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...Bush Administration prefers to paint the War on Terror in stark terms of good and evil, but the reality is not all terror suspects are considered equal. That much was clear on the same day that the nation solemnly recalled the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, when a federal magistrate recommended freeing a man being held on immigration charges who is also awaiting retrial in Venezuela for the bombing of a Cuban airliner 30 years ago that resulted in the death of all aboard, including the Cuban national fencing team...
...Appartement 217 was renovated by the architect Arnaud Montigny (who did Colette) to appear loftlike and informal. Everything is organic (apart from the furniture?"I couldn't find anything stylish," he says), ranging from the naturally pigmented paint on the walls to the mineralized water to the terry-cloth robes made from organic cotton. Nevertheless, Jaulin has avoided the Zen music trap, dismissing it as "not very Paris" and opting instead for a mix of rhythm and blues played, sotto voce, over the speakers. "The point of this place is to experience well-being, lightness and joy, and I want...
...wealth and comfort can be observed in the current evangelical brawl over whether comfortable megachurches (like Osteen's and Warren's) with pumped-up day-care centers and high-tech amenities represent a slide from glorifying an all-powerful God to asking what custom color you would prefer he paint your pews. "The tragedy is that Christianity has become a yes-man for the culture," says Boston University's Prothero...
...else boosts math scores? Well, don't laugh, but teaching on a whiteboard with dry-erase markers is better than blackboards with chalk. Students can simply see better. Another study showed that humming fluorescent lights are particularly hard on students - they make gifted students test "ungifted." And light blue paint on the walls of a kindergarten lowered misbehavior...
...Hitler analogies are, of course, generally bad for democratic debate. They tend to stifle rational thought, paint one's opponents as Nazi sympathizers and appeasers, and reduce the complexity of foreign policy to a simplistic appease/don't appease framework...