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Ice cream sandwiches, to be exact, constructed and dispensed by a roving Los Angeles food truck that goes by the nom de glace Coolhaus - a nod to Rem Koolhaas, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect who designed Seattle's futuristic glass-and-steel Central Library. Coolhaus is not your average ice...
Then there's the case of Hitler's own writings. Since the end of World War II, Bavaria has blocked reprints of Hitler's autobiography, Mein Kampf. The southern state, which owns the copyright, says the ban is the only way to keep the book from being misused by the...
There is an official U.S. time, determined concurrently by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory. Both operate atomic clocks, which are capable of calculating the exact time within an infinitesimally small degree through a process that uses microwaves to manipulate cesium atoms. These clocks...
In the far past, a nationally drafted militia kept the cantons from raising armies against each other. But it quickly became enshrined as the ultimate symbol of solidarity and subsidiarity. As Dr. Sabine Mannitz at the Peace Institute Research Frankfurt (PRIF) writes, “the Swiss concept of the...
Yes. The point is that this is an exceptional time, when we are hit by a very severe recession and just when the needs are the greatest, the amount of money available from traditional sources has been decimated by the financial crisis. Therefore those who are in a better position...