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...sides have been distinct: breast-feeding advocates insist that women should be able to nurse anytime, anyplace, while opponents use words like discretion and discomfort. But the latest battle apparently has nothing to do with the best way to nourish a baby or the boundaries between private and public. It's about the nipples, stupid...
There is another story in all this, of course. President Bush is approaching Hoover-Buchanan levels of end-of-office ignominy. His evident discomfort at unveiling the auto plan Friday morning comes, in part, from the ideological anomie he feels at the massive government intervention in a once major part of the American economy. But what must hurt even more for Bush - who has always had a keen sense of political reality, whatever his other shortcomings - is the self-image of a President stepping before the podium in his last days to announce a stopgap rescue for two giant, collapsing...
Herpes, improbably, is killing elephants too - at least the Asian species. Wild African elephants are often infected with a form of herpes virus that causes them little illness or discomfort, but when the two species were brought together in zoos, the virus jumped to the Asians and mutated into a lethal form. "Zoos have accidentally created this," says Mason. "It's killing Asian elephant adults, and it's a leading cause of the species' infant mortality." (See pictures of Asian elephants...
...There will likely be scant accountability following the recent extinction of banks like Lehman Bros. and Bear Stearns, the collapse and sale of Merrill Lynch, or he bailout of A.I.G. Richard S. Fuld, Jr., Lehman’s CEO, might not face any more discomfort than his public roasting by Rep. Henry Waxman, the new chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. No judge can sentence him to pay back the $300 million he took from the company in the last few years, because he did so legally—if unethically...
...primarily in terms of what they lack, we would expect this sort of characterization would be offered only as a last resort—and on the basis of the firmest possible evidence. We have argued that in the present instance, the evidence is anything but firm. Hence our discomfort.” Professor Pinker, on the other hand, sees some merit in Everett’s work “and believe[s] that linguists should take his criticisms of the field seriously,” but he also fundamentally disagrees with Everett’s conclusions. Everett addresses...