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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Ruth La Ferla in the NYT:If steampunk has a mission, it is, in part, to restore a sense of
wonder to a technology-jaded world. ???Today satellite photos make the
planet seem so small,??? Mr. Brown lamented. ???Where is the adventure it
that???? In contrast, steampunk, with its airships, test tubes and time
machines, is, ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
///In 1969, Song of Lawino was published. It is written in the style of a traditional Acholi song. It is an Acholi wife's lament about her college-educated husband, who has rejected Acholi traditions and ideas for Western ones. Much of Lawino's anger is directed at her husband's lover who embodies ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
From the sightlines in Berkeley, California, where I lived then and live now, I recall 1968 as a year of horror and bad faith...
With the Vietnam War all but rolling back across the Pacific to poison the United States itself, it was as if people turned to spectacular lies and ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Klein combines her critical analyses of the corporate economy with a naive celebration of ???joyous??? populism, democracy and mass movements. The cynical abuse of democratic slogans by the Bush administration gives her no pause. She defends her idealised picture of democratic movements from critical scrutiny, in the time-tested way, by ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
So many academics want the arguments presented in Edward Said???s Orientalism (1978) to be true. It encourages the reading of novels at an oblique angle in order to discover hidden colonialist subtexts. It promotes a hypercritical version of British and, more generally, of Western achievements. It discourages any kind of ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker: Nathan Myhrvold met Jack Horner on the set of the ???Jurassic Park??? sequel in 1996. Horner is an eminent paleontologist, and was a consultant on the movie. Myhrvold was there because he really likes dinosaurs. Between takes, the two men got to talking, and ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
From Scientific American: In research that could give doctors a way to reassign sex in cases of unclear gender, scientists report this week that they have figured out why some children with genes that should make them boys are instead born as girls. The study, published in Nature, explains why ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
TROY, Mich., June 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Somanetics Corporation(Nasdaq: SMTS) will release its financial results for the second quarterended May 31, 2008 before the opening of the market on Wednesday, June 18,2008. In conjunction with its financial results, the Company will host aconference call that will be webcast live at 10:00 ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
ATLANTA, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Elekta, a world class leader inadvanced radiation therapy and radiosurgery, has been selected to supplymultiple Elekta Synergy(R) digital linear accelerator systems to Mary BirdPerkins Cancer Center over the next few years. The new Elekta Synergy systems will provide expanded capacity foradvanced Image ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Hospital also implementing program to link hospital records with physician offices CHICAGO and AURORA, ...
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