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In NYC Stuyvesant HS is a haven for the five boroughts smartest students. The ultimate magnate school for high achieving middle schoolers seeking entry to the finest high- school education money can't buy. Back in the day, my friends competed...
Posted on August 25, 2007 12:26 PM • 1 Comments •
Add vampires and you have the makings of Basic Instinct meets Dracula. Enter Ian Rankin one of the UK's leading crime novelists but instead of developing next Summer's blockbuster he's slagging on women working in the genre....
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Posted on August 23, 2007 12:35 PM • 2 Comments •
Among Dr. J. Michael Bailey's peers, the publication of his controversial findings on transgendered women and the public pillory that followed. His story is a morality play about the corrosive effects of political correctness on academic freedom. Some scientists say...
Posted on August 22, 2007 11:42 AM • 0 Comments •
Learning to think critically means learning to write critically, which the blogoshere makes abundantly clear. Due to the overabundance of crap. The fight against bad English is not frivolous", said George Orwell, who argued that, "the slovenliness of our language...
Posted on August 21, 2007 11:18 AM • 0 Comments •
Oil, soil, copper, and forests are forms of wealth. So are factories, houses, and roads. But according to a 2005 study by the World Bank, such solid goods amount to only about 20 percent of the wealth of rich nations...
Posted on August 20, 2007 12:03 PM • 1 Comments •
Ms Rice's career, which rose so fast ,is plunging back into obscurity, for reasons it is easy for anyone to understand. As secretary of state, she has mostly failed in grappling with a web of problems that she herself helped...
Posted on August 18, 2007 10:52 AM • 0 Comments •
The 11th Hour, is essential viewing. It may not change your life, but it may inspire you to recycle that old slogan-button your folks pinned on their dashikis back in the day: If you're not part of the solution, you're...
Posted on August 17, 2007 11:18 AM • 0 Comments •
The past 30 years or so have been an age of endarkenment. Marked by a retreat from common sense and reason where people are aggressively proud of their ignorance. It has been a period in which truth ceased to matter...
Posted on August 15, 2007 04:31 PM • 1 Comments •
James E. Lovelock does not think much of renewable energy. At a panel on climate change at the University of Cambridge this summer, Mr. Lovelock was asked what would be the most effective action people could take. Because humans and...
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Posted on August 13, 2007 12:10 PM • 0 Comments •
"On the Road" showed, and continues to show, generations of young readers a more intense, more passionate--and more closely examined--life. Some who've busted out to live it themselves died on the streets. Others have refreshed the American sensibility, in music,...
Posted on August 12, 2007 11:59 AM • 0 Comments •
Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS), issues for regional magazines in the Southland and beyond. I live in Ocean Beach, San Diego the coolest beach town around.
