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...Counting All the Moral Votes In a remarkable display of naiveté, a majority of Americans voted for Bush, thinking they were voting for moral values [Nov. 15]. They have instead elected a duplicitous group of war profiteers whose only interest is self-interest. The Republican juggernaut has seized control of all three branches of government. Religious conservatives will dictate how we live our lives. Toll the bells, my fellow citizens: democracy is dead in America. Francine Pasetti Tampa, Florida...
...that’s a swell idea! Let’s pour thousands of man-hours into a pointless, second-long display that will be the high point of our college lives...
...Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, with all the discretion of the under-age drinking at the Harvard-Yale tailgate. Even before the first of those great end-of-the-year festivals centred on the death and consumption of a turkey—namely, American Thanksgiving—shop displays all over Harvard Square, and doubtless across America, began to display the early symptoms of their great annual malaise: the infusion of décor with vibrant reds and greens. With Christmas roughly a month away, the holiday shopping season has already hit its nauseating stride...
...transparent concrete called LiTraCon. Glass in the form of fiber optics allows light to filter through the material, creating a surreal effect. Available in sheets 2 in. or more wide, LiTraCon is as strong as regular concrete and can be used for walls, flooring or sculpture. It is on display at the National Building Museum in Washington through...
...airs its dirty laundry in public, but when it does, boy, watch out! Appearing before a Senate committee last week, Dr. David Graham, an FDA safety officer, testified that there are five drugs on the market that he had serious concerns about--and then, in a rare display of FDA indiscretion, he actually named them. Other agency officials quickly took issue with the assessment, and the next day the FDA released a statement declaring that all five drugs are quite "safe and effective." But anyone on one of the medications is bound to be confused. What are the facts...