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The concept of an institute for advanced study originated in 1930 with the founding of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, N.J., as a small, Ivory Tower refuge for leading scholars to study in an environment without formal courses or curriculum. The IAS is widely known as the...
Interspersed with these clinical accounts are dispassionate dialectics on sexuality and the human condition (Millet is French, after all). What's missing is any satisfying sense of what motivated her exploits, which even by libertine standards seem excessive. The most she offers is that she suffered from social awkwardness, which...
But holy places still have special power, this church not least among them. Muslims are specifically ensured the right to pray in the Church of the Nativity, a privilege dating back to A.D. 638. Israeli soldiers, swarming into Bethlehem last month as part of the campaign to crush the machinery...
Still smarting from the Senate's rejection of drilling for oil in Alaska, the Bush Administration is gearing up for its next big energy battle. This week the Environmental Protection Agency will issue a crucial report on a plan to extract natural gas from an area in the Rocky Mountains...
There is a possible solution to the whole zoo conundrum: consolidation. Close down all the little local zoos and amusement areas; animals living at many of them are kept in terrible conditions. Then, open (or expand) three or four major, well-funded and -staffed refuge-style zoos. We can use...