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...that all our least charitable hunches and peeves about Sontag may have been right from the start—she is pretentious, not to say stupid, and her prose is dull, not to say wholly unadmirable. Sontag simply isn’t much fun to read. The mind I detect in the pieces about literature, about Borges and about travel, is sensitive and intelligent. She has forged a deserved reputation for herself as the preeminent woman of fine art in the New York intelligentsia...
Technology, as always, will play a part in improving security. The question, as always, is when and who pays for it? Most of the major U.S. airports have an advanced $1 million CTX scanning machine that can detect explosives. The problem is, these units are not used all that often and are reserved primarily for so-called suspicious bags. In March 2000, DOT Assistant Inspector General Alexis Stefani told a congressional committee that more than half the powerful machines were screening fewer than 225 bags a day, despite the fact that they are capable of scanning that many in just...
Riley says HUPD has made great efforts to reach out and educate the University community since last Tuesday. Officers have been visiting offices and handing out flyers explaining how to detect a possible mail bomb or a suspicious package. Extra uniformed officers have been protecting individual buildings and responding to requests for additional security at campus events...
...University of California's Lick telescope reported the discovery of two planets in orbit around a distant star. Unlike all previously discovered extra-solar planets, which have highly elliptical orbits, these two were moving in nearly circular paths. Alas, even the best telescopes are not sensitive enough to detect any extra-solar moons...
...witnessed the "angular" approach for myself two years ago when Cornell University permitted me to observe its admissions meetings. In Cornell's distinct parlance, renaissance students were dubbed "spread too thin." The admission officers also had a highly refined ability to detect whether kids were undertaking activity after activity to pad their resumes - or out of genuine enthusiasm. Sometimes this was just a hunch, other times committee members added up the time students claimed to spend on various extracurriculars only to realize the total exceeded the number of hours in a school week. In the final decision-making process, idiosyncrasy...