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...unique language of comix. The panels, which essentially frame a finite period of time, begin to overlap. Glenn steps out of the panel border and walks around to another panel. Soon Glenn has come up with a fairly reasonable argument for how time is illusory. Huizenga takes the quasi-profound day-dreamy musings of an average guy's walk down the street and puts them into...
...chronic shortages. Industries, families, whole economies (like that of Japan) have learned to be far less profligate in their use of energy since the price shocks of the 1970s. Fair point. Yet it is foolish to imagine that the end of the era of cheap oil will not have profound impacts on the way the world is ordered. Already, it is changing the geopolitical balance, emboldening Iran, and convincing Russian leaders that their country may not, after all, be the great loser of the age. And look at China. Now a net importer of oil, its companies are involved...
...center of my interest is physics and its profound involvement with the philosophy, art, wars, and politics of the last hundred years,” he wrote. “Since I was an undergraduate I’ve wanted to think about the ideas of physics and how they meshed and clashed with ideas from the humanities...
...What I took away from this was less a conclusion about which side stood on the strongest logical foundations than a profound sense that up till then I had reached a position without taking the journey to get there. This sense was heightened when I got married and got pregnant the first time, by which time technology had made the philosopher's hypothetical real: I heard the heartbeat, strained to see the image on the ultrasound, made out the features, like my womb had a window-and grieved at a miscarriage. If life, at this tiny, unimaginable stage...
...world, accused of being a ruthless businessman, has confounded his critics and become an excellent global campaigner. Bono has the rare ability to affect many, not only with his music but also with his deeds. Such people and the initiatives they have undertaken will have a profound effect on millions of lives. Mohit Salhotra Bombay I was very pleased with Time's choice. The Gateses and Bono are breaking through people's apathy about the poverty that kills millions every year. That trio is waking us up to the world's problems. Here is a son who lost a mother...