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...During the next encounter with peanuts, the antibodies attach to mast cells...
...DONALDSON retires. Nation's eyebrows at half-mast...
...Department of Psychology: “Resolutions and commitments of one’s own future behavior are a bit like one person coercing another, except that in this case the present self is trying to coerce the future self. Since Ulysses had his sailors tie him to the mast so he could hear the sirens’ song without steering the ship onto the rocks, people acting in the present have restricted or coerced their future selves for the benefit of those future selves. New Years’ resolutions don’t take the form of physical restraints...
...Forty years later, happy liberals mobbed Grant Park, invited by another mayor named Richard Daley, to celebrate Barack Obama's election. This time the flags flew proudly at full mast, and the police were there to protect the crowd, not threaten it. Once again, Americans watched on television, and this time they didn't seethe. They wept. (See pictures of Obama's Grant Park celebration...
...life thereafter, one of Fuller's abiding preoccupations was how to mass-produce housing the way Ford made cars. He came up with the fully portable Dymaxion House, a metal dwelling suspended by cables from a central mast that held all the plumbing and wiring. He also produced a three-wheel Dymaxion Vehicle--the Whitney has borrowed the last surviving one--and even a Dymaxion Bathroom, which could be manufactured and shipped as a single modular unit. None of those worked out as manufacturing ideas in his lifetime, but they left behind proposals, plausible ones, for the future to work...