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...let’s be clear, under the new budget paradigm, the dean claims the right to do so,” she said...
...Fundamentally a contemporary war novel, “The Surrendered” derives its plot from a scrutiny of the most basic of human experiences—love and conflict. Though beleaguered with a requisite love triangle and sometimes seized by paroxysms of sentiment, the novel is a paradigm of narrative layering—a finely crafted story that revels in stripping away an illusory front of beauty to expose the brutality beneath...
...Tigers have never before been reintroduced to the wild. This is partly because scarce conservation resources are usually devoted to what Tilson calls "a failed strategy": protecting what few tiger habitats remain. "There needs to be a new paradigm," says Tilson. His answer? "Let's create wildernesses, as opposed to trying to protect the little fragments that are left." Hopes for resurrecting the South China subspecies rest largely on a captive population of 67 tigers, held in zoos across China. It will be challenging. Derived from just six animals - two male, four female - caught between 1958 and 1970, they...
Moonshine, that most illicit of drinks, is shedding its hick reputation, and making it is becoming a popular (and illegal) project for do-it-yourself hobbyists eager to distill their own hard liquor. Into this new paradigm steps journalist Max Watman, whose new book, Chasing the White Dog, chronicles hooch's colorful history and its place in modern culture. Watman talked to TIME about his moonshine misadventures and the difficulties of producing or procuring illicit booze...
Rather than the war of terror, the current paradigm for the strategic relationship between America and Israel is the cold war against Iran and its allies - Hamas, Hizballah and Syria - for Middle East supremacy that began after the invasion of Iraq. On a military level, ties between America and Israel have never been stronger - the two countries staged their largest ever joint military exercise last year. But most Americans don't really want to be part of a war for Middle Eastern supremacy - they want the U.S. out of Iraq and Afghanistan as quickly as possible and for their government...