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Just more intense, you know? I mean, the older you get... So many people that I know have died, I know more dead people now than living people. So it is only more intense. It really is just confirmation of what I thought as a young person: an existential approach to human life, that's my approach. Existentialism isn't as in vogue in Paris as it used to be, but I still go to Café de Flore and sit there and think of Sartre. That still informs my philosophy of life. What I was feeling when...
...account of one of the most important diplomatic sagas of the Bush years. His is an impressively researched tale of how the Administration's take-no-prisoners idealism gave way to the reality of what could be done with a North Korea that refused to buckle. Ultimately Bush's approach, says Chinoy, led to "six years of needless brinksmanship, missed opportunities, and the disastrous elevation of North Korea and Kim Jong Il to the club of nuclear powers...
...neocons had long suspected Pyongyang of cheating on a landmark 1994 deal to freeze its nuclear program. Yet Clinton had sent Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to Pyongyang in October 2000 and considered making his own visit. Vice President Dick Cheney summed up the Bush Administration's more muscular approach: "We don't negotiate with evil; we defeat...
...Despite the relative efficiency of this approach, both Melton and Daley stressed that direct reprogramming does not eliminate the need to continue work with iPS cells or human embryonic stem cells...
...information that is available - and is being purposefully funneled - over the Internet to voters, from YouTube videos to campaign ads to blogs that track every word and movement of the candidates. "Obama Antichrist" is an extreme example of Internet misinformation, but maybe it's a sign that we should approach this onslaught of information with some skepticism...