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...disabling condition is bad, but there's a particular terror connected to the kind that destroys the body and leaves an alert mind locked inside. Stephen Hawking has spent much of his life inside just that kind of corporeal prison. The late Jean-Dominique Bauby described his own, similar experiences in the extraordinary memoir The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, a book he wrote one painstaking letter at a time by blinking his eye in alphabetic code...
Marx Out of Ten What would Marx think [Feb. 2]? What kind of a question is that? I can tell you what. "Blimey, so I was right all the time." That's what Marx would think. And he'd be darned right. Bärbel A Rautenberg, HAMBURG, GERMANY...
...Sweet and Nasty,” Harvard’s party scene has seen more than its share of musical faux pas. The standard party features Lil Wayne, Ludacris, or even—heaven forbid—a Kelly Clarkson single. Almost no DJ, however, seems to play the kind of music that can actually get people’s feet moving—electronic dance music...
...Crist was waiting, tapping his foot. Crist, a Republican, is actually six months ahead of Washington in the stimulus game: in August, in response to his state's economic implosion, he launched Accelerate Florida, which is pouring out more than $28 billion in stored-up state funds for the kind of infrastructure and school-construction projects that are still being debated inside the Beltway. (See pictures from the historic Election...
...This is a man who went on public buses. He's the kind of baby-kissing politician we're used to here in the United States. He rolled up his sleeves publicly and gave blood. He tries to straddle the world of Islam and Islamic clericalism, and the world of the people." -Elaine Sciolino, New York Times correspondent, on Khatami's groundbreaking reelection campaign. (BBC, June...