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...more than 100 of the robots, which he carefully displays in a glass case at his parents' Los Angeles home. When Internet auction fever hit last year, the prices of the rarest robots - the $500-range machines intact in original box and Styrofoam - quadrupled, so Nakamura took a deep breath and hopped on a plane to Japan to hunt out the best deals. "It was the first time I'd traveled somewhere just to fulfill my toy fetish," he says of his trips down narrow Tokyo alleyways to check out tiny toy-shops. "But Japan is a mecca for robot...
Skocpol says these moves amount to a new breath of life for the department...
...though not technically, of course. Technically, Alzheimer's victims die of heart failure, pneumonia or perhaps a stroke, since the symptoms of the disease and a series of strokes are indistinguishable. My mother died of some respiratory thing, technically. It might be said that she died because she stopped breathing. Now, I would like to start breathing again myself, having held my breath for 17 years...
...part of the idea that money is a bad thing. Indeed, here at Harvard, it seems economics just irritate students. And that’s justified. The introduction to economics class here at Harvard, Ec 10, is taught by a professor that in the same breath calls workers “dumb” and equations “beautiful,” as I heard him say in Economics 1420. But students shouldn’t just reject economics and the idea of the free market because of one professor, or because it seems so logical and free...
When Timothy McVeigh dies at a prison in Terre Haute, Ind., on May 16, only a few hundred people will watch him take his last breath. Millions more, however, will be waiting to hear the details of his final moments. Did he show any remorse? What were his last words? Many of us will harbor a more gruesome curiosity: What was it like to watch someone...