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...phenomenon. It's just emerging," epidemiologist L. Clifford McDonald of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told The Washington Post, one of the first publications to give the disease significant coverage. "We know it's happening, but we're really not sure why it's happening or where this is going...
...what's going on in the world. But maybe the problem is that they're too aware. In a world of endless woes, you can be overwhelmed into inaction. Or you can make, at some level, an arbitrary choice. That is where celebrities come in, because there is no phenomenon more arbitrary than celebrity. They are attention filters, the human equivalent of throwing a dart at a map. A pretty face and a famous name are a convenient excuse to focus on one problem in the midst of a thousand equally unignorable others. To give to Tibet and not Africa...
...notorious example of this phenomenon, A Tribe Called Quest’s debut single “Can I Kick It?” takes Lou Reed’s “Take a Walk on the Wild Side,” relatively unadorned, as its beat. Unsurprisingly, the lines about “colored girls” singing didn’t make the transition, but the laid-back bass line survives amid Afrocentric lyrical nuggets...
...stage and his palms are sweaty when I shake his hand. Though Boston is the last stop on the twenty-city “Hell’s Winter” tour, opening up to packed club on Saturday night is a still a relatively new phenomenon for Cage...
...Film,” Biblical themes have been present in the American cinema since the silent era. However, in the past, these movies either aimed for a broad audience or were “movies by the faithful made for the faithful” with a limited distribution. The phenomenon of explicit Christian media in mass culture and of marketing that specifically targets Christians is a new one.“The churches have discovered that they’re in competition with leisure society,” Stevens says. “The [Christian] Church has decided that it?...