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Dragons dominate McCaffrey's novels, but she presents them in a positive light. In writing her books, she decided to try to change the negative image surrounding dragons. "Dragons had bad press in the West, whereas in the eastern cultures they are considered good fortune."
Wharton says that being raised as the son of a foreign-service officer "made me much more aware of different cultures and different peoples. I had from childhood a world view which has been with me all my life. It was particularly sharpened during the 13 years that we were...
An Australian by birth, TIME art critic Robert Hughes tends to view his adopted land--and its art--with an anthropologist's eye. That's probably as it should be. America, he likes to remind us, is an immigrant society, and its art reflects the cultures of its settlers. For...
The energies of cultural periods don't last forever. The Italian Renaissance came to an end--not suddenly, like a snapping rope, but gradually, through fraying, mutation, replacement. And one would need to be an extreme optimist--some would say, a willfully blind one as well--to think that the...
Berners-Lee, standing at a blackboard, draws a graph, as he's prone to do. It arrays social groups by size. Families, workplace groups, schools, towns, companies, the nation, the planet. The Web could in theory make things work smoothly at all of these levels, as well as between them...