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Deep Impact and Contact. They spent a lot of time getting the science right. I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent...
...hadn't. Capote didn't invent true crime, though he did revive and revitalize it. Since 1966, In Cold Blood has served as the template for thousands of true-crime books. But the weird thing is that with a few exceptions--such as Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song--they aren't very good. In Cold Blood is not just the first modern work of true crime; it is also the only true-crime masterpiece, period...
...mentally injured in the service of their country deserve the Purple Heart. To some traditionalists, the idea is absurd on its face, but it is not a theoretical debate -the Pentagon is now weighing a change in policy that would make PTSD, in a term only the military could invent, a "qualifying wound" for the medal...
...Eastern Europe, the world's most developed microfinance markets--the low-hanging fruit. That could leave out the poorest of the world's poor, who are predominantly in Asia and Africa. Says Alex Counts, CEO of the nonprofit Grameen Foundation, which helps develop microfinance institutions: "You might need to invent the microfinance industry all over again...
...can’t invent a whole new universe,” English professor Louis Menand, one of the authors of the final report, said recently...