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We have learned a tough lesson, and it has been a lot tougher for those tens of thousands of dead, innocent Iraqis and several thousand killed and injured American soldiers than for a few humiliated pundits. The correct response to that is not more spin but a real sense of...
The Pawnee Indians tell a mordant story about the kinds of things scientists discover when they study sacred remains. After decades of watching researchers plunder its burial grounds for bodies and artifacts, the tribe finally forced Nebraska researchers and museums to return the items in 1989. Once the treasures were...
My experience, I learned, is hardly unique. A chronically sleep-deprived person will often go through repeated episodes of microsleep, sometimes accompanied by microdreams (which are usually interpreted as hallucinations). If you have been up for more than 20 hours, your reflexes are roughly comparable to those of someone with...
You Can't Go Home Again Re "Why do so many of India's Stars Live Abroad?" [Feb. 13]: I applaud the essay by Vir Sanghvi, editorial director of the Hindustan Times, in which he asks why Indians are more successful outside India than at home. Alas, a similar problem...
To the editors: Ever since Lawrence Summers expressed the view that women are underrepresented in the academic world because of innate inability rather than prejudice (“Faculty Uproar Led to Ouster,” news, Feb. 22), I’ve been asking my colleagues whether they agree...