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...planet. But there has always been crossover. In 1958 Dean Martin scored a hit with the Italian tune Volare; in 1967 Frank Sinatra recorded an album of songs by Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos (Tom) Jobim. Elvis Presley's Can't Help Falling in Love is based on the 18th century French ballad Plaisir d'amour. Such music became world music only when darker-skinned folks sang...
...football. The 5-ft. 11-in., 160-lb. Martin ran onto the field, ponytail peeping out from under her helmet, to kick three extra points in a lopsided 71-10 victory over Cumberland State. "I almost teared up at the end," said proud papa Wayne. (Cumberland, handed its 18th straight loss, presumably did too.) Crowe gave No. 89 the game ball as her teammates cheered. The modest Martin is used to this sort of thing--she played football in high school, even accepting her homecoming-queen crown in her pads and cleats at halftime...
...human society transform itself? How can we become stewards of the living world? To Wilson, what is required is a new convergence of thought and ethics comparable to the Age of Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries. "The Enlightenment thinkers...got it mostly right the first time," he wrote in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998). "They assumed a lawful, perfectible material world in which knowledge is unified across the sciences and the humanities." Consilience received its customary share of praise and criticism, especially from detractors who found Wilson's conclusions naively optimistic. But he makes a persuasive argument...
...opium poppy, indigenous to Asia Minor, was probably first introduced to Southeast Asia by Arab merchants during the Middle Ages, remaining an exotic rarity until British and French trading companies began importing it into China during the 18th century. Chinese EmigrEs then brought their habits with them, setting up opium dens in most of Asia's major capitals and introducing locals to the drug. At one point, during the 1930s, the kingdom of Siam earned 14% of its revenue from its 1,000 licensed opium dens. In French-controlled Indochina, 15% of government revenue came from taxes on opium sales...
...loves talking history. His eyes dance behind his gold-rimmed glasses - one of the few pairs of glasses I saw on this trip - as he runs through the various sultanates that existed in the 16th and 17th centuries, the various colonial dealings of the 18th and 19th and the upheavals of the 20th. Pulling out a tattered pink folder, leaning forward, he describes his ongoing campaign to regain for local Malays the right to cultivate land held by the government. Back in the sultanate days, it was called tanah ulayat, communal land, and that's what he thinks it should...