Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, melodies have taken a back seat on Come To Daddy. Fans of the dark, spectral soundscapes on James's masterly Selected Ambient Works Volume II will lament the lack of comparable melodic beauty. Slower tracks such as "Flim" don't stand up as well on repeat listens, although they serve as welcome breaks between the aural roar of the louder songs...
...march into the 21st century, let us not repeat the errors of the 19th. Two centuries ago the "white man's burden" was to help his little brown brothers around the globe learn the superior ways of the West. Today, America has taken up the same burden under a new name, "universal human rights." But the world does not agree on a universal definition of human rights. And who are we to insist that China embrace our definition based upon our morality...
...Mind Works offers a smooth and surprisingly pleasant ride over some pretty rugged intellectual terrain, it is because Pinker writes in the same breezy style that brightens his classroom lectures. He likes to quote Mae West ("Men like women with a past because they hope history will repeat itself") and Woody Allen ("I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics"), along with linguist Noam Chomsky, artificial-intelligence guru Marvin Minsky and, of course, Charles Darwin. Pinker has a showman's sense for knowing "when to hold his reader's attention with an illustration or a joke," observed...
Mind you, I am not saying history can't repeat itself. However, the backdrop is strong enough right now that I would view an 8% decline as buyable. Any change in the course of interest rates, the personnel in charge of our economy or the broad participation of the majority of stocks would cause me to reconsider. Barring that, the next time I see a dip like that of Friday before the Crash of '87, I'll bet that waiting for a Black Monday to buy will be too late...
...conceived from a frozen egg. It may stop altogether if turns out doctors can replicate a new technique that freezes a woman's eggs without rupturing the cells. A few other researchers worldwide had announced similar results over the past decade, but no one had successfully been able to repeat the experiment. If the procedure invented at Atlanta's Reproductive Biology Associates clinic holds up, women could freeze eggs while in their early twenties, when they are the most fertile, and have their children much later in life. While this frees women from many of the biological constraints that currently...