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...Metro, no longer Intellectual Haven, becomes instead Lessons in Human Nature. Which is not as far from Large Fish Tank as I would like. It’s about as social, about as intelligent and about as clean...
...staring at everyone else and analyzing. But that’s all it is—mental doodling of sorts. That’s why there’s no conversation. Interacting with someone means they can affect you. We’d rather reduce each other to the fish tank. Alternatively, we can talk very loudly into our cell phones (this being the capital and Verizon a company with foresight, underground mobile gabbing has long been possible...
...attention deficit disorder, the most intense public passions pass quickly. You have only to wait. Everyone's attention span is short. The public images in our minds are made of electronic dust coalesced for a moment on television or computer screens; and you cannot even wrap yesterday's fish in hallucinations. Show me the money...
...sanctuary, established in 1994. While research is permitted, anti-whaling nations say there is no reason why it has to be lethal. Many campaigners consider the science little more than a cover for commercial whaling. Japan denies that, and says its studies of the impact of whale appetites on fish stocks are important. "Blaming whales for eating too many fish is like blaming woodpeckers for deforestation," responds Greenpeace. The diplomatic wrangle of the week, though, was the commission's decision to admit Iceland only as an observer. Iceland walked out of the IWC in 1992, saying it never expected...
...said the USDA pyramid “ignores” the fact that two kinds of fat, mono- and polyunsaturated, found in vegetable oils, fish, nuts and whole grains, are “good for your heart...