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...watched a lot of cartoons while writing Jackass 2, like Road Runner and Tom & Jerry. I saw one where Tom puts on a blind-fold and a bull comes along and smokes him. We got an 1,800-pound yak to do the same...
...challenge, then, for creating cars that run on something other than oil—and, further down the road, generating the bulk of our electricity from something other than coal—is two-fold. We need a renewable energy source that doesn’t emit greenhouse gases. And we need a way of storing that energy in a form that can be driven around. The latter has few viable solutions: despite intense research, battery technology is still relatively poor, and hydrogen has all the disadvantages already discussed. For the former, we have lots of promising, but highly underdeveloped...
...faint of heart or the thin of wallet: expect to spend hundreds on your books for these classes. Consider it an investment though, as the money you make in your first 20 years as a professional historian should cover that at least two-fold...
Like all worthwhile things in life—college, employment, gun ownership—your Hist and Lit career begins with an application. It sounds intimidating at first, but once you are accepted into the fold and its cozy nook in the Barker Center, you are joining an old family (seriously old—it’s celebrating its centennial this year).Like the Grape Nuts phenomenon, History and Literature is neither History nor Literature—at least not exclusively. Rather, it uses history to contextualize and draw conclusions about literature, and vice versa. Daily Hist...
Fendi CEO Michael Burke faced a similar dilemma when he took over the Roman-based brand in 2004. With a mandate from LVMH boss Bernard Arnault to turn the company around, Burke had to find a way to keep designer Karl Lagerfeld in the fold and also massage a better relationship between the designer and Silvia Venturini Fendi, the talent behind Fendi's handbag business. That required yet another kind of nuclear power plant, one that Burke promptly set about creating in the form of Fendi's historic palazzo in the center of Rome, which he renovated in order...