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...This news was grist for the mills of the B612 Foundation (named after the fictional asteroid home of "The Little Prince," in Saint-Exupery's novel). The astronomers and scientists who founded B612 did so to alert Congress and the public to the menace of an asteroid strike and to lobby for a demonstration mission by 2015 that could show the feasibility of a controlled deflection of an object threatening to strike the Earth...
...kids. "All Pacific Islanders' dream was to go to these places," she recalls, "where they thought the footpaths were paved with gold." Some migrants would find both more and less than they expected; others would arrive at a creative life, where the memory of their homeland would become grist for their art. In many ways, these souls are still in transit. The rhymes of Bill Urale, the Auckland rap star also known as King Kapisi, echo out across the Pacific: "You are immersed in a vision cultivated by this Samoan / Strong is my brethren Samoa mo Samoa...
...analyzes the essence of Italian society by observing Mike Bongiorno, a TV game show host; another dissects the design of the 1,000-lire note. He has also described how comic-book hero Flash Gordon imparted American ideals to children growing up in Mussolini's Italy. Everything is grist for his mill. Eco's catholic approach is reflected by the way in which contemporary paintings on the walls of his spacious apartment are interspersed with drawings by his grandson, and the alacrity with which he leaps up to show off his antique-book collection. Unlocking the glass case he pulls...
...Cinque's death, she concludes, "was not a convenient screen on to which I could project sorrows of my own ? It was not even 'a story.' It was real." Yet reality is the grist of good journalism. Is it too much to ask of Garner to piece it all together? She wasn't present at Joe Cinque's last supper, but there were plenty of witnesses who were. And what exactly happened during the rest of the groggy weekend it took for him to die? Instead, Garner writes to the newly paroled Singh: "I wanted to ask her about...
...past year, has Harvard laid off more than 200 clerical workers, an arm of the university’s workforce largely composed of women, and drawn up plans to lay off 180 more? These layoffs expose the Working Mother award as so much smoke and mirrors, grist for a propaganda mill determined to distract the Harvard community while working mothers in our midst are fighting just to keep their jobs. Feminists and anyone concerned about the real status of working mothers at this university have a responsibility to stand up and oppose this hypocrisy...