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...used for ancestor worship, and is shaped like an open-jawed feline, with a child either resting in its chest or being devoured. The placid expression on the child's face and the steady posture of the animal suggest that the non-violent interpretation is the correct one. In fact, the piece may allude to an ancient Chinese legend about a tigress adopting a human baby. The early bronze workers certainly knew how to convey animal brutality when they wanted to, as illustrated in two small ornaments nearby that depict fierce tigers attacking defenseless deer. The museum also features...
...filling the hallways, nor is it the speeches made by children who already, at the ages of seven and eight, are aware that they don’t matter in this country. It is the publication date: 1991. One would hope that 14 years might be enough time to correct the growing injustices of our education system, but public policies enacted since then have simply worsened the problem. Our schools remain largely funded by local property taxes that disproportionately fund affluent school districts, and our urban schools are just as racially segregated now as they were in 1954. Now, under...
Such an assertion is as irresponsible as it is correct, and Kuhls’ audience deserves better...
...spring’s interview with H Bomb, in which he admonished Harvard women for giving men “free samples,” Mansfield was right back on his grind. Along with a tremendous riff about dining hall food, Mansfield drew blood on three separate battlefields: politically correct professors, the uselessness of benevolent activity, and the dangers of loveless sex. He’d been thinking about these things for a while, he told Doordropped—and all three take some inspiration from his scholarly work...
...Plate tectonics, for example or even Einstein's General Theory of Relativity fail to cover all bases. Still, ID'ers will counter, failing to teach kids about the scientific controversy over evolution is tantamount to keeping them ignorant. Except that there is no significant scientific controversy. ID proponents are correct in maintaining that there are legitimate scientists - a relatively tiny handful - who maintain that evolution is bogus science. But you can also find an equivalent handful of legitimate scientists ready to challenge relativity, or quantum physics, or the idea that HIV causes AIDS, or pretty much any widely accepted idea...