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...face of most writing?LD: The first thing is that he wrote probably the world’s greatest autobiography, and in my view, invented the way we try to interpret our lives. To give you one quick example, nobody before him to my knowledge writing an account of their life had more than 2 or 3 pages on the first 20 years of their life. He gave 200 pages to the first 20 years of his life, because he thought that’s how he reformed and how certain relationships and certain experiences must...
...generation, coupled with the fact that most people who identify a party affiliation early tend to stick with that party, suggests that the generation’s influence is here to stay. The Millennium contingent made up 17 percent of the electorate in the 2008 election, and could potentially account for 24 percent of voters by 2012 and 36 percent by 2020, the authors said. “I thought students at the IOP would be fascinated to hear about [Winograd and Hais’] book because it’s about you guys,” said Kamarck...
...American consumerism from the violence mere miles away. The simple fact is, if you’re doing drugs in the developed world, even recreational marijuana, you’re clearly involved in a morally compromising system. Comprehensive steps must be taken to rebuild a culture that takes little account of the ramifications of its practices. Certainly, this will be difficult, as much of the drug usage in developed countries is done by the socioeconomically underprivileged. But it must be done...
...days this year, and there were only 99 days with visible sunspots last year—the second-lowest total since 1911. Brian F. Farrell, a Harvard meteorology professor, acknowledged a connection between sunspot activity and temperatures on the Earth, but cited other research showing that sunspots only account for an overall temperature change of a tenth of a degree centigrade. Farrell did acknowledge that there could have been larger temperature effects caused by sunspots in the past. “A strong correlation between the amount of radioactive carbon and temperature from ice cores has shown that solar activity...
...member of the PRT, which monitors communications between Gitmo detainees and their lawyers, gives a very different account in a declaration to the court. The PRT member says Ghappour was advised that the PRT was not the right body to review a memo to the President. According to the declaration, "Mr Ghappour left my office at that point but subsequently returned with a heavily redacted memorandum ... Mr Ghappour asked me if the PRT could review this memorandum. Because this was a very unusual submission, I asked him what the point of reviewing such a document would be. He replied that...