Word: agee
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...irony of the nostalgia for TV's "golden age" is that it romanticizes the very things people used to condemn. Mass media were once homogenizing; now we miss how they unified us. Culture critics once said TV appealed to the lowest common denominator; now cable's ambitious niche shows cater to élitists. Some even romanticize commercials - commercials! - as making TV for the masses possible...
...Hard to argue with findings like that, but Woloshin and his co-authors offer a thought experiment: Imagine every single person who contracts Disease X dies of it at age 70. If you receive your diagnosis at age 67, you'll be gone well before the 10-year threshold is reached. Now imagine a new technology that spots early signs of the disease at age 57. If everyone gets the test, the 10-year survival rate soars to 100%, but no one in fact lives a single day longer. As with Zocor, early CT scans and early detection...
...think it happened in the same way that Obama's election happened - young people. They are inviting their friends over for dinner. They're growing their own food. They are making their own bread. For me to be around this age group is revitalizing. (See pictures of avant-garde gardens...
...authorities' argument that naked hiking should be banned because it could be detrimental to children, Kettiger responds with incredulity. "Oh, please. In this day and age, when kids have access to the Internet and where images of naked people are on every newsstand, how can they be shocked?" he asks. "Is there really a child out there who hasn't seen a naked person...
...Urban Affairs, who before entering government led a civil rights movement advancing minority and feminist causes. The daughter of Algerian immigrants, Amara sees official ethnic statistics as dangerous, not helpful. "Our republic must not become a mosaic of communities," she says, rejecting calls to add race to the gender, age and occupational categories contained in official data researchers use to study French society. "No one should again have to wear a yellow star...