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...these kids are not the wretched of the earth. The camera shows their backgrounds to be lower or middle class. They live in suburbs, they have pleasant-appearing, even kindly, parents. The devil - in the form, let us say, of a crack dealer - does not live next door. The kids are, as far as we can see, perfectly normal young Americans. And, indeed, the politicians their parents overwhelming favor have been in power for six years. So one begins to wonder: What are the sources of that powerful sense of disenfranchisement that drive these parents to abet this robbery, this...
...item without reacting,” In the lab, if only two percent of the bags screened contained dangerous items, the test subjects missed the target items 40 percent of the time, according to Wolfe. “In real airports, the percentage of suspicious bags is much lower, so even under good conditions, the task is extremely difficult,” he said. Wolfe said that he and his team of researchers have found that while forcing experimental baggage screeners to slow down did not improve their vigilance, subjecting them to frequent re-training sessions seemed to lower...
...worth noting that both campaigns have been underway for some time, in what fundraisers like to call the "quiet phase." The Spec doesn't have it, but Columbia announced today that it has already raised $1.6 billion since quietly launching in July 2004. Yale, aiming lower, is expected to report $500 million to $1 billion in already-secured donations over the past three years, according to an "administration official...
...polio outbreak has been concentrated in India's largest state, Uttar Pradesh, home to over 170 million people. It is here, say health workers, that a few ultraconservative Muslim clerics have spread a myth that the polio vaccine is part of an underhanded campaign to sterilize Muslim children and lower the Muslim birth rate. Dr Hamid Jafari, the regional advisor for the World Health Organization (WHO) on polio eradication, says that the majority of Uttar Pradesh's Muslims have got their children vaccinated, but, "in certain places, fatwas have been issued against the vaccine." In those places, Muslims have stopped...
...discernible “plot,” but Lockhart’s films transcend this particular convention. The plots tend to be minimal—for example: “Boy waits for bus. Boy gets on bus,” or “Children begin lower down on the hill. Children finish further up on the hill.”The stillness of the films can be eerie at times, but more often evokes a meditative sensibility. Further, Lockhart’s compositions are consistently striking and sophisticated; the static camera window draws close attention...