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...combined efforts of scientists and evangelicals to raise awareness of environmental issues??what Cizik terms “creation care,” a reference to the Bible—included the release of a report urging the federal government to act on climate change...
...superhero movies is not the first time that comics became profitable for non-fans. In the mid-1990s, there was a bubble in the market for comics as collectibles. Comics with “limited-edition” cover art or comics billed as “landmark first issues?? were bought up by the armful. People were starting comics shops in airports and malls, just to cash in on the craze. The owners of the Square’s shops derisively remember such “speculators.”Then, the bubble burst. There...
...risk regulation. What is this program about? CRS: The idea is that a lot of the problems the nation and world are now confronting are really about risk. Examples include natural disasters, infectious diseases, climate change, terrorism and nuclear proliferation. There are common questions that cut across these issues??how do humans actually think about risk? When do our thoughts go into the long term, that is, when do we consider the future? How can we get our legal institutions to focus on the long term rather than the short term? Those are very general questions. There...
...great connectors and have lots of caring and feelings—tend to backfire when applied to comedy. All that compassion makes it difficult to tell a joke. And once they do get involved, there is the problem of the unstated dress code. Women in politics have similar issues??Hillary has to wear pantsuits and short hair not because they are the best look for her figure but because of the image she has to present. Masculinity translates, to some degree, into competence. By contrast, if you are a female comic, you have to try not to look...
...must account for the messages conveyed by the Commonwealth’s most widespread symbols,” and no doubt confronting the artifacts of the past is something all societies must do. The point of the bill—to establish a commission to discuss these semiotic issues??is a healthy expression of our willingness to articulate our orientation with the past. Hopefully, though, the commission will find that the “contemporary commitments” of the Commonwealth lie in the production of a harmonious future, not in re-fabricating elements of the past...