The World's Fair : Sentences in review

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David Ng is Director of the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory at the University of British Columbia - this is a just a fancier way of calling himself a science teacher.

Benjamin Cohen is an Asst. Professor of Science, Tech., and Society at the University of Virginia. He studies the place of S & T in environmental history, policy, and ethics. He also writes other stuff.

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"The world is full of light and life, and the true crime is not to be interested in it." A.S. Byatt

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Sentences in review

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Posted on: August 20, 2008 7:15 PM, by Benjamin Cohen

"Over the past three decades, grosso modo discourses of militancy in AFNs in the US have been superseded by more circumspect, incrementalist narratives of change, better adapted to hegemonic notions of the market and consumer choice promulgated by the dominant neoliberal political economy."

Well duh.

[AFN = alternative food network]

[this sentence = let's see how it stacks up against this series of sentences]

Overall, I give it 1 star out of 5. Fearless syllable/word ratio, daring use of Italian ("roughly," I'm told by Webster), but not nearly enough acronyms.

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