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...where is the great wilderness of science, the frontier of the known universe? I think of the major scientific fields as blots of ink on a pristine white cotton-blend paper. As the inkblots themselves expand, the remaining unsullied stretches of undiscovered phenomena exist just where these blobs are about to merge with one another. The edges, the boundaries, the regions straddling two expanding scientific enterprises represent the cross-disciplinary jackpots of the 21st sanctuary. These are the wild fields, the fields in flux, the fields that make you want to ride on out on the range...
...collateral damage" took on frightening new meanings. Economists became psychologists: Will American consumers fall victim to a collective post-traumatic stress disorder, too stunned to buy exports from Asia? Financial analysts put aside their valuation models to study troop movements, diplomatic machinations and the mind-set of Islamic terrorists. Phenomena like China's entry into the World Trade Organization are still of importance. But for Asia and the rest of the world, the chief variable in any economic forecast...
...Phenomena Tour...
...think this bothers him. Stefan and I may not have chosen for each other, but we have chosen for Milo." The rise of unmarried women, particularly those in their late 30s and 40s, who decide to raise a child on their own is one of the most striking social phenomena of recent decades, with celebrities like Madonna (pre-Guy Ritchie) bringing single parenthood out into the open. In general the stigma attached to unmarried women raising children is fading. "I think there is a different climate today," says Alison Garnham, Director of Policy for the London-based National Council...
...York Times' barrage of census stories. One of those landed so high on the page last week that Scott Shuger, longtime author of Slate's Today's Papers, dubbed it "an August news drought classsic." Television, meanwhile, scours the arid landscape for naturally sprouting (and hopefully telegenic) phenomena like the heat, sharks, or Al Gore's beard. On a good day, says Washington Post media maven Howard Kurtz, "they're hoping for a tropical storm that turns into a hurricane...