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...probably not the last. Global warming might explain some migratory-bird declines in North America as well, although Greg Butcher, director of bird conservation at the Audubon Society, warns that it is dangerous to make assumptions. "It's great," he says, "when you have a bird like the pied flycatcher, which has been studied for years, and you have enough detail to pinpoint what the problem is." The populations of some seabirds, such as kittiwake, are plunging not because the birds are having trouble timing their food supply but because the fish they feed on have shifted locations...
...members of Jim Jones? People?s Temple - souls cleansed, brains washed - took poison and died at his command. Stanley Nelson?s documentary Jonestown: The Life and Death of People?s Temple interviews survivors and kin of the dead, and has a trove of footage to illuminate, if not explain, the seductive, destructive power of the Temple prophet...
...that are realigning world markets. El-Erian offered a number of hypothesis centered around the idea that a new set of countries are emerging with systemic importance that have far-reaching implications. “How do you know...when conventional wisdom fails, when your models can no longer explain what’s going on, when words like conundrums, puzzles, aberrations appear in the Financial Times,” he said. He cited as examples the ‘interest-rate conundrum’—the fact that long-term interest rates have failed to rise with...
...Situationist writer Guy Debord as a character witness on Colbert's behalf, who cited the comedian's brilliant "semiotic inversion." Bringing in a French theorist to help you prove someone is funny is like asking a structural engineer to show why Pamela Anderson Lee is attractive: They can help explain how it's done but you still have to judge for yourself whether the end result is effective...
...worst writer of his generation.” The piece, written by journalist Greil Marcus, lambastes Birkerts in a recent review of essays. “Perhaps [Marcus] views himself as the presiding eminence and guardian of the hipster 60s,” retorts Birkerts. That would explain the journalist’s “obviously bitchy” remarks says the maligned scholar. Marcus quotes a line from Birkerts’ essay, which asks, “Can I possibly convey how those words moved in me, how that cadence undid in a minute’s time...