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...that Dhaka is not doing enough to stop Bangladeshi jihadist groups in the border areas from crossing into India. But the victory in Bangladesh's Dec. 29 general election of the secular Awami League, whose leader (and new Prime Minister) Sheikh Hasina has pledged to curb Islamic militancy, could mean new urgency on Dhaka's part...
...stuff, or are we biased by the price? Why do we spend more with a credit card than we do when paying with cash? How can we simultaneously desire a healthy diet and quickly devour the slice of chocolate cake in front of us? And what does it really mean when we experience a sudden, inexplicable gut feeling about something? While we can't always control (or understand, for that matter) what our brain tells us, Lehrer writes, we can learn when to rely on reason and when to listen to our emotions. Sometimes a little piece of chocolate cake...
...with a customized composite of the minds and memories of actual people. (Between tasks, the actives are creepily affectless tabulae rasae--like children or especially pretty, dumb actors.) Some of those people, like the voices on an old laugh track, are now dead. Which raises questions: What does it mean to be alive? What is the Dollhouse's obligation to the people whose memories it "resurrects"? Is Echo herself, Caroline or the sum of her borrowed parts...
...framers of the constitution protected freedom of the press, but they didn't mean that the press ought to be free in the sense that no one ought to pay for it. In fact, they believed that the cost of not having a free flow of information in a democracy was too high to pay. "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be," wrote Thomas Jefferson...
...Sold the WorldBy William KleinknechtRonald Reagan is pretty much the devil. This is fact. I mean, look at that charming face, that movie star smile, that evil cancer stick dangling from his pretty mouth, coercing impressionable children everywhere to smoke. This book is almost certainly about all the wrongdoing Reagan perpetrated while he hid behind his coy grin and dashing good looks. From Iran-Contra to Reaganomics to introducing crack cocaine to the hood (alright, maybe he didn’t really do this, but damn if he doesn’t make a good scapegoat), there?...