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...screen. China and India, to cite the two giants that comprise 1 in every 3 of the world's people, have recently begun to embrace the opportunities of the global marketplace and the conveniences of e-reality (and, of course, it is often engineers of Chinese and Indian origin who have made these new wonders possible). Yet for all that connectedness on an individual level, the Chinese government remains as reluctant as ever to play by the rules of the rest of the world, and Indian leaders make nuclear gestures as if Dr. Strangelove had just landed in Delhi...
...PHILIPPINES Hostages, terrorism, apparent origin of Love Bug. Imelda's shoes weren...
...away from an intense conversation is good stuff. And, while we're on dining hall conversation topics, I'd also like to offer my appreciation for the folks who talk about really random stuff in really loud voices. The other day I overheard a very heated argument about the origin of the word pencil. Hmmm. That's great procrastinating trivia. I appreciate...
...Norse artifacts haven't been discovered south of Newfoundland--but aside from a Norse penny, minted between 1065 and 1080 and found in 1957 at an Indian site near Brooklin, Maine, nearly all of them have turned out to be bogus. The Newport (R.I.) Tower, whose supposed Viking origin was central to Longfellow's epic poem The Skeleton in Armor, was built by an early Governor of Rhode Island. The Kensington Stone, a rune-covered slab unearthed on a Minnesota farm in 1898 that purportedly describes a voyage to Vinland in 1362, is today widely believed to be a modern...
...woman shows (Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992) showcase the performer as much as the journalism, Kaufman is aiming for a more radical redefinition of what theater is capable of. The project, he says, "taught me something about theater that I had never really felt. And that is the origin of theater is a community talking to itself. It was a striking experience to think that perhaps in Greek times, when this started happening, it was about 'us,' or an idea of 'us.' It was a shock, really, to think, 'Oh, my God, so this is what theater is supposed...