in 2005. Nine teams of nine players (including one celebrity per team) competed to solve a puzzle using hand-held devices. The object of the game was to enter numbers corresponding to the answers for four cells.
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