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Scully's analysis of the monuments of the built environment follows the logic announced in the title. He examines these constructions of Paradise as the intersection of the world of nature (as it is or as it is mentally represented by different cultures) with the second world built by human...
Over the years the two peoples accomplished a cultural convergence after all: they met on the hard, bright surfaces of consumerism. But in each other's minds they remained mutually uncomprehending presences, like mythic cartoons, action figures: G.I. Joes, Mutant Ninja cultures. They tended to caricature each other, always getting...
For instance, he cites global warming as the reason why an egg can be fried on some streets in the Southwest. Gore actually starts the book by telling the foreboding story of the Aral Sea, now no longer a sea but a desert--thanks to the abuses of humans (there...
No plausible evidence exists for these claims of Egyptian negritude, though it is true that the racism of traditional historians when dealing with the cultures of Africa has been appalling. Most of them refused to believe African societies had a history that was worth telling. Here is Arnold Toynbee in...
Political representatives of two of the world's oldest cultures met in Beijing last week and established diplomatic relations. "This is a moment we have awaited for a long time," exulted Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy. The accord between the Jewish state and China culminates a 40-year effort by...