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...specific example of retooling a classic show is just one of many paternalistic changes starting to take over children’s media and culture. Before producers and writers start presenting all-positive programming to youth, they should consider the fact that the world these children will enter will contain some negative realities in it. Young people must be prepared to identify and react to these experiences...
Reusable water bottles merit scrutiny as well. Like many rock climbers, Scott Belcher used to carry a Nalgene water bottle made of polycarbonate, a sturdy, clear plastic. As an associate pharmacology professor at the University of Cincinnati, he knew that polycarbonates contain bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic hormone that mimics estrogen. What he didn't know was if or how much BPA wound up in his water. In experiments, he learned that trace amounts of BPA do seep into room-temperature water. But he was startled to find that when the containers were filled with boiling water--a common practice...
...these snippets is attached to the remarkable brain of novelist and critic Nicholson Baker. Baker occupies a curious position in American letters: part genius, part crank. His best works--his novels The Mezzanine and A Box of Matches, and U and I, his book-length study of John Updike--contain passages so beautifully observed and perfectly formed that they stick in the mind for years. His lesser works--the sweaty, oversharing sexcursions Vox and The Fermata and his tetchy political rant Checkpoint--contain passages you could spend years trying to forget...
...reaction to her breakdown:“The hurt frustration he showed on realizinghis insufficiency—the woundedperplexity of a deeply practical manin the face of irregularities of a femalenature (that apparently sound mechanismwhich nonetheless may decide, forwhatever reason, simply to cease functioning)—could not contain itself.”If all of Haruko’s problems, triumphs,and struggles can be so easilyreduced to capricious feminine nature,then why tell her story in the first place?What’s interesting about a person whosubmits meekly to biological weakness?There is something undeniably compellingabout...
...Pusey and Houghton libraries, while others are being freeze-dried. Spitzmueller said that most of the materials in Pusey collections would not suffer from water stains because they were covered with protective layers of mats and folders. Located near the burst pipe on Pusey Level 1, the stacks that contain the Theatre Collection were most affected by the rain. Water also seeped through the floor down to Pusey 2, which contains rare modern manuscripts. Brainard lauded the emergency team on their “impressive” response to the flooding. “The beauty of having this [emergency...