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...home in Woody Creek, Colo., at the age of 67, was best known for his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, an account of a lost week he spent reporting from the gambling capital and succumbing to ranting, hallucinatory, pharmaceutical paranoia. The book is subtitled A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, and it may be about America, or it may be about Thompson--by the end you don't really distinguish between...
...Saudi Arabia reject the accusations. In a brief filed by the U.S., prosecutors say neither consular officials and FBI agents who visited Abu Ali in detention nor an American doctor who examined him after the Saudis handed him over saw any signs of mistreatment. On the 20-hr. journey to Washington on the FBI's G-5 jet, a U.S. official says, agents reported he looked "as healthy as a horse," chatting easily and never once complaining of any prior mistreatment. But in the civil case initiated by Abu Ali's family, Judge Bates said, "There has been at least...
Even more interesting than the brain's adult anatomy might be the journey it takes to get there. For 13 years, psychiatrist Jay Giedd has been compiling one of the world's largest libraries of brain growth. Every Tuesday evening, from 5 o'clock until midnight, a string of children files into the National Institutes of Health outside Washington to have their brains scanned. Giedd and his team ease the kids through the MRI procedure, and then he gives them a brain tour of their pictures--gently pointing out the spinal cord and the corpus callosum, before offering them...
With the provost, Steven E. Hyman, literally rallying to his side, Summers took a circuitous route to the Faculty meeting from his office in Mass. Hall yesterday, carefully avoiding the throng of protestors that would have met him on a more direct journey...
...traveling companion”—as he puts in the preface—is John Stuart Mill, the 19th century’s most influential liberal thinker. Mill’s philosophical framework becomes a sort of itinerary for Appiah’s journey...