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...Told in a staccato beat of bombings, shootings and car chases, it's the story of a time when the young West German democracy, some 30 years after the death of Hitler, was shaken to its core. It was a high drama game of cat and mouse: The terrorists would act and the state would react with laws that many Germans felt curbed civil liberties, helping lift the Baader-Meinhof members to mythical status. It's a uniquely German story, but in the age of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, many of the themes also resonate with American audiences...
Christakis is best known for his work on health and social networks. His current research explores how factors such as health, disability, and death can influence an individual's social network...
Christakis was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2006, and though he continues research at HMS, the professor continues to teach a popular course at the College, Sociology 190: “Life and Death in the USA: Medicine and Disease in Social Context?...
...aides tried to end the depression by replaying the 1920s. Assistant Agriculture Secretary Tugwell promised farmers pre-WWI prices, paying their competitors to grow fewer crops, thereby lowering surpluses. But these policies raised food prices at the very moment they needed to drop. For instance, the government orchestrated the death of six million piglets to support pork prices—at a time when the urban poor could not afford bacon...
...were to establish a unified theory for Stradivari's greatness, musicians will always be inclined to spiritual explanations that reflect the numinous and otherworldly qualities of classical music itself. In October 1987, my father, Lynn Harrell, a cellist, performed at London's Royal Festival Hall a week after the death of Jacqueline du Pre, the beautiful and extravagantly talented British cellist whose career was cut short at 28 when numbness in her fingers turned out to be Multiple Sclerosis, a disease that eventually killed her. It was an emotional experience: by that time, my father was playing...