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...world, even if this is very different from that of the U.S. The danger is that Americans will be mental prisoners of their benign intentions, convinced of the innate superiority of their own institutions and beliefs, and unable to see that their own dominance is as likely to breed resentment as admiration. It is time that the U.S. became more aware of this risk...
...promotion because by disguising taxpayer-financed public relations statements as objective news broadcasts, the government makes a deliberate attempt to prey on Americans’ trust of the news media as a source of unbiased information. The Bush administration has, with pre-packaged news, stumbled on a most insidious breed of propaganda: by doing news programs the (dubious) favor of covering pro-Bush news for them, the administration has taken rabid self-promotion to new depths. In the process, the Bush administration has implicated itself in a dizzying conflict-of-interest, made all the more unethical because the scheme, financed...
...that’s something of a misnomer. You see, the trouble with Boston drivers is not really that they’re jerks on the road—I’ve driven alongside my share of New York cabbies and asphalt cowboys. Boston drivers are a different breed. Their driving wavers somewhere between oblivious and schizophrenic. They stop dutifully in the left lane at a stoplight because that’s the lane they were driving in—even though there’s nobody in the other lane. They fade between lanes with no semblance...
...Meloy’s recorded work with the Decemberists, is how utterly and astonishingly genuine he sounds when he croons out those elegant strings of lies about Manchurian secret agents and deceased chimney-sweeps. In a sense, he’s a member of a rare and dying breed of musicians—those who can act. Those who can create a character wholly different from themselves, whose experiences may be completely foreign and exotic, and then still manage to find some kind of universal emotional truth with which to imbue that character on stage. There are hundreds upon hundreds...
...instance, planted in the United States to prevent soil erosion in the 1940s, went on to entangle telephone poles, trees and fences over seven million acres of the American South. Gypsy moths, a pest that devours oak and aspen trees, were originally brought to the U.S. in 1869 to breed stronger silkworms. But as our understanding of biology and genetics grow more sophisticated, so do our attempts to use plants and animals to rein in threats in our environment. The trick will be keeping the latest fixes from coming back?sometimes literally?to bite...