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...It’s now more and more possible to join a niche community that’s built around common taste in some esoteric form of cultural consumption,” Kaufman says. As the volume and variety of multimedia content available on any computer across the globe increases every day, artists within these enclaves gain the ability to distribute their work to anyone with a keyboard. “Rock bands are just as likely to emerge through self-promotion via MySpace or YouTube as they are through major record companies,” Kaufman says...
...Gist: If you don't want your kid to join the military, have them read the latest report on the health of Gulf War veterans, released by a congressionally mandated panel earlier this week. The 465-page study details how the U.S. military mistakenly poisoned its own soldiers with two chemicals during Operation Desert Storm, leading to a number of debilitating symptoms - from chronic muscle pain and digestive problems to memory loss and persistent skin lesions - now collectively known as Gulf War illness (GWI). Worse still, the panel found that millions of dollars in funding for GWI research had been...
...year-old drinking age would cause significantly fewer deaths, we should seek to allow those under 21 who wish to drink to do so.A drinking age of 18 would be far more reasonable. Eighteen is already considered the age of majority for most purposes, such as the ability to join the military, smoke, and vote. It is an insult to those between the ages of 18 and 21 for the state to say that individuals have not reached the age at which they can choose for themselves to drink responsibly.While the current national age of 21—effectively mandated...
That person will join a team of several experts in the analytical lab of the Straus Center. The new researcher will continue work currently being done at the center, which focuses on the close examination of art materials to determine artistic techniques and conservation methods. This conservation work is key to preserving the museum’s collections, said Daron J. Manoogian, a museum spokesman...
...international military efforts to police the shipping lanes of East Africa. The vessel attacked by the marines was nothing more than a rickety old fishing dhow, and the eight men arrested are likely to be quickly replaced by hundreds of other pirates - not to mention the thousands desperate to join their ranks and get a piece of the lucrative action. The pirates have thrived in a situation of negligible government authority on land, where the Somali state barely exists. And they are further emboldened by the jurisdictional difficulty of figuring out where to put arrested pirate suspects on trial. Strict...