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...better sort of world, a book like Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations (Vintage; 285 pages) wouldn't exist. For a start, it would have been a completed book: author John Diamond, a popular Times columnist and the husband of the TV culinary goddess Nigella Lawson, died of cancer in March after writing just six chapters of an "uncomplimentary view of complementary medicine." That unfinished text - cut off, spookily, almost in midthought - is rounded out by an anthology of Diamond's newspaper columns, which show off his first-class deadline wit. (A story about being forced by his Hassidic computer repairman...
...unique identity. Decades ago, Manhattan’s dominance in almost every realm that mattered—money, political power, press—enabled it to exert an almost tyrannical influence on what once had been the nation’s fourth largest city. This supremacy extended to the diamond, where the Yankees and Giants won pennant after pennant. In the Dodgers—a team that embraced Brooklyn’s underdog role and uniquely represented a borough rather than a city—Brooklynites found a metaphor for their municipal existence and rooted like...
Your article "Who Killed Woolly?" inspired me to read Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. He believes that the overkill hypothesis best accounts for the mass extermination of megafauna in Australia, New Guinea, Madagascar and North America, where species were suddenly confronted by able human hunters. Diamond points out that it would have been unlikely for these giant creatures to survive countless climatic catastrophes over tens of millions of years and then succumb to environmental changes in a wide variety of habitats just after the first humans arrived. I only hope that modern research can help us learn from...
...Three hours in Boston, all pavement and buildings bigger than we had ever seen, affected our eyesight like a dark room, and so when we walked up the tunnel into the brilliant sunshine we were blinded by the field, an impossibly huge and bright emerald with a diamond eye. The Bosox stunk back then, and this was all for the good, because the sparse crowd allowed the sounds of the game to be immediate, hollow. The ball thumped into the mitt and cracked off the bat. I remember leaping to my little feet as the game's first fly ball...
Liberia's President Charles Taylor is not a happy man. Rebels based in neighboring Guinea regularly conduct raids across the border, while the United Nations recently announced an embargo on diamond exports from Liberia. Of course, the country has no diamonds of its own, but that's part of the problem: Taylor and his cronies stand accused of sponsoring the murderous, limb-chopping Revolutionary United Front rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone, a country with bountiful diamond fields. Taylor, who escaped from an American prison before returning to Liberia and fighting a bloody "liberation" war, denies he backs...