Word: believingness
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My stomach hurts. it's 7 a.m., and somehow person after person after person has persuaded me to pull an all-nighter so they can show me their little slice of Vegas - their glossy strip club, their late-night pool-cabana scene, their Studio 54, their swank ultralounge. And now...
Everybody loves a hero," Peter Parker's Aunt May tells him in Spider-Man 2. "People line up for 'em." This summer they have lined up at the multiplexes for two unlikely heroes: Peter, the quiet college student who when duty calls becomes Spider-Man, and Shrek, the green ogre...
It's easy to see why the Shrek and Spider-Man sequels earned the critic's vote: they are action films turned into relationship movies, with the ogre and the college boy trying to be normal while coping with their unique outsider status. Peter, having faced geek tragedy in the...
Voting, of course, does not a democracy make. It's become fashionable to insist that true democracy requires more than elections?it also demands the rule of law, honest bureaucrats, the protection of minorities and so on. (By those criteria, Indonesia still has some way to go.) But that doesn...
And unfortunately, when it comes to data on clinical drug trials, there is a lot that's not there. Why? First of all, researchers who receive industry funding don't necessarily get to decide whether the results are submitted for publication. Many researchers also practice a form of self-censorship...