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Milan Kundera thought of speed much more favorably, but only because of what he termed “vertigo,” the ability to find small moments of imperishability in a world that does not encourage it. Vertigo makes us enjoy the peaceful pleasures of life. By that, Kundera...
Visit the monkey house at any zoo and it'd be hard to conclude that man's near relative has much to say. But researchers at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, writing in Nature last week, have concluded that monkeys do indeed use simple verbal communication. They observed male...
Jennifer ruled the girls in the 1970s, Michael was tops for the boys for 50 years. Move over. America's 1,000 most popular baby names of 2005--released earlier this month by the Social Security Administration--show that while biblical names still dominate the boys' list, nontraditional, spiritual-sounding...
19th arrondisement. Just when we were wondering if there were any non-whites in Paris, Oliver Schmitz provided a little epic of the African diaspora in France. In his last moments of life, a wounded man from Lagos is tended by a sympathetic paramedic, also African. Flashbacks paint a tragic...
Still, Hayden surprised the Senators with his openness on a few issues. He questioned the use of intelligence by former Department of Defense Official Doug Feith, who had created an office in the Pentagon to explore the links between al-Qaeda and Iraq in 2002, comparing it to someone putting...