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...oddly universal. After-school hours and summers are spent in stifling classrooms memorizing road signs by shape, learning hand motions that became obsolete with the invention of the turn signal, and watching movies such as “The Nightmare After Prom” and “Red Asphalt.” It’s not uncommon to have a creepy teacher like mine, who carried three cell phones and two pagers with him at all times and frequently asked me to drive him to the mall during my lessons. Our most memorable interaction: He once told...
...this happen? It's true that state and federal politicians have for too long put off raising taxes to deal with these problems. (In October of next year the federal highway fund is expected to go into the red, forcing the issue.) It hasn't helped that prices of concrete and asphalt have spiked in recent years as India and China have poured money into their road systems. But those are just excuses. The real problem is bigger and simpler...
...important for the brain to know some memories are similar to each other--the pleasure of eating raspberries is much like that of eating strawberries, for example. But it's also important to be able to distinguish memories that are similar but not identical--eating another kind of red berry could make you sick. This ability is known as pattern separation...
...auspicious time of 8:08 p.m. on Aug. 8, precisely one year before the Olympic Games are to open in Beijing, China held a celebration of the coming festivities in Tiananmen Square. The Gate of Heavenly Peace, where Mao Zedong's portrait still hangs, was bathed in red and gold light for the event, which featured intricately choreographed dance routines, multiple pop stars and, of course, fireworks...
...backdrops are colored by Norman Rockwell, the soul of the Iowa caucus belongs to the heirs of Saul Alinsky and Phyllis Schlafly--the committed political organizers who have meant more to democracy than a hundred miles of red-white-and-blue bunting. Iowa is all about the power of small, highly motivated groups to influence politics beyond their raw numbers. And that's an American story as eternal as the Boston Tea Party, the abolitionists and the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott...