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...buffalo jumps," places where hunters would chase buffalo off the side of a cliff and then reap the rewards at the bottom of the fall: "The Blackfoot term for a buffalo jump is pishkun, which translates roughly to 'deep blood kettle' ... Anyone whose sensitivities are disturbed by modern slaughterhouse practices would be utterly repulsed by the mayhem at the foot of a buffalo jump. In the fall, buffalo suffered compound fractures. Splintered femurs were driven far enough into bodies to puncture stomachs and spill contents. Buffalo landed on other buffalo. Their horns and hooves ripped into each other's hides...
Paperless Post, “interactive stationary for a modern world,” brings together the refinement of paper invitations (remember those...come in an envelope? Pretty cursive writing? Delivered by a postman? No?) and the efficiency of online communication. With the ability to choose everything from themes to fonts and paper type, users can indulge in their creative sides, adding garlands, satin-esque ribbons, and other ornamentation as they please...
...effective as it is to flood freshman dorm windows with brightly colored posters, modern UC campaigning is more about Web sites than wall signs. In an era where computer access is more important than stump speeches, students can find out everything they need to know about this year’s frontrunners without ever making human contact. But students relying on the sites to make decisions may find themselves in something of a bind. Both leading candidates boast snazzy sites full of personal biographies and various aspects of their platforms. One learns from www.schwartzbiggers.com that Benjamin P. Schwartz...
...impossible choice. But when it comes to the leaders of modern times whom I never met, but would dearly have loved to, there's no contest. I'd give anything to have sat down with a tiny - barely 5 feet tall - bridge-playing chain smoker who used the spittoon liberally and had a weakness for croissants. And I'd ask him: Did you have any idea what you were doing...
...axiom that a generation of breakneck economic growth has brought its own problems. Modern China is not charming. Many of its towns and cities are desperately ugly and shoddily built, workers have few rights, and environmental disasters abound. As global demand contracts, China's export-led, manufacturing-heavy economy is now facing a sharp downturn. Moreover, the accepted narrative of China - that Deng opened up and modernized an old-fashioned and hermetic economy - needs much qualification. Recent historical research has stressed that China was modernizing and internationalizing fast, if imperfectly, in the half-century between the late Qing dynasty...