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...than crazy and people afflicted less by self-interest than by tunnel vision. But even his most pointed observations are, at bottom, funny. When he satirizes network news in an anecdote showing how television "covered" the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden Eden, it is with the lightest of touches. Baker's ability to portray the less palatable sides of American life while keeping readers chuckling at his insights has made him America's funniest social critic; it also makes the Almanac splendid reading...
THERE IS an understanding that even the lightest skin cannot hide any traces of African blood from the eyes of another Black person. For Toni Morrison, this blood reveals itself as a ghost. She sees ghosts haunting each pair of eyes, coloring every Black man or woman's skin, ghosts that become, for Black people, a cloak and an identity. Toni Morrison must stare very hard and deep into the brown faces she sees, watching these ghosts so intently that they have become alive themselves and are often more vibrant than the human beings whose lives they influence...
Lucy had chosen the first route. Lucy was short, skinny, short-haired and black black, and thus unacceptable. So she made her choice. She selected Patricia, the lightest-skinned girl in the school, as her friend and followed her around. Patricia and her friends barely tolerated Lucy, but Lucy smiled and doggedly hung on, hoping that those who noticed Patricia might notice her also. Though I felt shame for her behavior, even then I understood...
Theories of massive neutrinos have been circulating for more than a decade, but only in the last two years have two independent experiments, one performed by a Soviet research team and another by scientists at the University of California at Irvine, provided evidence that even the lightest neutrinos have masses close to ten electron volts. Ten electron volts comprise about 0.002 per cent of the mass of an electron...
...nitz stood trial with other ranking Nazis at Nürnberg, but was not accused of any atrocities and received the lightest sentence: ten years. Released from Spandau prison in 1956, he retreated into obscurity, seeing only occasional visitors. Some West Germans felt last week that Dönitz, dying so long after the Nazi era, should have been suitably honored for his naval career. Others disagreed. Said Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung in an editorial: "A line should be clearly and properly drawn between today's navy and Hitler's, between today's Federal...