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Most blogs, to put it mildly, reflect just how bad writing would be without editors. Thousands of bloggers think, for reasons wholly unknown, that we care about what they had for breakfast or the saga of their leaking refrigerators. Conventional journalists, like Alex Beam in the Boston Globe, have seized on these slice-of-life bloggers to condemn the whole movement as justification of their own privileged status as those few who should be trusted to wield the pen in a public forum. Beam is half right—the world needs thrice daily updates on somebody?...
Today, of course, you can't pick up a fashion magazine without seeing splashy liquor ads picturing women sipping themselves into various states of rapture. "Get in touch with your masculine side," instructs a recent Jim Beam ad, which depicts a woman puffing on a cigar. Flip on an episode of Sex and the City, and you are likely to catch Carrie Bradshaw and her friends blithely tossing back candy-colored cocktails at a downtown bar. But it's not only thirtysomethings on TV who persistently overindulge. On a recent episode of the Fox sitcom Undeclared, several college coeds...
Ursula von Rydingsvard carefully outlines a pattern in chalk on a cedar beam before it is violently carved with a circular saw. The serrated blade incises the wood as sawdust flies about her Brooklyn studio...
Definite endings. The Olympics offer those too. There may be no time limit to the war on terrorism. And the recession, depending on whom you talk to, is either over, about to end or somewhere in between. But when the lugers break that laser beam, that's it, no do-overs, no instant replays. How quaint, in a way, and how profoundly comforting: numbers that mean something, numbers that stay put, unlike the closing figures...
Ever since, the cyclotron’s proton beam has been primarily used for treating cancer patients from Massachusetts General Hospital...