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...tale, "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot," is the worst, a grimly heartwarming trifle about how you should be nice to Muggles. "Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump," a variant on the emperor's new clothes, isn't much more successful, though it was a relief to me to learn that the stump in question is a tree stump and not some kind of chortling severed limb...
...have to eat it,” she says. “You can’t completely intellectualize food and know what it means.”Gilberti suspects that a completely intellectualized approach to food wouldn’t be a concern. “Learning about food without eating it is a little bit like studying music without listening to music,” she says. “But I think we’ve come to a point in academic studies where the vacuum approach isn’t really à la mode...
...What They're Prescribing In Switzerland: Swiss voters have approved the creation of permanent, legalized heroin centers aimed at helping hard-core addicts learn to function in society. Rather than wean users off the drug, the centers will provide them with carefully measured doses twice a day. Somewhat surprisingly, voters rejected the decriminalization of marijuana in the same referendum...
...same is true for the rest of us. In the past century, we treated water as if it were inexhaustible. But that illusion has dried up. The only way to thrive in a warmer, thirstier world will be to learn to get more out of less. "We have the time to change," says Scripps' marine geophysicist Barnett. "Do we have the will to change? I don't know...
...social sanctions and social incentives.” The other two panelists, C. Shawn McGuffey, professor of sociology at Boston College, and Craig Norberg-Bohm, coordinator for Men’s Initiative for Jane Doe, Inc., were more in the nurture camp. “We have to learn how to kill, how to take power,” Norberg-Bohm said. These speakers emphasized the importance of child-raising, while acknowledging the difficulty in overcoming a “boys will be boys” mentality. McGuffey discussed an experiment in which a baby dressed in blue was described...