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...about life, love and happiness--universal themes any crowd can relate to. Her speech about sexual satisfaction (or rather the lack thereof) could have come from the lips of any lusting student. She rather wittily refers to her orgasm as undiscovered territory and is just waiting for her "Christopher Columbus" to arrive...
...Columbus, the Indians And Human Progress--with Howard Zinn, professor emeritus of political science, Boston University. Museum of Fine Arts, Remis Auditorium. Wednesday, Feb. 19, 7 p.m. $6.50 for Museum members, seniors and students; $7.50. For more information, call...
...muss new method: using a $3 million combination of industrial-grade lasers, you can vaporize the skin right off the potatoes as they fly through a funnel at the rate of 1,800 a minute. This laser surgery for spuds, designed by researchers at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, works even better on tomatoes, a key commodity for catsup-making Heinz, which owns the still experimental technology. Ore-Ida won't update its recipe for peeling potatoes until the price of lasers, already declining, drops even more. Any commercial use of laser peeling is at least three to five years...
...brought back to life, are sanctified. On either side of the divide between Euro and native, historians stand ready with tarbrush and gold leaf, and instead of the wicked old stereotypes, we have a whole outfit of equally misleading new ones. Our predecessors made a hero of Christopher Columbus. To Europeans and white Americans in 1892, he was Manifest Destiny in tights, whereas a current PC book like Kirkpatrick Sale's The Conquest of Paradise makes him more like Hitler in a caravel, landing like a virus among the innocent people of the New World...
...500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' voyage to the Americas, Berkeley will put a new twist in its official calendar. While the rest of the country is observing Columbus Day next Oct. 12, Berkeley will inaugurate "Indigenous Peoples Day," becoming the first U.S. city to change the name and focus of the holiday. Traditionally, says Berkeley Mayor Lonni Hancock, Columbus Day celebrations have been "Eurocentric and ignored the brutal realities of the colonization of indigenous peoples." The new holiday, vows Hancock, will provide "an accurate history" of the explorer's discoveries and show how they led to the conquest and destruction...