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I read Gish Jen's article "racial profiling" with great interest. Although she does not believe that racial profiling based on appearance is the right thing to do, this is the rule unfortunately rather than the exception everywhere in the world. Her facial features gave her fellow Chinese in China...
When it comes to the employee side of our lives, the news is just as bad. Another recent U.S. survey shows that 96 percent of employees want more flexibility and control over their time through options such as telecommuting, job-sharing and flextime—although few encounter such possibilities...
"Kramer's Ergot" number four (Avodah Books; 324 pp.; $24.95), a mammoth example of these new books, gives strong competition to high-end museum catalogues but at one-quarter the price. Avodah Books boils down to one man, Sammy Harkham, a big, bearded guy in his twenties who means to...
The close encounter has spurred observatories and astronomy clubs to throw "star parties" in Portland, Ore., and Portland, Maine; in Winnipeg, Man.; in Austin, Texas; and in Singapore, Vienna and hundreds of other places around the world. Experienced observers will let the uninitiated peer through telescopes and binoculars for a...
For scientists, that's where the excitement lies, not in this week's approach. The two planets come close every 26 months or so, as the closer-in, faster-moving Earth laps the slower Mars on their journeys around the sun. But Mars' orbit isn't quite circular; it's...