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...discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...Wordsworth and Blake charged that industrialization was stripping people of their individuality and their connection to the past, while in politics, Karl Marx accused capitalism of ruthlessly exploiting workers. Buruma and Margalit spotlight the often striking overlap in language and ideas between Europe's intellectual rebels from the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and today's Islamic reactionaries, and demonstrate how that influence was transmitted. Many of Iran's Islamist revolutionaries, for example, absorbed Marxism's critique of the capitalist West. Hence, the authors insist, the rise of anti-American hatred in Islamic nations "is not ... a civilization...
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin is considered one of history's great gastronomes. The 18th century Frenchman, however, spent years as a lawyer before openly pursuing his epicurean calling. It's a trajectory scores of Americans have traveled in recent years as they abandoned the corporate world and sought greater happiness at cooking academies. But if Brillat-Savarin were around today, he would probably skip the law and head straight to the kitchen. The fastest-growing population in the nation's cooking schools is young people who refuse to do time as lawyers, orthopedists or even traditional college students but instead...
...slum it at the 452-room, $419-a-night Ritz-Carlton while you're in New Orleans, when you can opt for the more intimate 75-room Maison Orleans right next door? For $509 a night, you'll get a canopied bed, 18th century furnishings and a butler to draw your bath. Or consider the Enclave at the Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter, with 30 loftlike rooms that start at $375. It's connected to the main building by a 10,000-sq.-ft. outdoor garden and can be reached from an underground valet garage by private elevator. "There...
...stairs to greet her mother, who has just returned from work. There is nothing froglike or vegetative about the bright-eyed 19-year-old, who flops onto the sofa and expresses relief that her mother has remembered to bring home a chart showing exactly which part of her 18th chromosome is missing. "A boy at my school used to make fun of me, so I wanted to show him this," Elizabeth explains. After graduation in May, Elizabeth plans to attend a local community college, and then become a teacher's assistant in a hearing-impaired classroom and perhaps move...