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...often repeats itself, governments seem to learn their lesson—sometimes. Though the U.S. infamously forced Japanese Americans into internment camps during Word War II, for example, President Bush encouraged fair treatment of American residents and citizens of Muslim and Middle Eastern descent following September 11, 2001. Each chapter of the book covers a different war, and as Stone works his way through time, he starts sounding less like a textbook and more like an editorial, a progression that culminates in the sections on the “War on Terrorism,” where his views are most...
...fluid, everyday prose. “I Am a Strange Loop” feels like the kind of intellectually thrilling late-night dorm room conversations which don’t happen nearly as often as they should.This conversation is presented in pleasant bite-sized chunks, with each chapter divided into sections with clever headings. The concepts set forth in each segment of a chapter magically coalesce into a clear set of logical ideas which are easy to understand, but hard to articulate.Although Hofstadter is no longer as young as he was during the creation...
...identifies three qualities of the positive deviant—diligence, ingenuity, and moral strength—and structures his essays around these principles. In the last chapter, he offers suggestions for how individuals can strive to become positive deviants themselves...
...authors begin with some decent, if unspectacular, examples of environmental destruction. They detail the work of pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson, and use her experiences as a springboard to discuss the challenges posed by toxic pollution and how environmental contamination contributes to cancer. The solutions they provide in the first chapters are sound—highlighting environmentally-conscious manufacturing and sustainable urban planning, among other things. Still, these first two chapters struggle to be relevant, and the book goes on far too long before more timely concerns are taken up.The authors start to hit their stride as they enter the middle...
...group of Harvard students travelled to the Abbott Laboratories facility in Worcester, Mass., yesterday afternoon to protest the pharmaceutical company’s recent decision not to allow Thailand’s government to produce generic versions of its Kaletra AIDS drug. The protest, organized by the Harvard chapter of the National Student AIDS Coalition, was timed to coincide with the Illinois-based pharmaceutical company’s shareholder meeting today. In January, Thailand issued a “compulsory license” that would have allowed companies to produce generic versions of Kaletra and Aluvia, another AIDS drug...