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...strongly criticized PAD leaders for not demanding that parents with children leave the airports, as a police move against the protesters was being prepared. "They are getting like Jim Jones," Sunai said, referring to the American religious cult leader who led more than 900 of his followers in a mass suicide in Guyana...
...London's newest and biggest mall, Westfield, for treats for her three children back in Norway. "There are things here which you cannot get in Oslo and they are cheaper," she says. In its first three weeks, Westfield attracted 2 million visitors with its mix of haute couture and mass-market outlets, but on this particular midweek afternoon business is visibly slow, with security guards in Prada's Miu Miu store outnumbering customers by two to one and sales assistants outnumbering security guards by the same margin. The neighboring Rigby & Peller shop, offering the classic lingerie styles reputed to find...
...find ourselves now in a golden age of obsessive acquisition. We watch Antiques Roadshow and mentally inventory the attic, troll the tag sales, join the National Toothpick Holder Collectors Society. Once treasures were prized for their scarcity, but now mass production creates mass disposal and the chance to find worth in the weird and worthless: bottle caps and matchbook covers, swizzle sticks and toilet seats. (There's a toilet-seat-art museum in San Antonio, Texas.) Since objects of desire tend to hold some special meaning, they let people connect with the instant intimacy of shared fixation. If you doubt...
...conclusion of their published article, the researchers draw parallels between the species loss in Concord and the mass extinctions of the past...
...Some scientists call the modern era the sixth mass extinction that is taking place, Davis said, and so the study “gives us a very strong shot in the arm about thinking in an evolutionary way about which species are going to decline to climate change...