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...shocked by China's extraordinary rise that in some ways they ignore what hides behind the prosperity: the expanding income gap between rich and poor, a worsening environment caused by immoderate industrialization and corruption in the government. There are so many acute problems to be solved in modern China. The country is developing fast, but it has a long way to go. Di Wu Singapore...
...parents. Alt-rockers They Might Be Giants, Lisa Loeb and the Del Fuegos' Dan Zanes make CDs for their aging fans' tots. The Rockabye Baby! CD series lulls Junior to sleep with covers of songs by the Cure, Radiohead and Tool. The stylish magazine Cookie is marketed to "modern" (i.e., urbane and moneyed) parents who would rather expose their children to Eames than Elmo. Babies may change your life, these media tell us. But there's no reason they need to change your iTunes playlist...
...inspiring new book, Wilson, a self-professed “secular humanist” who unequivocally acknowledges the “seismic divide” between Christian doctrines and natural biology, seeks to enlist the support of science’s most unlikely ally: the Wilberforces of the modern world. Composed as a series of letters to a Southern Baptist pastor, Wilson’s work paints a dismal picture of the dramatic and widespread deterioration of the Earth’s various ecosystems. Wilson includes a compelling array of facts, but the true significance of these facts?...
...enough, the album’s first single. “Uniform” and “On” are reminiscent of the ballads on “Silent Alarm” like “So Here We Are” and “This Modern Love,” dabbling with more sappy lyrics. Although not the strongest track on the album, “Where is Home” makes the cut with its chorus alone. Okereke’s falsetto is so haunting that returning to the verses is disappointing. The last several...
...exactly five words!” he wrote in an e-mail after he taped the show, adding that he was “pretty nervous beforehand.” Most of the discussion focused on Pinker’s 2002 book “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”—a book on evolutionary psychology—as Pinker struggled to explain his beliefs about brain function while Colbert joked and interrupted him. Colbert also poked fun at Pinker’s 2003 move from MIT to Harvard...