Word: edenic
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Died. Elia Kazan, 94, director of pioneering stage productions of A Streetcar Named Desire and Death of a Salesman and the movies On the Waterfront and East of Eden; in New York City. Kazan's films earned a total of 21 Academy Awards, including for best director for Gentleman's Agreement and On the Waterfront. In 1947, Kazan co-founded the Actors Studio, which spawned several generations of famous stage and screen stars. He also gave Marlon Brando, James Dean and Warren Beatty their first major roles. Kazan made numerous industry enemies by cooperating with the House Un-American Activities...
Time since the expulsion from the Garden of Eden: 3,679,200,000 minutes...
...cultural oxymoron scale, the idea of a "Singaporean punk" weighs in somewhere between "Chinese democrat" and "Texan pacifist." Singapore is supposedly the air-conditioned Eden, as neat and ordered as the corner of a well-made bed. Forget teen angst and despair. Who despairs in heaven...
...spoken word is 50,000 to 100,000 years old. But the written word--and therefore the possibility of reading--has probably been around for no more than 5,000 years. "That's not long enough for our brains to evolve certain regions for just that purpose," says Guinevere Eden, a professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University in Washington, who also uses brain scans to study reading. "We're probably using a whole network of areas in the brain that were originally designed to do something slightly different." As Eden puts it, the brain is moonlighting--and some...
...eastern end of Vieques, even as the military presence blocked the island's hidden coves and forested mountains from commercial development. Since the Navy pulled out of Vieques on may 1, its protective role has been assumed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. And word of the last Eden in the Caribbean has been rippling up from backpackers to more luxury-minded travelers...