Word: consciousnesses
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...prospect of hanging concentrates the mind, then the horrors of apartheid gave South African writers a focus and an intensity unique in 20th century literature. Not many countries can boast two still-scribbling Nobel prizewinners, J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer, as well as a mob of socially conscious contenders like Breyten Breytenbach, André Brink, Zakes Mda and dramatist Athol Fugard. Yet since the fall of the race-based regime and the triumph of democracy more than a decade ago, some South African writers and readers have worried that the thrill is gone, the edge lost, the fire dimmed. Like...
...jazzy tone. “Space” in particular seems like it could have come straight from a Coldplay set. The album’s title itself, “Intensive Care,” suggests that Williams is using his own music as therapy. This self-conscious introspection helps to distinguish him from the Euro-pop he descended from. Let’s hope that Chris Martin hasn’t entirely cornered the introspective British lads in America market...
...attract 10,000 volunteers, making his the biggest multipurpose philanthropy in Britain. Charles' goals are not exactly radical, but neither are they blandly inoffensive. He promotes organic farming, alternative medicine and urban planning reforms to make communities more livable. He wants business to be more environmentally and socially conscious. Many of his charities use his stature to bring together people at loggerheads, such as ceos and environmental activists, or take the high and mighty to places like prisons and drug clinics they would never otherwise see. And he also views himself as a gadfly in chief, bringing attention to neglected...
GETTING THE SKINNY AT MICKEY D'S Ever wonder how many calories are in a Big Mac? In a new effort to cast itself as a health-conscious company, McDonald's has promised to put nutritional information--calories, fat, protein, carbohydrates--right on the packaging of all its products. The new wrappers will arrive in early 2006. And that Big Mac? It has 560 calories...
...technology that effectively keeps us too distracted to ask the uncomfortable questions about where we are really going and why. Between our work-hard/party-hard lifestyle, any time or energy for actual solitary reflection is lost—as is any moment for original thought and conscious direction of purpose. And thus many of us unsurprisingly head to posh post-graduation destinations. We are so busy thinking about the micro rather than the macro that we get to senior year without a clear purpose of why we are here and who we want to be. While some of us mindlessly...