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...which a young child copes with the disorienting effects of anesthesia after having a tooth removed, has ricocheted around the world at warp speed, amassing 8 million hits. In fact, the most surprising thing about the video's success was the outrage it provoked, as critics charged David's father with exploiting his son's obvious discomfort by sharing it with the world. YouTube viewers seethed; media-types parsed the inherent ethical dilemmas with Kantian nuance. The tempest subsided when eight-year-old David, reached at his Florida home by a Wall Street Journal reporter, said that becoming an Internet...
...year-old father-in-law stood to attention in front of an American flag after watching Barack Obama's Inauguration live on TV. People everywhere expect Obama to be a President for the world, not of the world. Dennis Callesen, Aoraki, New Zealand...
...Inductees are selected from all practices of engineering, including education, practice, and research. Stone said that he was honored and humbled to be elected, crediting his students and collaborators for their contributions to his success. For Stone, the election also had significance beyond the professional recognition—his father, Henry E. Stone was elected in 1981 and is currently an emeritus NAE member. Stone said that his election was a “pleasant surprise” for his father. “There is an extra special meaning for me,” Stone said...
...Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat, Rock Around the Clock hit the top of the music charts, and John Dingell was elected to Congress. The 29-year-old lawyer won a special election to replace his father, who died in office, and won a full term of his own the following year. On Feb. 11- after 26 more elections- the Michigan Democrat became the longest-serving House member in U.S. history. Dingell, now 82, spoke with TIME about his early days in Washington, the crisis in the American automobile industry and how he does...
...Your father was a U.S. Representative before you, so in a way you grew up around Congress. What was your first memory of the Capitol...