Word: preservationism
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In his column "Where's The Outrage?", about the Senate confirmation hearings of Attorney General--designate Alberto Gonzales [Jan. 17], Joe Klein wondered why there was no outrage over the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo and elsewhere or over Gonzales' complicity in the Bush Administration decision to...
Coleman also noted that Google’s digitization project does not involve fragile materials, adding another reason why the restoration of the library’s collections is a “critical” priority—the very materials most in need of preservation cannot go digital...
When Jigme Singye Wangchuck was crowned king of the Himalayan nation of Bhutan in 1972, he declared he was more concerned with ?Gross National Happiness? than with Gross Domestic Product. This probably didn?t come as a surprise to the forest-laden country?s 810,000 to 2.2 million (estimates...
So far, so good. But what does it mean? Tononi speculates that instead of strengthening neural connections responsible for a given task, as appears to happen during the day or in REM sleep, slow-wave sleep actually indiscriminately weakens the connections among all nerves. The idea sounds counterintuitive, but it...
It is not impossible to envision a Widener that allows for public visitors. As Battles points out, the expanding collection now stretches far beyond the original building, which houses a paltry three million books of HCL’s 13 million strong collection, distributed over about 90 institutions. â?...