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...called communication devices in many cases alienate users from the people around them. Electronic communication is not conversation. It lacks the characteristics of human interaction: the physical, mental and emotional sharing of thoughts. Tracey Gilpin Marlborough, Massachusetts, U.S. Harvard in a New Light As a medical student very much intent on going to Harvard Medical School, I read with interest Nicholas Lemann's Essay on how élite American universities serve faculty better than students [March 6]. In Nigeria, where I study, there is a great dichotomy between students and lecturers that is aggravated when the latter are given preferential...
...early this year, with production expected to rise to 250,000 barrels per day by the end of the year. In the Petrodar venture, Sinopec is a partner with both the Sudanese government and the Chinese National Petroleum Company, the parent company of PetroChina. Sinopec has also announced its intent to purchase oil fields in the Sudan so it can further expand its business there...
...urgency not seen since True History of the Kelly Gang. Artist Boone is not dissimilar from that novel's vociferous antihero. But instead of the colonial authorities, he's up against an ex-wife (his unnamed "alimony whore") and an art-world ?lite (including "the idiots at Sotheby's") intent on stripping him of all worldly assets and self-esteem...
...they know they can get jobs. The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act made it illegal for employers to knowingly hire undocumented workers and imposed penalties of up to $11,000 for each violation. But lawbreakers are rarely punished. In 2005 the government issued just three notices of intent to fine companies for employing illegal workers, down from...
...select Linus Torvalds, who invented Linux, the Web's ubiquitous operating system; Bart Ehrman, the biblical scholar who wrote Misquoting Jesus, a book on how biblical texts, through error or intent, changed over the past 2,000 years; and Reza Aslan, who wrote No God but God, a book about what's really going on with Islam and the West, debunking the "clash of civilizations" argument...