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...Another classic moment that Carson's eulogizers trotted out last week came in 1965 when Ed Ames of Daniel Boone, demonstrating a tomahawk throw, landed his ax squarely in the crotch of a paper target. Carson's greatness was reflected not just in the zinger he came up with--"I didn't even know you were Jewish!"--but in what came before. Watch the playback: he lets the laughter crescendo--five seconds, 10. He knows he has the joke. He knows it will kill. But you cannot have it yet. For a moment, he is keeping it for himself, like...
...globe-girdling disturbance that sweeps across equatorial waters at intervals of 30 to 60 days. Under its influence, says climatologist Wayne Higgins of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the atmosphere at mid-latitudes can undergo dramatic rearrangement. The result: a classic configuration called the Pineapple Express, in which the jet stream steers powerful cyclonic systems over warm waters near Hawaii, where they tank up with moisture before slamming into the West Coast. That is what happened around the first of the year, when back-to-back storms swept through California, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona and Utah and then went...
...roofs of houses." This is a familiar image to members of Bush's, and my own, baby-boom generation-incendiary idealism, soldiers torching straw huts with Zippo lighters in Vietnam, "destroying a village in order to save it." Bush, in the end, is a classic boomer. His was a speech that could only have been delivered by a member of our exorbitantly messianic generation. Our rhetoric has always been the rhetoric of freedom, framed by Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, which marshaled the mighty word as frequently as Bush did and was delivered, appropriately...
...cognitive ability are negligible, it doesn’t much matter whether they stem from differences in our biology or our upbringing...The tendency to treat one’s male and female children differently may itself have a biological basis. It is so ingrained and universal that the classic methods for teasing apart genes and environment fail to work. When biological twins are raised by different sets of adoptive parents, for example, both families are likely to share conceptions and feelings about boys and girls that lead to common patterns of differential treatment. In light of these differences...
...that featured Andy Roddick, Juan Carlos Ferrero and one or two others. Nowadays, as gifted as they are, the best of the rest can seem limited, even impotent, on the other side of the net from Federer. As Federer played world No. 10 Gaston Gaudio at Melbourne's Kooyong Classic last week, a first impression was that they were equally matched. Indeed, appearing languid, Federer dropped the first set. He then pressed a button in his mind. Moving like a cat and blending a tease of delicate volleys and pinpoint groundstrokes through an otherwise workmanlike showing, he breezed through...