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...words. (Movies get "novelized" sometimes, of course, but novelization is merely a spin-off, like a doll or a T shirt.) Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind sold a million copies in its first seven months. After the movie appeared, Rhett Butler was irreversibly Clark Gable. Scarlett O'Hara was Vivien Leigh. Mitchell's prose withered to the irrelevance of an architect's blueprint after the house is built. Dashiell Hammett created Sam Spade. Humphrey Bogart became Sam Spade. The idea of a character becomes imprisoned in the body of the incarnator, and even the creator cannot liberate...
Given how overwhelmingly Protestant the South was in the 20th century, it is easy to forget that the Catholic Church--which, to its shame, condoned slavery--was a player there before the Civil War. (Think Scarlett O'Hara chanting the rosary in Gone With the Wind.) But the church virtually disappeared after the war. It aided the civil rights movement, but its numbers didn't rebound until the 1980s, as Yankees flocked to the Sunbelt's technology and service industries, and as Mexicans and Central American migrants moved northward for poultry-processing and other low-wage jobs. From...
...States needs a single, unified computer network that contains--at the very least--all the available information on the world's bad guys. This was the primary recommendation of the 9/11 commission. The FBI needs to know what the CIA knows about, say, the mythical terrorist Mahmoud Shimon O'Hara, and vice versa--and both agencies need to be alerted immediately if O'Hara tries to enter the country or has a phone conversation overheard...
...States needs a single, unified computer network that contains-at the very least-all the available information on the world's bad guys. This was the primary recommendation of the 9/11 commission. The FBI needs to know what the CIA knows about, say, the mythical terrorist Mahmoud Shimon O'Hara, and vice versa-and both agencies need to be alerted immediately if O'Hara tries to enter the country or has a phone conversation overheard by the National Security Agency (NSA). Everyone from the President to the customs cops stamping passports at LAX agrees this is a necessity...
...just what Okinawans eat; it's how much. They practice a dietary philosophy known as hara hachi bu--literally, eight parts out of 10 full. Translation: they eat only to the point at which they are about 80% sated. That makes for a daily intake of no more than 1,800 calories, compared to the more than 2,500 that the average American man scarfs down. And as scientists have learned from lab animals, the simple act of calorie restriction can have significant effects on longevity...