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...grow up with the Greek Gods and then start exploring them in different ways.” “I don’t think that there is anything non-intellectual about superheroes,” Snyder reiterates. “There’s the perceived danger that we’re ‘dumbing’ ourselves down with superheroes but superheroes have the ability to be as intellectually stimulating as anything. I just think that people fight it a little bit.”Despite this perceived resistance, the demographics of the comics readership have...
...with a substantial reduction in tuberculosis rates and increase in childhood immunizations during her tenure. She later served as an assistant health secretary in the Clinton administration, and she's currently a top scientist at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a group founded by Ted Turner to reduce the danger posed by "loose nukes" and other weapons of mass destruction...
...concerns of life. It drives conversation, accentuates wit, entreats laughter, makes melodious the otherwise shrill and tone-deaf, assuages old grudges, and initiates strangers into easy friendship. It makes possible what, under normal conditions of reality, would be improbable. For that very reason, as well, it poses such a danger if used irresponsibly and excessively. But, when enjoyed properly, drink has served to unite—not to divide—society...
AlixPartners, a turnaround firm, said at the beginning of the year that 10% to 26% of retailers were in financial distress and were in danger of filing for Chapter 11. It is worth considering how the researchers came up with that number, given that there are tens of thousands of retailers and hundreds of thousands of stores in America. Why wasn't the number 9% or 27%? The answer is that the forecast is virtually useless, something like counting the number of poisonous snakes in an Indiana Jones movie...
...Weimar Germany’s economy, already suffering from hyperinflation and political polarization, all but collapsed as a result of the tariff war, leading to the meteoric rise of the National Socialist Workers’ Party in the parliamentary elections of 1932. Today, Hungary and Ukraine are in danger of defaulting on their already-generous IMF loan packages, while South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan fear for the long-term health of their economies. If America slides into protectionism, the relative geopolitical stability of the post-Cold War era may come into question...