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...room containing a re-creation of a barbershop. Teeth are framed on the wall outside, with barbershop chairs and daschund statues lined up neatly inside. The room hints at antiquity, and yet everything inside is new and sterile. As a whole, the piece prompted consideration about the function of a museum, and what it “does” to art. While the brightly colored room might be a warm and enveloping experience as a barbershop on a street corner, in a museum it takes on a slightly cold and eccentric feel. Something about it?...
...know, to self-deceiving Zionists, all of that was a lie,” Matory said. “People produce quotations that this land [Israel] was unoccupied before they got there...some people learn this in Saturday school, and it’s a function of self-deception...
...survey of college students nationwide, which showed that around the country about 45 percent of college students had experienced depression over the last year. And this is not Harvard data, this is U.S. college data...and the thing about happiness is that happiness and happiness levels are rarely a function of external circumstances. So whether you are in one college or another, whether you are enjoying the weather of California or the weather of Massachusetts, it really doesn’t make that much difference.4.FM: I noticed that your class dropped from over 800 students...
...charge into doubt. He emphasized a medical expert's testimony about just how dangerous extended sleeplessness can be. In one study he cited, test subjects whose blood alcohol level was .05 performed better at a driving simulator than those who had been kept awake for 24 hours. And cognitive function and memory retention declines exponentially as one day without sleep stretches into two and then three. "This is the elephant in the room," Culp said. "How completely, utterly, totally sleep deprived these men were. This killing was not murder, but a horrible accident committed by a severely impaired soldier...
...well-known one she espoused in the early ’90s that enlisted the government, rather than private health insurance companies, to provide universal health coverage. To many former supporters, this was a proposal that didn’t make sense, given that it was the profit-maximizing function of corporations that induces much of the current system’s quality and accessibility issues. But it started to come together once I realized that Clinton receives more funding from insurance and pharmaceutical companies than anybody other politician—Republican or Democrat. Indeed, as the reality became clearer...