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...consequence. Essentially a collection of anecdotes, The Lost Art of Walking is buttressed by the sheer fun of said anecdotes - lists of walking-themed popular tunes and miniprofiles of the stroll-obsessed. It's a fruitful topic: walking is so essential to daily life that one can connect the act to almost every and any historical event or human endeavor - battles, expeditions, feats of endurance, or plain old human evolution as we move from crouched primates to upright homo sapiens. And while Nicholson commits that all-too-common sin of conflating his subject with his life - the book...
...practice. President George W. Bush urged Congress to enact legislation banning human cloning in 2002 after being "deeply troubled" by rumors that a Canada-based UFO cult had announced the birth of a successfully cloned baby girl. Though the claims were never substantiated, Congress passed the Human Cloning Prohibition Act in 2003. Congresswoman Sue Myrick, who supported the act, claimed that "anything other than a ban would license the most ghoulish and dangerous enterprise in human history." Religious groups also came out in force against human cloning; science was threatening to disrupt the natural order of life, they said...
...thought the talk was wonderful, compelling, necessary, and in no way apocalyptic,” said Kirkland House Master Tom Conley. “We have to bet that these will be the consequences if we do nothing. There is no good reason not to act.”Listeners at McKibben’s talk at the Divinity School yesterday afternoon said the gravity of the situation inspired them to engage with the cause.A 2005 graduate of the Divinity School, Brent G. Was, said this is the “first time since the early ’80s?...
...other words, Queen’s alums now feel cheated of the opportunity to reconnect with their undergraduate experiences and with university friends. At Harvard, by contrast, we seem so attached to the act of binge drinking that every new tailgate regulation strikes us as a human rights violation. Surely we’re missing the point...
...beginning of her work entitled “Accumulation.” After the improvised performance an audience member asked how she could do something so beautiful. She waved her hand modestly and sat back down. “I think it’s very important to act on instinct, and I try to do that,” Brown said. Though Brown’s movement has often been described as structured and geometric, she highlighted the element of improvisation that is so integral to her work. During the late 1960s she choreographed a series of gravity-defying...