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...story office buildings and glass-plated corporate towers. The inhabitants migrated here about a decade ago from villages all around Thailand. Jacky came from Nakon Nayok, a province near Bangkok's Don Muang airport, seeking financial redemption in the Asian economic miracle. And for a while in the mid-'90s, conditions in this slum actually improved. Some of the huts had running water piped in. Even the shabbiest shanties were wired for electricity. The main alleyways were paved. This was when Thailand's development and construction boom required the labor of every able-bodied person. There were shopping malls...
...guess that in 1946, Kristol was young; the U.S. had just emerged triumphant from a terrible war; the Cold War had not yet set in, and - I'm guessing - perhaps much about the America of 1946 seemed more congenial to Kristol than much about the America of the Clinton '90s...
...what was a wonderful year? I'm not sure. Was it one from the '90s? From the Reagan '80s, maybe - the Gipper twinkling amid bunting and fireworks? Surely you are not going to speak up for something from the lame '70s? It is possible. Mary Tyler Moore was adorable...
...undergoes it (his most recent treatment was last summer; he currently takes medications). A tiny number of patients die: the National Institute of Mental Health says the figure is 1 in 10,000, about the same as any procedure involving anesthesia. Antishock activists cite Texas statistics from the mid-'90s, saying about 1 in 320 electroshock patients died in the two weeks after treatment, though the deaths weren't necessarily caused by electroshock. The activists also say electroshock causes brain damage. Dr. Breggin says the damage produces delirium so severe that patients can't fully experience depression or other higher...
...universe that every era has its cute British rock band and its brooding British rock band. The early '60s had the cuddly Beatles and the roguish Rolling Stones; the '70s and '80s had the romantic Police and the revolutionary Clash; the '90s had jocular Oasis and snide Blur. Since Radiohead, the band infamously given to brooding, has emerged as the most prominent British rock export of the early '00s, the rise of a cute alternative has seemed almost inevitable...