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...Buckminster Fuller, projects Earth’s surface onto a polyhedron, minimizing distortion. Not only do Dymaxion maps more accurately represent geography, they also avoid placing countries in accordance with the north-is-good, south-is-bad formula implicit in the tendentious original Mercator. In fact, in 1974, Dr. Arno Peters developed a new projection specifically in response to the inherent racism he saw in the Mercator projection, which disproportionally represents the Northern hemisphere with respect to the Southern one. The segregation of continents is more than a physical issue; it creates ideological and cultural divides so great that linking...
...movies, Reservation Road and Things We Lost in the Fire, take up this theme. In the former, a lawyer named Dwight Arno (Mark Ruffalo) is rushing to return his son to his estranged wife, when his car hits and kills a small boy. Panicked, he flees the scene, becoming a guilt-ridden hit-and-run driver. In the latter, a father goes out to buy ice cream for his family, intervenes in a street corner act of domestic violence and is murdered for his trouble. Both movies concern themselves primarily with the aftermath of these shocking crimes, Reservation Road...
...hurt? Yes! How the hell did they think I'd feel?" Ralph Asher Alpher once said of Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, the astronomers who won the 1978 Nobel Prize for the Big Bang theory without citing Alpher--30 years after he had proposed the notion in his doctoral dissertation. The physicist was eventually recognized for his work, with awards including the National Medal of Science...
...allowed foreign convicts to be deported once they'd served a jail sentence, which amounted to a form of double jeopardy. "If it wasn't for Sarkozy, it wouldn't have happened," says Bernard Bolze, a prisoners' rights advocate otherwise deeply critical of Sarkozy's hard line on crime. Arno Klarsfeld, a lawyer who worked for him when he was Interior Minister, says Sarkozy also faced down Ministry advisers who opposed his policy allowing some illegal immigrants to stay in France if their children were in school. "The Socialists never made a moral ruling about immigration; they were fuzzy," says...
...maintains the Saferparks.org website, acknowledge that the odds of injury on a thrill ride are low. Millions of people rode the 7-year-old Rock 'N' Roller Coaster without serious incident before this week. But short of conducting echocardiograms on every child who wants to ride, says Dr. Arno Zaritsky, of the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, there is no way to know who has a hidden heart defect that might not withstand the ride's quick 0-60 mph acceleration, stomach-churning corkscrew turns and blaring rock-and-roll music...