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...point, even if it's from the James Frey school of drama, but in fictionalizing, the show ignores much more compelling realities. I was amazed that Black.White. could be filmed in Los Angeles, where the population is 44% Latino and 48% white, and yet still proceed as though the ancient black/white dichotomy was still the dominant dynamic. But worse is the feeling, in watching both Crash and Black.White., that you could have made both of them 20 years ago and changed only a few lines...
...among the Parisian in crowd. In the Rue des Rosiers, sample some of the capital's best Jewish food. Cost: $1.70. Journey time: about 30 min. Rome: Take Linea 3 (normally a tram route but partially serviced by a bus until the fall) from Trastevere for a tour of ancient Rome and neighborhoods ranging from Testaccio, featuring some of the capital's hottest restaurants, to the wealthy oleander-treelined neighborhood of Parioli near the Villa Borghese Park, and the San Lorenzo quarter, where the streets hum with university student life. You'll cross the Tiber by the Sublicio Bridge. Before...
...Moreau, a doctoral candidate in organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard, has published the first large-scale study of ants based on DNA to make an ant family tree, showing how different ant species are related. A little known subterranean subfamily, Leptanillinae, was discovered to be the most ancient relative of modern-day ants. “Until our study, the phylogenetic relationships of the ants was not resolved,” wrote Moreau in an e-mail...
...shaped bone turned out to be the lower jaw of a fish, but not any fish Neil Shubin had ever seen. The University of Chicago paleontologist had been chipping his way through an ancient rock formation in an icy drizzle near Bird Fjord on Canada's Ellesmere Island last July when one of his colleagues pointed to a wall of red siltstone and exclaimed, "What's that...
...certain timelessness to sports, baseball especially (the designated hitter is its only major innovation in the past century), that I cherish. The takeout slides brings us back to the days of Ty Cobb; the chin music evokes Bob Gibson. The game continues to possess its hallowed habits and ancient mysteries, unscripted, handed down orally, through the generations.—Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...