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...really like your article about the "Harry Potter" series, and I hope many others will read it and agree. I am glad you compared "Harry Potter" to our, excuse me, "television junk" because so many kids are saturated with TV and will not even touch a book. As for adults, I believe it's even worse. Thank you for your article. Now I will go read my own "Harry Potter" IV ! P.S. My parents love these books! - Natalia...
Gadgets will never be the panacea that technopundits predict. Some of this stuff is handy; some is intrusive; but most of it is downright dispensable. It is merely more junk to market to the masses. DAVID BAILEY Kenmore, Wash...
...people thought I was nuts," he says. "But in America, it's still possible to do something like this. There was an opportunity for me to make a difference." In the summer of 1997, without outside funding or public recognition, he single-handedly removed 45,000 lbs. of junk from a 100-mile stretch of shoreline. Soon a modest grant arrived from Alcoa Corp...
...Rusty scornfully discovers, he doesn't even have a dog. Or the highly developed taste for junk food he once enjoyed. Eventually the kid conducts Russell back to his past to find out what ails him, what makes him so angry with the world...
...suffer fools gladly, Park takes aim at what he calls "pathological science, junk science, pseudoscience and fraudulent science." He has targets aplenty. From homeopathy to therapeutic touch, from UFO myths to cold fusion, from self-deluding scientists to scientifically illiterate legislators, all are subjected to his penetrating critiques. A physics professor at the University of Maryland, and director of the Washington office of the American Physical Society, Park has honed his expository skills in a host of newspaper articles and TV appearances, as well as in his influential weekly e-mail newsletter, What's New. His lucid and often amusing...