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...faithfully these were praised by subsequent advocates of self-improvement, and he would likely have been even more amused by the humorists who later poked fun at them. In a sketch with the ironic title "The Late Benjamin Franklin," Mark Twain gibed, "As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms. The sorrow that that maxim has cost me, through my parents experimenting on me with it, tongue cannot tell. The legitimate result is my present state of general debility, indigence, and mental aberration. My parents used to have...
Accessible from Market and Chestnut streets is Franklin Court, site of Franklin's home. Completed in 1766, the house was an object of great pride for Franklin, particularly the third-floor music room. Franklin chose this site for its strategic and symbolic value; determined to honor his leather-apron roots, he built the courtyard on a spot that lay squarely between posh and working-class neighborhoods. After he died, Franklin's grandchildren razed the place, thinking the property was worth more than the home. In 1976 architect Robert Venturi's ghost structure--a beam outline (to scale) of the home...
...well (sigh). I guess the jibes are inevitable. I guess us New Jerseyans just have to accept the fact that our state will always be the object of derisive humor, that it will consistently get slighted in deference to New York City—and, most annoyingly, that there will always be ungodly traffic on the Parkway during Fourth of July weekend...
...part because scripture readings with Bono and the grassroots take-up of the Jubilee movement for debt relief have helped change the religious right's take on aids in the developing world: what was once seen by the religious right as a shameful "gay disease" has become a suitable object of Christian mercy. There are limits, though. Last week poor countries meeting at the World Trade Organization in Geneva expressed "disappointment and frustration" at Washington's ongoing blockage of an agreement assuring cheap access to drugs for the developing world. American pharmaceutical companies claim they are willing to provide...
...wind turbine may be up to 80 m in diameter, a tidal stream turbine need be only 10 m across to produce 50% more energy. Though the blades turn slowly, just 10 revolutions per minute, the rotation generates a great deal of torque - a force that causes an object to rotate. That is then turned into energy via a hydraulic accumulator, which condenses the power into a motor that drives the generator. David Baird, managing director of Babtie, the engineering group that is working with Ayre, thinks tidal stream power has a big future. "Twice a day the North...