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...ACMA "blacklist," as it became known, was promptly posted online, becoming a handy compendium of Internet depravity in one convenient package - courtesy of the Australian government. After the list was posted, a surge in traffic caused Wikileaks to crash temporarily. (See the 10 most interesting finds on Google Earth...
Finally, after the negative-energy-sucking selenium crystals are scattered around me and the battle of the foot-breathing is lost and we thank the sun, moon and earth, I get dressed. I am pleasantly out of it and so much at peace that when Narayan comments on the essential oils still on my face, saying "I like things that vibrate," I don't even make a joke...
Narayan applies a mask of diatomaceous earth, microdermabrasion crystals, lavender, clove and sweet orange essential oils, which feels tingly and smells awfully Christmassy. She massages that in and then applies a serum of aloe vera and jojoba oil. I'm feeling pretty great and really sleepy when Narayan tells me she is going to tap out my tension. This tapping, it turns out, isn't tapping as much as really hard, fast banging on the bones around my eyes, jaw and nose with a stone pestle, for about half an hour. I don't know if tension is leaving...
...utterly international nature of our present economic hell makes it all the scarier. But in the long run, I think we will also see an upside: the meltdown amounts to a spectacular moment of global consciousness, this generation's version of the Apollo astronauts' iconic 1968 photograph of the earth from the moon - an unforgettable reminder that all 6.7 billion of us are in this together, profoundly and inextricably interdependent. (The sublime always has a bit of terror mixed...
...History doesn't repeat itself," Mark Twain is supposed to have said, "but it rhymes." Does America in 2009 rhyme with the Britain of 1909? Back then, the British were finishing a proud century as the most important nation on earth - economically, politically, militarily, culturally. But the U.S. was coming on fast, having already overtaken the Brits economically. Between the beginning of World War I and the end of World War II, as America turned into the unequivocal global leader, Britain became an admirable also-ran, radically diminished as a global player. If the 21st century rhymed, China would...