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...Some people started counting down. 'Nine.' Two buttons of his shirt were open at the collar. 'Eight.' He looked professional and clean. He was tan and blond with with lots of gold hair on his arm. 'Seven.' she wondered if he thought they might. 'Six.' She bet she probably could." -"Orchids" by Carolyn Gaebler
...prospective policy - for which a number of proposals have been put forward in Congress - would offer Americans cash rebates of up to several thousand dollars if they traded in an old, inefficient car for a new, greener one. The ailing U.S. automakers would receive a shot in the arm - potentially worth up to 2 million additional sales a year - while polluting cars would be taken off the road and replaced with more efficient ones. (All cash-for-clunkers programs require the old cars to be scrapped rather than resold.) "There are significant environmental advantages and substantive benefits for the auto...
...Dieudonné has made insult and denunciation of "Zionists" a recurring part of his politicized repertoire - one most observers view as scarcely veiled anti-Semitism. In 2003, he appeared on national TV dressed as an Orthodox Israeli settler and giving the Nazi arm salute while shouting "Heil Israel!" Since then, the comic, the son of a Breton mother and Cameroonian father, has been convicted for, among other things, calling Jews "black slave traders"; for claiming that Jews exploit the Holocaust to avoid political criticism in what he called "memorial pornography"; and for slandering a popular French Jewish entertainer with allegations...
...deliberately or unwillingly, and sometimes even unwittingly.“‘Metropath(ologies)’ is interactive, but it gets away from the kind of interactive art that is more like a puppet piece—the ones where you see it and you wave your arm and something moves on a screen,” says Judith Donath, Director of the Sociable Media Group and a Faculty Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “People look at ‘Metropath(ologies)’ more as an artwork than...
...only noon, and Zandi's world had already begun to resemble an obstacle course, circus edition. As he was preparing to leave for an interview across town for PBS's Nightly Business Report, someone grabbed his arm and steered him into a room to talk to a woman named Paula, an extremely earnest reporter from the Finnish Broadcasting Company (the "BBC of Finland," as she put it), who was dressed all in black, with a tight blond ponytail. The lights dimmed, a camera was pointed at them, and Paula started firing off questions about bank nationalizations and Barack Obama...