Word: edenic
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...read that one of Google's new cafeterias, Café 150, served only food originating within a 150-mile radius of Mountain View. I knew this radius included a glorious fund of farms, ranches and fisheries, the Salinas Valley food shed that Steinbeck made famous in East of Eden. I also knew that as one of the most successful companies of the era, Google could afford not only to pursue such a whimsical culinary ideal as total locality but also to do so in the form of a fine-dining restaurant. (Café 150 is one of 11 employee eateries...
...creature that lived 65 million years ago. His work was deemed scientifically “impeccable” by his dissertation adviser. But Ross is also a believer in “young Earth creationism,” the theory that that the planet is only as old as Eden. While it may appear inherently intellectually dissonant to work within the strictures of science, which holds that the Earth is millions of years old, during the day, yet privately ascribe to a belief that holds that the Earth is at most 10,000 years old, it is a paradigm that...
...produced a broad-minded, argumentatively sound call that bridges the age-old divide between science and religion. And if such a union is the next step in the environmental struggle, then let them ally. Because if they don’t, the difference between two apes and a primordial Eden won’t make any difference at all. —Reviewer Samuel J. Bjork can be reached at sbjork@fas.harvard.edu...
...outage inspired some personal soul-searching, too. Tse, the Hong Kong blogger, says his inability to breeze around the Internet prompted him to revert to another form of entertainment. He's reading John Steinbeck's East of Eden. "Excellent book," he says. "Reading is much easier now without the distraction and the temptation of the mouse...
...movie tells the story of a peaceful 16th-century jungle-dweller named Jaguar Paw. The first quarter of the film presents his idyllic village as a kind of Eden. The second quarter is a vision of Hell, as a raiding party for the nearby Mayan empire torches the town, rapes the women and drags the men to the Mayan capital as featured guests at a monstrous and ongoing sacrifice to the gods. JP watches in horror as a priest has several of his friends spread-eagled on squat stone, then hacks out their still-beating hearts and displays them...